During the spring of 1988, the Blanes Advanced Studies Centre (CSIC) created the newly Nuclear Astrophysics Group with the aim of acting as an incubator center for new multidisciplinary groups. Over the years, this scientific group increased in members and, thus, decided to be renamed as the Science of the Cosmos Group. In 1996 and as a consequence of the creation of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), the Science of the Cosmos Group moved to the IEEC's premises, located in the city of Barcelona, to constitute the first scientific working group. By the end of 1999, the CSIC created the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE) to administratively articulate their participation within the IEEC. As an institute of the CSIC and a unit of the IEEC, the Institute of Space Sciences aims to contribute significantly to the scientific and technological research, doing science of and from space. By this, the institute is putting special emphasis on nstrumentation on board satellites as well as all the technical aspects involved in such projects. Within this frame of work, he ICE is active in the following disciplines: Astrophysics and Cosmology Earth Science Fundamental Physics