Identifiant du topic: HORIZON-INFRA-2024-DEV-01-03

Consolidation of the RI landscape – Individual support for evolution, long term sustainability and emerging needs of pan-European research infrastructures

Type d'action : HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Nombre d'étapes : Single stage
Date d'ouverture : 06 décembre 2023
Date de clôture : 12 mars 2024 17:00
Budget : €8 000 000
Call : Developing, consolidating and optimising the European research infrastructures landscape, maintaining global leadership (2024)
Call Identifier : HORIZON-INFRA-2024-DEV-01
Description :

ExpectedOutcome:

Project results are expected to contribute to several of the following expected outcomes:

  • better structured and strengthened European research infrastructure landscape;
  • new services available to a wider user community, including participants in other parts of Horizon Europe, allowing to better tackle scientific and societal challenges;
  • increased capacity to address EU policy priorities and/or support EU industry;
  • reinforced global competitiveness of the European Research Area;
  • reduction of environmental (including climate-related) impacts as well as optimisation of resource and energy consumption integrated through the full life cycle of research infrastructures;
  • increased long-term sustainability of European research infrastructures.

Scope:

This topic targets the consolidation of the EU RI landscape through the support, together with member countries, to the strengthening, long-term sustainability, reorientation or evolution of ESFRI Landmarks or other European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs). Its specific scope could however be further defined to address specific emerging needs identified and agreed at EU level. Activities aimed at ensuring long-term sustainability include enlargement of the membership or broadening the base of participating countries, international cooperation, revision of business/funding plan, development of managerial and technical skills for RI staff, and structuring and strengthening of national nodes. Support can also be provided to the development of solutions helping the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic consequences on service provision, such as extension of remote and virtual access, or on the management of the infrastructure itself. Activities for reorientation or evolution should fill gaps in the RI landscape, enabling the RI to address new research or societal challenges and/or serve new user communities, increasing and improving service capacity and/or integrating new resources/facilities. Proposals should explain any synergies and complementarities with previous or current EU grants.

Specific attention should be given, where relevant, to the greening of technologies and methodologies used by the research infrastructure, to the interaction with industry/SMEs, to the fostering of the innovation potential – including the social innovation potential – of the infrastructures, and to their integration into local, regional and global innovation ecosystems.