The inauguration of the provisional site of IMDEA - Materials will be held on October 30th, at 12:00 h, in the E.T.S de Ingenieros de Caminos.

Science at the service of Society

The Community of Madrid has created a network of 10 R&D centres in cooperation with universities, research centres and companies in order to improve the welfare of the people of Madrid and its regional competitiveness.

IMDEA is the Community of Madrid’s new institutional framework that combines public and private support for science and directs top-quality research towards the demands of the market, encouraging the private sector to participate in the design of science. It also wants to give greater international visibility to the science and research carried out in Madrid, promoting excellence in R&D and the transfer of its results to society.

The renowned North American artist and illustrator Cory Ench is the author of fractals

The European Research Council, an institution recently created in the EU to finance projects with strictly scientific criteria has elected its two first Secretary-Generals.The German Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker will hold the post from January 2007 to July 2009.

Over the next four years 200 internationally recognised researchers and 400 young researchers will join these ten institutes for Advanced Studies in science and technology