The ICTS SOCIB offers access to the scientific, industrial and technological community to its outstanding facility, the SOCIB Metocean Data Repository, as well as to the Glider Fleet and the Research Vessel R/V SOCIB
Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS) refers to cutting-edge R&D&I infrastructures that provide services for the development of cutting-edge research of the highest quality, as well as for the transmission, exchange and preservation of knowledge, technology transfer and the promotion of innovation.
Their ultimate goal is to provide the national and international scientific, technological and industrial communities with avant-garde scientific and technical infrastructures, essential for the development of competitive and quality research, being those technical means that are unique or exceptional in their kind, and whose importance and strategic nature justifies their availability for the entire R&D&I community.
The ICTS have three fundamental characteristics:
- They are publicly owned infrastructures, i.e., they belong to or are managed by public entities, either dependent on the General State Administration and/or the Autonomous Communities.
- They are open to competitive access by the entire research community, from both the public and private sectors.
- They are singular, which means that they are unique in their kind.