Last Wednesday, February 18th, Lorena Heras Sedano, responsible for the General Directorate for Universities and Research of the Madrid Regional Government visited the premises of the IMDEA Software Institute with Juan Ángel Botas Echevarría, Deputy Director for Research.

The visitors were given a guided tour of the premises and they met personally the Institute’s research team. Several researchers presented the goals and some of the advances attained in the different research lines of the Institute and the ongoing research projects, as well as their practical applications and other industrial collaboration and technology transfer activities.

They also visited the Microsoft - IMDEA Software Joint Research Center and the Madrid Co-location Center of the ICT Labs KIC of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. This co-location center is also the headquarters of this KIC in Spain, and it is coordinated by the IMDEA Software Institute and located in its premises.

In the picture, from left to right:

• María Alcaraz, General Manager of the Institute.
• Juan Ángel Botas Echevarría, Deputy Director for Research, Madrid Regional Government.
• Lorena Heras Sedano, General Director for Universities and Research, Madrid Regional Government.
• Manuel Hermenegildo, Director of the Institute.
• Manuel Carro, Deputy Director of the Institute.