The IFMIF-DONES España Consortium took part in the International Particle Accelerator Conference 2026, held in Deauville (France) from May 17 to 22. This event is the leading global conference on particle accelerators, bringing together more than 1,400 experts from scientific institutions, international laboratories, and technology companies. The IFMIF-DONES delegation was composed of Manuel Gutiérrez, Jorge […]

 IFMIF-DONES successfully held on 20–21 May 2026the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for Buildings 3.1 (Layout and Site Infrastructure), 3.2 (Main Building), and 3.3 (Auxiliary Buildings), marking a key milestone in the project’s progression towards the Final Design phase. The review process, conducted in accordance with the programme governance framework and established design review procedures, confirmed the […]

Our Acting Director, Moisés Weber, participated in the opening of the COSIRES (17ª  International Conference of Computer Simulation of Radiation Effects in Solids), taking place from May 18 to 22 at the Higher Technical School of Civil Engineering, Canals and Ports of the University of Granada. Este encuentro científico analiza los recientes avances y logros en […]

Loreto Valenzuela Gutiérrez, engineer and scientist at IFMIF-DONES España Consortium, has received the Special Mention from the Andalusian Women Leaders Forum during the 6th Granada Awards for Female Entrepreneurship and Leadership ceremony, held yesterday in Motril and organised by the Motril City Council, Combo Comunicación and the Association of Municipalities of the Costa Tropical. These […]

On April 27–28, a delegation from the European Spallation Source (ESS) visited the IFMIF-DONES facilities in Escúzar (Granada) to reinforce technical cooperation between the two infrastructures and advance the identification of specific areas for collaboration. The ESS delegation included Ciprian Plostinar, Head of the Accelerators Department; Tom Shea, expert in Strategic Technologies; and Marcelo Juni […]

IFMIF-DONES has taken a further step in strengthening its global positioning by joining FUSE (Fusion Energy Sciences Exchange), the knowledge-sharing platform promoted by the International Atomic Energy Agency. This inclusion consolidates the Spanish infrastructure as a key player within the international fusion energy ecosystem. FUSE is a collaborative environment promoted by the IAEA that connects […]

The Head of Executive Office of the DONES Programme, José Aguilar, participated on 6–7 May in the third edition of Galicia Biodays, held in Vigo, one of the leading events in Europe in the field of biotechnology and life sciences. As part of the programme, José Aguilar took part in the roundtable discussion entitled “Scientific infrastructures and disruptive […]

The interim director of the IFMIF-DONES España Consortium, Moisés Weber, delivered on 6 May the lecture titled “The IFMIF-DONES project, key to fusion energy”, an outreach-focused talk highlighting the potential of this major scientific infrastructure. The lecture took place at 7:00 p.m. in the Salón de Caballeros XXIV of the Palacio de la Madraza, with […]

From 6 to 8 May, Granada hosted the Workshop on Management of Consortia and Singular Scientific-Technical Infrastructures, a technical and institutional meeting that brought together representatives from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, as well as managers and administrative teams from various consortia and singular scientific-technical infrastructures within the Spanish R&D&I system. The workshop […]

The EPICS Spring 2026 Collaboration Meeting, held from 20 to 24 April at Université Paris-Saclay (France), was attended by Lucas Maindive, a member of the Control Systems Engineering Section at IFMIF-DONES. The international event brought together leading experts in control systems for large-scale scientific infrastructures. The EPICS framework (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System), which […]