IMDEA Nanociencia is a private non profit Foundation created by initiative of the Comunidad de Madrid Goverment in November 2006, in order to shorten the distance between the research and society in the Madrid region and provide new capacity for research, technological development and innovation in the field of Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Molecular Design.
In 2007 the former Ministry of Education and Science of the Government of Spain decided to also fund part of the creation and equipment of an institute of Nanoscience in the Madrid autonomous region.
The Foundation is governed by a Board of Trustees, which has representatives of the national and regional administration, the Academic Institutions (Complutense, Autónoma and Politécnica Universities, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), industries, members of the Scientific Advisory Council, and experts in societal implications of nanoscience and technology transfer.
The Foundation governs the IMDEA Nanociencia Institute, a new in terdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the exploration of basic nanoscience and the development of applications of nanotechnology in connection with innovative industries. The IMDEA Nanociencia Institute is part of one of the strategic lines of the Campus of International Excellence (CEI) UAM+CSIC.