西班牙最大的致力于研究的公共机构，欧洲第三大机构，主要目标是发展和促进科技进步，推动西班牙和外国实体合作。涵盖从基础研究到知识转移到生产部门的各方面内容，在科技政策中发挥着重要作用，基本在西班牙各区有研究中心和研究所。它是西班牙科学研究和技术发展的国家机构，具有特殊的法律地位，拥有自己的资产和国库，职能和管理自主权，完全的法律行为能力和无限期。

Spain's largest public institution dedicated to research, the third largest in Europe, with the main objective of developing and promoting scientific and technological progress, promoting cooperation between Spanish and foreign entities. Covering all aspects from basic research to the transfer of knowledge to the productive sector, it plays an important role in science and technology policy, with research centres and institutes in basically all regions of Spain. It is a national institution for scientific research and technological development in Spain, with a special legal status, with its own assets and treasury, functional and managerial autonomy, full legal capacity and indefinite period.