This general term refers to all RedIRIS initiatives oriented towards improving the academic network, introduce new technologies and services, and contribute to technology transfer to the whole society.

• CATRE
  RedIRIS Thematic Classification
• CERT
  
• CSIRT.ES
  Forum CSIRT.ES
• DOCENCIA-NET
  
• FedSSH
  Federated SSH Access
• Foro ABUSES
  Forum for security incident handling coordination among Spanish ISPs
• GT-Schema
  
• IPv6-Day
  Working Activity aroung IPv6 World Day
• IRIS-ENS
  Working Group for the National Security Scheme in RedIRIS
• IRIS-Libre
  Development of Free Software in the RedIRIS Community
• IRIS-MAIL
  Working Group on e-mail Services
• IRIS-MMEDIA
  Multimedia coordination group
• PAPI
  Federated Identity Infrastructure
• PGP
  
• pkIRIS
  PKI Managament Software
• PTYOC
  Support for thesis and research projects
• TERENA
  Pan-European collaboration through TERENA
• URNreg
  Distributed management of Uniform Resource Names (URNs)