White Papers

CSIC Scientific Challenges: Towards 2030

What are the significant scientific challenges of the first half of the 21st century? Can we establish the priorities for the future? How should the scientific community tackle them?

These books present the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) reflections on 14 strategic themes established based on their scientific impact and social importance.

Fundamental questions are addressed, including the origin of life, the exploration of the universe, artificial intelligence, the development of clean, safe, efficient energy, or the understanding of brain function. The documents identify complex challenges in health and social sciences, and the selected strategic themes cover both fundamental issues and potential applications of knowledge.

Nearly 1,100 researchers from more than 100 CSIC centers and other institutions (public research organizations, universities, etc.) have participated in this analysis. All agree on the need for a multidisciplinary approach and the promotion of collaborative research to implement ambitious projects focused on specific topics.

These 14 “White Papers,” designed to serve as a frame of reference for the development of the institution’s scientific strategy, will provide an insight into the research currently being accomplished at the CSIC, and at the same time, build a global vision of what will be the critical scientific challenges over the next decade.

Una visión global de la pandemia covid-19: qué sabemos y qué estamos investigando desde el CSIC

This report, prepared by the CSIC´s Interdisciplinary Thematic Platform Global Health/Salud Global, brings together in open access the results of a year of research on SARS-CoV-2.

It shows the answers and solutions obtained by the 300 research teams of the CSIC Global Health Platform.

It addresses six aspects: prevention, disease, containment and diagnosis, therapies and vaccines, social impact and communication.

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Available in the catalog: 29/03/2021

Fernando Eguidazu Palacios; Antonio González Lejárraga

Publication year: 2015

Language: Spanish

Review in English not available....

Available in the catalog: 01/29/2016

Edition: Luis Caballero Zoreda; Pedro Mateos Cruz; Mª Ángeles Utrero Agudo

Publication year: 2009

Language: spanish; english; portugueses

Recent revisions in scholarship on the architecture of the Visigothic period, not least in the contributions to this book, suggest that we be unwise to draw too firm conclusions on the subject. Otherw...

Available in the catalog: 04/24/2013

Inés Calderón Medina

Publication year: 2011

Language: Spanish

With the death of Alfonso VII in 1157 and the coronation of his son Ferdinand II, began a new era in the history of the kingdom of Leon; an era which ended in 1230 when, upon the death of Alfonso IX, ...

Available in the catalog: 02/17/2012

Edition: Luis Caballero Zoreda; Pedro Mateos Cruz; Tomás Cordero Ruiz

Publication year: 2012

Language: Spanish

This annex of Archivo Español de Arqueología includes contributions that were presented to the scientific meeting, held at the Merida Institute of Archaeology in December 2008. These comprise studies ...

Available in the catalog: 10/26/2012

Ana Almagro Vidal

Publication year: 2008

Language: Spanish

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Available in the catalog: 06/23/2014

Edition: M. Velayos; F. Cabezas; P. Barberá; M. Fero

Publication year: 2015

Language: Spanish

Review in English not available....

Available in the catalog: 04/18/2016