About us
Who runs IOAI Spain
Harbour.Space Institute of Technology is the organisation accredited by the IOAI for Spain. It runs the Spanish selection and registers Spain's team for the international final.
Accreditation
Accredited national organiser
The IOAI accredits one organisation per country. That accreditation is what allows a Spanish team to be entered in the world final, and it can be checked against the IOAI's own register.
Harbour.Space
An institution that teaches technology, entrepreneurship and design together
Harbour.Space is a private higher education institution specialising in the integrated teaching of technology, entrepreneurship and design. It has spent years taking students from school age to the top of the world's major informatics and artificial intelligence olympiads.
Exceptional talent deserves exceptional support, and that support should start early and cost the participant nothing.
2015
Founded
Barcelona
Main campus
3
Continents with a campus
60+
Countries students come from
Track record
Results at international olympiads
2026 · IOAI, Astana
2 silver · 1 bronze · 3 mentions
Spain's debut, with both teams selected and prepared by Harbour.Space.
2024 · IOI, International Olympiad in Informatics
Gold
Alejandro Vivero Puga, the first competitor born and trained in Spain to win gold in the olympiad's history.
2024 · ICPC World Finals, Luxor
Gold · 4th in the world
First in Europe, and the first time a European institution reached the top four, ahead of MIT, Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge.
2022–23 · SWERC, South Western Europe Regional
Gold · silver · bronze
Medals across all three categories of the South Western Europe regional programming contest.
Before this
Work in Spain
In 2023, Cód¡Go! brought programming to Spanish families alongside Leagues of Code, Harbour.Space's maths and computer science training platform, and encouraged more girls into the field. It was presented in Córdoba as part of the Tour del Talento, with Fundación Princesa de Girona and Banco Sabadell.
Coming cycles
Where we are going
What we want to build over the coming cycles. These are intentions rather than commitments: once a date or a venue is settled, it appears on that cycle's own page.
Widen the path
Improve preparation for the final national round and widen the qualifiers, so more students get further.
Add regional olympiads
Take the competition to the autonomous communities, up to 17 regional olympiads.
Reach more schools
Extend outreach in schools and secure continued funding for the IOAI Spain team.
Institutions
Who stands behind the selection
Harbour.Space runs the selection as the accredited organisation, and the IOAI is the body that accredits it. Partners of other programmes appear only on those programmes: no institutional endorsement is claimed here that is not confirmed in writing.
Collaborate
We are looking for allies in education and public administration
Taking this to national scale means reaching the right people in Spanish education and public administration. Any help making those connections is worth a great deal.