The IO’s scientific culture unit participates to a greater or lesser extent in most of the scientific outreach initiatives carried out at the institute. Currently the most important initiatives are:

• Organization, publicity and search for candidates for the Photon Awards organized each year by the Institute of Optics.
• Introduction to Research in Optics and Photonics course, which in 2025 will be in its 34th edition.
• Technical assistance in the organization of conferences. We have experience in helping to organize different parts of conferences, such as the preparation and distribution of graphic material for the conference, the creation and maintenance of websites, resolution of incidents, management of spaces, catering, etc.
• Coordination of the Curie Colloquia, management of room reservations, posters, organization of travel, publicity, presentation of the conference and everything that is necessary for each conference. The colloquia usually hold 5 conferences per year.
• Support and implementation of dissemination workshops. On the occasion of international days such as the Day of the Girl and the Woman in Science or similar, we accompany the scientific staff to give talks to students of different ages. We also collaborate with other CSIC institutes to give joint talks.
• Coordination of the activities of the Science Week. This involves acting as an interface between the people interested in offering some activity of the institute and the scientific culture of the CSIC, the coordination of the spaces to be shared between the institutes of the center and the communication with the public that will attend the activities.

The institute has already created a user in EuroAxess to centralize the job offers that are announced there, as well as the possibility of announcing an offer on the Linkedin job search portal.

Some repetitive administrative tasks have been automated on the institute’s intranet, such as preparing reports for different calls for proposals or cross-referencing data from different sources for the scientific report.

It is also used as an internal information channel for the institute, such as the periodic publication of department reports or other information of interest to staff.

These developments were carried out at the request of the institute’s management or research staff.

Each year the scientific report of the institute is produced in a collaborative document so that it can be accessed and edited by several people.

Record of activities in the conscience of scientific personnel.

We have a Creality Ender 3 S1 printer in our office and we can print parts sent to us in stl or obj format or ask us to find them for you. We also have 3D editing programs such as Adobe Meshmixer or Blender but we are still learning how to create new parts with ease.