The women’s group ‘Women in DONES’, which works around IFMIF-DONES, has scheduled its first official activity for 25 April. WiD will make its public presentation at the DONES Xcitech School, held in Granada from 23-28 April. In fact, its co-director is a woman, Blanca Biel. The group’s initial meeting, which took place online with a […]

Blanca Biel (Zaragoza, 1975) holds a degree in Physics from the UGR (1999) and a PhD in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2006), and works as a full professor in the Department of Theoretical, Molecular and Nuclear Physics of the Faculty of Science at the University of Granada. She is currently co-director of the […]

The DONES Steering Committee, the highest governing body of the DONES Programme, has agreed to in its first meeting the start of the construction of the IFMIF-DONES scientific infrastructure in Escúzar (Granada). Representatives from 15 EU countries and Japan, as well as from the organisations EURATOM, EUROfusion and Fusion for Energy participated at the meeting held […]

Granada will host the first meeting of the highest governing body of the DONES Programme, also known as the DONES Steering Committee, on 16th March. The meeting will be attended by representatives from Spain, Croatia, Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Japan, as well as from […]

Granada, through its mayor, Francisco Cuenca, acknowledged on 10 March the efforts of the scientific community to achieve the arrival of IFMIF-DONES. “A reality that places us as one of the most important scientific capitals in Spain and will crystallise on 16 March with the first international summit of the highest governing body of the […]

The Andalusian Regional Government has commissioned the Parque Tecnológico de la Salud (PTS) to draw up the Strategic Plan to outline local and regional development around IFMIF-DONES, a scientific infrastructure of international relevance that is planned to be built with a global investment of 862.47 million euros in Escúzar. The Regional Minister of Development, Territorial […]

How would 12-year-olds explain what IFMIF-DONES is? At the Vicente Espinel Secondary School in Malaga, this challenge was put to the students during the “A look at Andalusia” conference organised last February. Chaimaly and María, 2nd B students at the school, were in charge of the work “IFMIF-DONES: the spectacular nuclear fusion project that is […]

On 16 February, the Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant Ripoll, visited the facilities of Tekniker, the technology centre specialising in Advanced Manufacturing, Materials and Surface Engineering, and ICT for manufacturing located in Guipúzcoa. During her visit, the minister visited the MUVACAS (Multipurpose Vacuum Accident Scenarios) project, which is being carried out by the […]

  Professor Arata Nishimura, Emeritus Professor of the National Institute for Fusion Science and the Graduate University of Advances Sciences, Japan, visited on February 6th the works of the first buildings of IFMIF-DONES, which are being developed within the framework of the DONES-PRIME Programme of CIEMAT and the Ministry of Science and Innovation. Professor Nishimura […]

We are happy to announce that to commemorate the Day of Women and Girls in Science, the group ‘Women in DONES’ (WiD) has been created. Several women scientists working in our team have launched this initiative, which aims to make the role of women in our project more visible. The first to join this group […]