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.

• AA-RR - Authentication and Authorization Requester-Responder
• CATRE - RedIRIS Thematic Classification
• Foro ABUSES - Forum for security incident handling coordination among Spanish ISPs
• IRIS-Libre - Development of Free Software in the RedIRIS Community
• IRIS-MAIL - Working Group on e-mail Services
• PAPI - Federated Identity Infrastructure
• 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)