The Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA) is an alliance composed of 16 technology centres and cooperative research centres belonging to the Basque Network of Science, Technology and Innovation, the Basque Government, the Councils of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa and the SPRI Group aimed at meeting the industrial challenges of Euskadi and to compete with the leading international organizations in research and technology development.

SOMMa is the alliance of Severo Ochoa Centres and María de Maeztu Units to promote Spanish Excellence in research and to enhance its social impact at national and international levels

The Biomedical Research Networking center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) is one of nine CIBER consortia in the country, created under the leadership of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) to promote research excellence and build a critical mass of researchers in the field of Biomedicine and Health Sciences.

The The Biomedical Research Networking Center of Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES) is a multidisciplinary research network with the main aim of fighting respiratory diseases by fostering excellence in research and transferring this quickly and safely to clinical practice.

The ETP Nanomedicine, an initiative led by industry and set up together with the European Commission is addressing the application of nanotechnology to achieve breakthroughs in healthcare.

The Spanish Nanomedicine Platform is an initiative that aims to bring together the main Spanish players in research, industry and administration, to promote a common strategy in this highly multidisciplinary area.

The EU NanoSafety Cluster is a DG RTD NMP initiative to maximise the synergies between the existing FP6 and FP7 projects addressing all aspects of nanosafety including toxicology, ecotoxicology, exposure assessment, mechanisms of interaction, risk assessment and standardisation.

Softcomp was born as a Network of Excellence (NoE) supported by the EU aiming to establish a knowledge base for an intelligent design of functional and nanoscale soft matter composites. From December 2009 it has a durable structure organized as a Consortium, which is self-financed by the partners.

NanoSpain, Spanish Nanotechnology Network, promotes the exchange of knowledge between Spanish groups working in different fields related to Nanotechnology and Nanoscience increasing collaboration among universities, research institutions and industry.

Photonics21 founded in 2005 – is a voluntary association representing the industry as well as research organisations and other stakeholders in the field of photonics in Europe.

The Spanish Technology Platform for Photonics, Fotónica21, includes key players in the sector in Spain. The Spanish platform born to coordinate national activities in the same way to those carried out in the European Technology Platform Photonics21.

The European Commission and the Strategy Forum ESFRI encourage the continued elaboration and updating of national roadmaps for research infrastructures in the Member States and Associated Countries. These are vital blueprints which allow countries to set national priorities and to earmark funds for their development and participation in pan-European research infrastructure activities.

Euro-BioImaging is a large-scale pan-European research infrastructure project on the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) Roadmap. Its mission is to build a distributed imaging infrastructure across Europe that will provide open access to innovative biological, molecular and medical imaging technologies for European researchers

COST Actions are science and technology networks open to researchers and stakeholders. They are set up to achieve specific objectives within their four-year duration, centred around the creation, diffusion and application of knowledge in the frame of the COST Action.

- CA 20101 - Plastics monitoRIng detectiOn RemedIaTion recovery (PRIORITY)

- CA21162 - Establishing a Pan-European Network on Computational Redesign of Enzymes (COZYME)

- CM1303: System Biocatalysis (SysBiocat)

- TD1204: Modelling Nanomaterial Toxicity (Modena)

- BM1405: Non-globular proteins: from sequence to structure, function and application in molecular physiopathology (NPG-NET)

- MP1404 - Simulation and pharmaceutical technologies for advanced patient-tailored inhaled medicines (SimInhale)

- CA17139 – European Topology Interdisciplinary Action (EUTOPIA)

- CA18103 - Innovation with Glycans: new frontiers from synthesis to new biological targets (INNOGLY)

The Advanced Materials and Nanomaterials Spanish Technological Platform (MATERPLAT) was created in 2008 with the purpose of fostering and promoting innovation in the R&D&I National System, as a key tool and instrument to improve and increase the competitiveness of the collective of Spanish companies, for which materials and nanomaterials, as well as their transformation processes are fundamental elements in the development and commercialization of their products and services. In order to do so, MATERPLAT aims to build and develop a framework of encounter and collaboration between the different agents of the Company, Science and Technology Spanish System interested in promoting research, development and the application of Advanced Materials and Nanomaterials.