In addition to the Research Support Infrastructure Network (RIAIDT), as a USC researcher you will have access to a whole range of scientific and technical infrastructures and services offered by research centres and universities. Below is a brief list of the most outstanding ones.
Several CSIC Institutes, Centres and Units in Galicia offer scientific-technical services to members of public and private research organisations, many of them related to agricultural or marine biology, but also in the supercomputing or quantum field.
The list of resources also includes services from the universities of A Coruña and Vigo that are open to the entire research community
The Biological Mission of Galicia, a CSIC centre with offices in Salcedo (Pontevedra) and Santiago de Compostela, offers services such as plant quality analysis, molecular biology, experimental crop fields and greenhouses, germplasm bank and a specialist library.
The CSIC Marine Research Institute, based in Vigo (Pontevedra), has a Scientific-Technical Support Unit (UACT) that offers services such as ocean acidification analysis, analysis of greenhouse gases in natural waters, flow cytometry, chromatography and advanced omics, species identification and sequencing, microscopy and image analysis, or genomics and bioinformatics analysis, among others.
The CSIC Marine Technology Unit (UTM), also based in Vigo, provides support services for oceanographic research, such as autonomous underwater vehicles, on board the ships and platforms it manages. Specifically, the CSIC has the oceanographic vessel Mytilus, based in the port of Vigo, to carry out studies of marine biology and geology, and physical oceanography. The UTM-CSIC also has several OBS (Ocean Bottom Seismometer) and equipment for seismic prospecting in the sea.
The Supercomputing Centre of Galicia (GESCA) is part of the network of Singular Scientific-Technical Infrastructures (ICTS) accredited by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. It is managed by a foundation formed by the Xunta de Galicia and the CSIC; its work focuses on research and application of high performance computing and communications.
CESGA has advanced R&D&I infrastructures aimed at increasing the research and technological capacity of the scientific community and industry. With them, it can offer computing services, storage, communication services, access to application catalogues and libraries, and support equipment. CESGA is also leading the creation of a Quantum Technologies Pole, which will allow the development of research in this cutting-edge field in Galicia. It is necessary to register in the User Portal in order to use CESGA's services.
The Oceanographic Centre of Vigo is one of the nine centres that the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) has throughout Spain. The Vigo centre is the benchmark in Spain for SeaDataNet (Pan-European Infrastructure for Ocean & Marine Data Management), a distributed infrastructure for the management of marine data collected by more than 110 centres in 35 countries. Other services offered by the IEO at its Vigo centre include access to the Geoportal of the Spatial Data Infrastructure, to its specialist library and to its Open Access repository of documents on oceanographic research.
The Research Support Services of the University of A Coruña (UDC) are open to the entire scientific community, both public and private research organisations. It has units for water analysis, structural analysis, molecular biology, molecular spectroscopy, plasma-mass spectrometry, microscopy, chromatographic techniques, instrumental analysis techniques, and geochronology. It also offers training activities and consultation services.
The scientific-technical services of the University of Vigo and its research centres are for the exclusive use of UVigo research staff, except in the case of the Centre for Research in Technologies, Energy and Industrial Processes (CINTECX), which offers scientific-technological services to the entire scientific community, both public and private organisations. These services include several that are self-service (hyperspectral analysis equipment (vision system combined with spectroscopy); 3D scanners, for the creation of high-resolution 3D models; and 3D printing, by laser synthesizing) and others that are custom-designed by the centre's team: training in 4.0 technologies; prototyping and construction; modelling (models, optimization and prediction); and technological developments.