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Quantum Spain promotes and funds a competitive quantum computing infrastructure to strengthen Spain’s scientific and technological base in quantum computing and its AI applications. It supports the national ecosystem with essential tools and resources. In 2023, Spanish authorities announced that southern Europe’s first quantum computer would be installed in Barcelona.

The plan supports AI learning in Spanish and co-official languages and goes beyond AI alone (Presidencia del Gobierno, 2023\[15]). It is partly implemented through the National Plan on Language Technologies, which includes initiatives to advance language technologies and AI in these languages. A key action is the creation of linguistic corpora composed of diverse texts such as novels, plays, film scripts, and press materials, helping train and improve AI language models.

The AI Regulatory Sandbox, developed in collaboration with the European Commission, is a digital space that seeks to connect competent authorities with AI development companies to jointly define best practices when implementing future European AI regulation, and ensure its application. The AI Sandbox will be implemented by two focus groups and they will work on the publication of initial guidelines. The initiative will include a quality label.

Three ENIA chairs focus on AI and agriculture/rural development: University of Murcia, University of Cordoba, University of Oviedo. Two of the ENIA chairs focus on the intersection between AI and climate and the environment: Sustainability and Decarbonised society (Polytechnic University of Catalunya) and Green Algorithms (University of La Coruña).

The objective of this Strategy is to generate an environment of trust regarding the development of an inclusive and sustainable Artificial Intelligence (AI), placing citizens at its heart. The National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, as stated by the Spanish prime minister S¡nchez, "seeks to place our country in the line of the leading countries in the research and use of a reliable Artificial Intelligence at the service of economic and social development, at the service of our development.

Through the initiatives proposed related with IA, the plan wills to promote new technical degrees and/or increase the number of places in existing university degrees and speed up procedures so that new university degrees can be launched more quickly, opening up the field of collaboration with other fields of knowledge, not to be restricted exclusively to instrumental training in technological skills.It is also necessary to promote the development of open training resources.

The Connected Industry 4.0 strategy is Spain's response to increasingly globalised, demanding and competitive markets. Altogether, eight core challenges and competitive requirements of Industry 4.0 are defined, where digital enablers play a vital role, e.g. optimisation of supply chains, flexibility and efficiency of production means, etc.

The public and private sector participate with their own initiatives to foster the use of IA within the D Generation programme. So far, until June 2023 8 initiatives are registered in the official website.

This strategy aims to articulate Spain's R&D&I strategy with EU's science and innovation programme, Horizon Europe.

This programme aims at fostering and retaining the research talent in the area of AI within Spain.

Provision to the Workers' Statute Law detailing employers' algorithmic transparency requirements.

This Notice is related to automatic parking systems in motor vehicles.

This programme will develop and offer basic and cross-cutting language services and transversal linguistic services for public administrations, offering better and closer services to citizens, through better and more citizen-friendly services, through applications based on artificial intelligence (AI) and language technologies (TL) such as voice assistants, automatic translators and conversational agents.

The Spanish Data Protection Agency oversees compliance with the legal provisions on the protection of personal data.

This programme is the measure N.20 of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (ENIA), under the Strategic Axis N.4 "Integrating artificial intelligence in value chains to transform the economic fabric" and aligned with the Social Challenge N. 2 "Fostering the ecological transition and the reduction of the carbon footprint".Spain leads the adoption of best practices in the development of sustainable models a has aligned the national AI strategy with the European Green Pact.

The term Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS) refers to leading R&D facilities that, individually or by coordinating several installations, provide services for pioneering and top-quality research, as well as for the transmission, exchange and preservation of knowledge, transfer of technology, and promotion of innovation.

Seven IA proyects related to IA Missions and Value chains integration. Spain Living Lab, IA Value Chains, IA Network Hubs, Agrifrood Platform, Smart Digital Health, Forest monitoring and disaster reduction (RETECHFOR), and Knowledge Heritage Network.

Global project for the promotion of the Spanish language, science and data economy.

The Spanish Language and AI (LEIA) project is an initiative promoted by the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE) that has had the initial support of Telefnica.

A National Action Plan for the advancement of Human Language Technologies (HTL) in Spain.