Sociedad Española de Cardiología

What Sociedad Española de Cardiología does

Sociedad Española de Cardiología (SEC) is a private non-profit professional medical society founded in 1944 and headquartered in Madrid, Spain, serving Spanish cardiologists, cardiology residents (MIR), and cardiovascular healthcare institutions. The society operates as the authoritative Spanish voice in cardiology, providing continuing medical education, peer-reviewed scientific publishing, clinical guideline translation, and professional networking through membership, congresses, and digital platforms.

SEC's core offerings span three integrated product surfaces: (1) Scientific publishing through REC Publications — a family of three peer-reviewed journals including Revista Española de Cardiología (established 1947, 75+ years of continuous publication), REC: CardioClinics, and REC: Interventional Cardiology; (2) Education delivered via Campus SEC (a learning management system hosting online courses and multi-year Master's programs priced 60–300 EUR for short courses), Learning Hub SEC, and in-person simulation training; and (3) Multimedia and community engagement through Canal SEC (live streams, focus sessions, talks), CardioPODCAST audio series, CardioTV video streaming, the Portal del Socio member portal, and mobile apps on iOS and Android. The society runs 11 specialized subspecialty sections covering the full range of cardiovascular medicine and hosts a major annual congress (SEC26 scheduled in Sevilla, October 2026).

SEC's revenue model combines individual membership fees, course and program fees, journal subscriptions, congress registration, and strategic sponsorship from seven major pharmaceutical and device companies (Abbott, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Daiichi Sankyo, Medtronic, Menarini, Novartis). The society maintains formal affiliation with the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), holds ISO 9001:2015 certification, and operates two affiliated foundations: Fundación Española del Corazón (FEC) for patient education and cardiovascular research, and Fundación Casa del Corazón as a publishing and administrative entity.

Name

Sociedad Española de Cardiología

Legal name

Sociedad Española de Cardiología

Website

https://secardiologia.es

Company type

Private

Founded year

1944

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sociedad Española de Cardiología (SEC) is a Spanish non-profit professional medical society founded in 1944 that serves cardiologists and cardiovascular professionals through peer-reviewed journals, continuing medical education, clinical guidelines, subspecialty sections, and an annual congress.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Medical Society Services

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (61131)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare & Clinical Professional Development (CME/CE) (EDAGANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Association & Society Conference Management (Nonprofit, Professional Bodies) (THAHACAA)

Keywords

• Professional medical society
• Cardiology education
• Medical publications
• Continuing medical education
• Scientific congresses

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership fees: Annual membership fees for cardiologists and healthcare professionals providing access to Portal del Socio, member benefits, and voting rights in scientific structures.
2. Educational programs: Revenue from master's programs, postgraduate courses, and practical training courses including Campus SEC online offerings and in-person simulation training. Course fees range from 60 EUR to 300 EUR per course.
3. Scientific publications: Sales and subscriptions to REC Publications journals, clinical books, consensus documents, protocols, and informed consents. Includes both physical and digital formats.
4. Pharmaceutical partnerships: Strategic partnerships with Abbott, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Daiichi Sankyo, Medtronic, Menarini, and Novartis for congress sponsorship, educational grants, and industry collaboration.
5. Congress and event registration: Registration fees for annual SEC congress, section annual meetings, and specialized symposia such as CardioTOX 26.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Sociedad Española de Cardiología (SEC) is a non-profit professional medical society that serves Spanish cardiologists and cardiovascular healthcare professionals through membership services, continuing medical education, peer-reviewed scientific publications, and annual congresses. The society operates a digital ecosystem spanning online learning (Campus SEC), multimedia content (Canal SEC, CardioPODCAST, CardioTV), three peer-reviewed journals (Revista Española de Cardiología, REC: CardioClinics, REC: Interventional Cardiology), and Spanish translations of ESC clinical guidelines. Revenue is generated through membership fees, course and master's program tuition, journal subscriptions, congress registration, and strategic pharmaceutical industry partnerships.

Product overview

Sociedad Española de Cardiología is a professional medical society, not a product company. Its offerings consist of membership services, educational programs, and scientific publications. The core offerings include Campus SEC (online learning management system), REC Publications (journal family), Canal SEC (multimedia platform with CardioPODCAST audio series), the annual Congreso SEC, clinical guidelines (Guías Clínicas), and the Learning Hub. These services are integrated through the main secardiologia.es portal and supported by the Canal SEC mobile app available on iOS and Android.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Revista Española de Cardiología: Primary peer-reviewed cardiovascular journal of SEC
• REC: Interventional Cardiology
• REC: CardioClinics
• CardioPODCAST
• Canal SEC
• CardioTV
• Campus SEC

Products and services

• Campus SEC Online education platform providing courses, master's programs, and postgraduate qualifications in cardiology for medical professionals, including multi-year master's programs (e.g., Máster Universitario de Avances en Cardiología 2026/2028) and short online courses.
• REC Publications Family of three peer-reviewed medical journals: Revista Española de Cardiología (75+ years), REC: CardioClinics, and REC: Interventional Cardiology, published by the society for Spanish-speaking cardiologists.
• Canal SEC Multimedia platform offering live broadcasts, on-demand videos (Focus, Talks, Flash), Cardio On Air episodes, and the CardioPODCAST series covering cardiovascular topics for healthcare professionals.
• Congreso SEC (Annual SEC Congress) Annual national cardiovascular congress bringing together cardiology professionals for scientific sessions, workshops, industry exhibition, and networking, with thousands of attendees.
• Guías Clínicas SEC (Clinical Guidelines) Clinical practice guidelines and consensus documents translating international ESC guidelines into Spanish for Spanish-speaking cardiologists, covering cardiovascular prevention, heart failure, valvular disease, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and more.
• Learning Hub SEC Educational resource platform for cardiology professionals offering access to online courses, certifications, and continuous medical education materials.
• SEC Membership (Portal del Socio) Annual membership program for cardiologists and healthcare professionals providing 24/7 access to the member portal, electoral participation, member benefits, and SEC resources.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3 peer-reviewed journals with international impact and 75+ years of continuous publication
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major, strategic and minor.

• Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 June 2026SEC and CNIC have consolidated their collaboration in cardiovascular research, innovation, and training. The SEC delegation visited CNIC facilities in June 2026 to strengthen joint initiatives in scientific research, training programs, and cardiovascular innovation projects.
• Federación de Asociaciones Científico Médicas Españolas (FACME)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSEC participates in FACME's interdisciplinary working group addressing the impact of environmental pollution on health. FACME coordinates multiple medical specialty societies including SEC to develop unified positions on environmental health issues.
• European Society of Cardiology (ESC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSEC is the Spanish national cardiac society affiliated with ESC. SEC publishes translated ESC clinical guidelines and supports Spanish candidates for ESC Board and Heart Failure Association (HFA) elections.
• Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición (SEEN)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSEC and SEEN jointly developed consensus documents on heart failure detection and management in obese patients, and on disease-related malnutrition and sarcopenia assessment in heart failure patients.
• Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica (SERAM)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSEC-SERAM collaboration produced joint recommendations for training, accreditation, and appropriate use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) in cardiology practice.
• AbbottstrategicGTM or Marketing PartnerStrategic partner listed among SEC's strategic partners and collaborators, supporting society activities and congress participation.
• AstraZenecastrategicGTM or Marketing PartnerStrategic partner listed among SEC's strategic partners and collaborators, supporting society activities and congress participation.
• BayerstrategicGTM or Marketing PartnerStrategic partner listed among SEC's strategic partners and collaborators, supporting society activities and congress participation.
• Daiichi SankyostrategicGTM or Marketing PartnerStrategic partner listed among SEC's strategic partners and collaborators, supporting society activities and congress participation.
• MedtronicstrategicGTM or Marketing PartnerStrategic partner listed among SEC's strategic partners and collaborators, supporting society activities and congress participation.
• MenarinistrategicGTM or Marketing PartnerStrategic partner listed among SEC's strategic partners and collaborators, supporting society activities and congress participation.
• NovartisstrategicGTM or Marketing PartnerStrategic partner listed among SEC's strategic partners and collaborators, supporting society activities and congress participation.
• Asociación Española de Vacunología (AEV)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with AEV, AEP, SEMERGEN, SEMG, SEMPSPH, SEPAR, SEGG, and SEC on flu and cardiorespiratory events consensus document. Project and publication funded by Sanofi-Aventis.
• TRAMA SOLUTIONSminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEvent management company serving as secretariat for SEC section annual meetings such as the XIII Reunión Anual de la Sección de Cardiopatías Familiares y Genética Cardiovascular 2027.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie (DGK): German national cardiology society running its own annual congress (Herztag), the 'Cardio News' publications, subspecialty working groups, and cardiovascular CME — directly comparable in scale, scope, and continental European context to SEC.
• British Cardiovascular Society (BCS): UK national cardiology professional society running the annual BCS Annual Conference, Heart journals (in partnership with BMJ), training and education programmes — direct functional analogue of SEC in another national healthcare market.
• American College of Cardiology (ACC): U.S. national cardiology professional society operating journals (JACC family), annual congress (ACC Scientific Sessions), lifelong learning/MOC programmes, and clinical guidelines. The closest functional analogue to SEC in a different national market.
• Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia (SPC): Portuguese national cardiology society publishing the Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia and running the Congresso Português de Cardiologia. Highly comparable national-society peer with overlapping Iberian clinical and regulatory context.
• Società Italiana di Cardiologia (SIC): Italian national cardiology society organising the Congresso Nazionale SIC and managing the Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia journal plus subspecialty sections. Directly comparable in scale and Mediterranean-European healthcare context.
• Société Française de Cardiologie (SFC): French national cardiology society publishing Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases, hosting the congrès francophone and Journées européennes de la SFC, and managing subspecialty working groups — closest geographic peer to SEC as a Romance-language sister society.

Broad incumbents

• American Heart Association (AHA): U.S. cardiovascular society combining professional membership with patient/public health missions, scientific journals (Circulation family), flagship Scientific Sessions congress, and guideline production — a broad-incumbent peer in scope and revenue mix.
• European Society of Cardiology (ESC): Pan-European professional cardiology society of which SEC is the Spanish national member society. Comparable as the umbrella issuer of clinical guidelines that SEC translates and as a peer provider of congresses, journals, and subspecialty associations (e.g., HFA, EHRA).

Emerging players

• Heart Failure Association of the ESC (HFA): ESC sub-specialty association focused on heart failure — directly comparable to SEC's own 'Insuficiencia Cardíaca' section as a competing subspecialty community delivering journals, congress content (HFA Congress), and HF-certified education.

Regional players

• Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica (SEPAR): Another large Spanish national medical specialty society collaborating with SEC on joint consensus documents (e.g., flu and cardiorespiratory events). Comparable as a Spanish-membership specialty society facing similar domestic market dynamics, although operating in respiratory rather than cardiovascular medicine.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/secardiologia
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sociedad-espa-ola-de-cardiolog-a
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/SECardiologia
• Instagraminstagram.com/secardiologia
• Facebookfacebook.com/cardiologia

Compliance1 record

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Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

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