Following the creation of the NyNA Consortium, whose first steps have been joined and supported by 35 leading research groups in Analytical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at a national level, and of which the Analytical-Nano group has been one of its main promoters, we begin the journey with some excellent news, such as the recent granting by the State Research Agency of the Thematic Network on Analytical Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies requested by our colleague José Manuel Costa. These grants are intended to create research networks to promote the complementarity of capabilities and optimize existing research resources. In this way, synergies are generated between research groups from different institutions. The scientific-technical activities to which these networks are directed must demonstrate their added value based on the achievement of common and shared objectives and the performance of activities that could not be financed through other instruments.

23 groups belonging to the Consortium are integrated into it, but our intention is that the remaining groups of the Consortium that are not integrated appear as groups associated with the Network. We are sure that the Consortium-Network symbiosis will be very beneficial.

As a fundamental instrument that will serve as a channel of information about the Consortium and other news related to Analytical Science and Nanotechnology (in its broadest and most transversal sense), we intend to make a quarterly edition of the NyNA Consortium Gazette, in addition to counting on specific contributions, mainly informative, from the research groups of the Consortium. We are sure that they will be of great interest to all of us who are part of it, today a total of 174 researchers.

On the other hand, and as one of the first joint activities of both the Consortium and the NyNA Network, the I Workshop (summer course) of the NyNA Consortium on Analytical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology will be held at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences and Technologies of the UCLM, in Ciudad Real, from May 26 to 29, 2025, and of which the Analytical-Nano group is an active part and promoter of its organization.

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