This upgrade was carried out as part of the renewal of the Anella Científica’s backbone equipment, funded by the European Union’s Next Generation EU funds through the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). In Spain, this mechanism is implemented through the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan. Specifically, the equipment renewal falls under the modernization and digitalization of the educational system within the UniDigital Plan, which dedicates a section to digital infrastructures.
The entity responsible for executing this section is the Ministry for Digital Transformation and of Civil Service, through its State Secretariat for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (SEDIA) and more specifically, its agency for promoting digital transformation, Red.es. Red.es assigned its department RedIRIS to carry out all the actions.