The Spanish Association for Animal Reproduction, Artificial Insemination and new technologies (AERA) was formed in 1990 as a consequence of the joining of the two existing national societies of animal reproduction. In that same year, its standing rules were formed, defining the aims of AERA, among which there were the organisation of regular scientific meetings, the provision of scientific information to its members and the establishment of contacts and relations with other associations both national and international.

During its fourteen years of existence, AERA has organized different scientific meetings such as the VI, VII and VIII Jornadas Internacionales de Reproducción Animal that took place in Salamanca (1992), Murcia (1994) and Santander (1996), respectively. In Luso (Portugal), an agreement of cooperation is reached between AERA and the Portuguese Association for Animal Reproduction (SPRA) in 1993, resulting in the birth of the Iberian Federation of Animal Reproduction (FIRA). From that time on, the idea of unifying the independently organised congresses by AERA in Spain and by SPRA in Portugal, began to take shape. In consequence, the 1st Iberian Congress for Animal Reproduction was organized in Estoril in 1997. Since then, three more Iberian Congresses have taken place; in Lugo (1999), Oporto (2001) and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2003), including the collaboration of world prestigious researchers and clinicians in their programmes, so that the latest advances in the field of animal reproduction were updated among the participants, a major task for AERA.

From its setting up, until the year 2003, AERA has had only one President in the board of management, Professor Miguel Abad Gavin, responsible for the organization of Congress and of the different activities of our association. In the Congress held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, at the proposal of Professor Abad, Professor Emilio Espinosa Velazquez was appointed new president, being in charge, since then, of managing the association.

Nowadays, AERA has 110 members, mainly from universities and other different public bodies of research and private enterprises. The aim of the association is to increase as far as possible, its number of members so that the chances of scientific exchange raise, in order to build a prestigious association both in the national (domestic) and the international area, in accord with modern times.