Severo Ochoa

The “Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa” Award is granted to organizational structures with highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge. They are among the best in the world in their respective scientific areas. The ICM has become the first research center in marine sciences to obtain such a coveted accreditation. The Award will be standing since January 2020 until December 2023.

The Award is granted after a though evaluation of the strategic plan for the 4 following years. Within this time-span, the ICM will incorporate 14 predoctoral and 6 postdoctoral fellows, will invest over 1 million Euros to reinforce our research activities, and will create a Research Support Office devoted to bolster structural areas of ICM: talent development, work enviroment, project management, internationalization, technological transfer and communication. All together will increase the center’s main indicators in terms of scientific outputs, social and economic impact, training activities, visibility and funding attraction.

ICM is strongly committed to provide equal opportunities to all scientific community, with special emphasis on gender aspects. The Severo Ochoa Accredtiation of Excellence at ICM is managed following the recommendations of ICM's Gender Equality Plan, with close collaboration with the LETsGEPS European Project, and all internal calls are monitored to guarantee that equality principles are strictly followed (more info).

The ‘Severo Ochoa’ Centres and ‘María de Maeztu’ Units of Excellence Alliance brings together all the awarded research entities setting new starndards in the Spanish research landscape. SOMMa aims at boosting national and international visibility of Spanish research, engage in outreach activities, foster the knowledge transfer, contribute to the Spanish science policy, attract outstanding scientific talent, and find synergies within the national research system to push forward Spanish science.