For a second year, the Royal Society, FECYT and the Ramón Areces Foundation organised a new edition of "Networking Nations: Scientific Opportunities in the UK and Spain". The event was held in Madrid on 21 January 2014 in collaboration with the British Embassy in Madrid and the Spanish Embassy in London. This publication includes the sessions led by British and Spanish scientists who participated in this event which tackled one of the societal challenges of Horizon 2020: safe, sustainable and clean energy.

Through a selection of images, this publication summarises some of the treasures that the National Museum of Science and Technology exhibits and keeps at its new centre in Alcobendas. Visitors who go to the museum will enjoy a selection of over 500 pieces of scientific and technological heritage that can hardly be seen anywhere else in the country. The museum displays objects related to daily life, biotechnology, medicine, photography, cinema, the teaching of experimental science, astronomy, mathematics, navigation and topography. There is no lack of connection to art and interactivity.

This report studies the sources of funding of activities for innovation and it analyses internal R&D+I staff and the resources intended for training activities related to innovation. This Panel is the result of the joint effort of the National Institute of Statistics, the Cotec Foundation and FECYT, along with the advice of a group of academic experts.​ One piece of data included in this edition is that employment in R&D in 2012 in innovative companies increased with respect to the previous year.

This publication includes the results of a study carried out over two school years and more than 2,500 compulsory secondary education (ESO) students participated in activities promoted by FECYT and CosmoCaixa. The study provides data such as that outreach activities increase the number of young people interested in studying science or technology by almost 6% and that young people with poorer academic performance is the group in which there is the greatest increase in the number of children interested in studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) following outreach activities.

This publication includes the presentations at the First “Challenges of Scientific Policies in Spain” Round Table, held on 30 October 2014 at Georgetown University in Washington. In their different working areas, the speakers reflected on financing and the use of budgets for science, both at the central government and European government level and through public universities, foundations and public bodies and private foundations, as well as new collective financing initiatives, with the aim of increasing the participation and interest of citizens in science.