Catalunya faces a challenge for the next 25 years: making knowledge a national project

Over the past two decades, Catalonia has been at the forefront of one of Europe's most extraordinary scientific transformations. What was a bold bet in the early 2000s to build a modern, competitive, and international research system is today a reality recognized worldwide. We have created excellence research centers, attracted global talent, developed world-class scientific infrastructure, and positioned our institutions among the most competitive in Europe for resource acquisition and scientific output. This success was not the result of chance, but rather the outcome of a shared…