Identifiant du topic: HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01-01

Research infrastructure concept development

Type d'action : HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Nombre d'étapes : Single stage
Date d'ouverture : 19 janvier 2022
Date de clôture : 20 avril 2022 17:00
Budget : €20 300 000
Call : Developing the European research infrastructures landscape, maintaining global leadership (2022)
Call Identifier : HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01
Description :

ExpectedOutcome:

Projects are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

  • sound science cases for new research infrastructures, including expected scientific breakthrough, gap analysis and feasibility/design studies to support planning and decision making at the national level (e.g. funding bodies, governments) and at European level (e.g. ESFRI);
  • a better alignment of the development of the research infrastructure landscape with the advancement of excellent science and frontier research;
  • new services and access opportunities available to the research community, allowing to better tackle scientific and societal challenges.

Scope:

This topic aims at supporting the development of new concepts for the next generation of research infrastructures of European interest[1], single/multi sited, distributed or virtual, that none or few countries might individually be able to afford. All fields of research can be considered.

Major upgrades of existing infrastructures may also be considered if the end result is significantly transformative and equivalent to a new infrastructure concept.

Proposals for RI concept development will tackle all key questions concerning the technical and conceptual feasibility of new or upgraded fully fledged user facilities.

In this respect, proposals should address all following aspects:

  • demonstrate relevance in relation to ERA, including to the existing landscape, and the advancement with respect to the state-of-art of the new infrastructure;
  • highlight the research challenges the new research infrastructures will make possible to address, including at global level;
  • indicate the gaps in the research infrastructure landscape the new infrastructure will cover and the synergies with existing infrastructures at European and global level, including those co-financed from other EU instruments (e.g.: Cohesion policy);
  • indicate, when relevant, the potential impact of the new research infrastructure at regional level.

Proposals should also provide evidence that the project will effectively:

  • identify technologies and develop research infrastructure architecture (e.g. single site or distributed, …);
  • identify scientific user communities (and their related needs) that will benefit from access to RI services, including scientific data and instrumentation, and develop the planning of research services to users;
  • identify governance options and strategic approaches for institutional/stakeholders’ commitment and engagement;
  • develop initial financial plans for the RI construction (or major upgrades) and operation as well as preliminary ideas for long-term sustainability, including synergies with other funds and programmes (e.g.: ERDF);
  • develop plans for an efficient data curation and preservation and for the provision of access to data collected or produced by the future infrastructure, in line with the FAIR principles.

Proposals considering just a new component of a research infrastructure are not in scope of this topic.

When relevant, environmental (including climate-related) impacts as well as the optimisation of resource and energy use should be integrated in the concept development of new research infrastructures. In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement.

[1]A research infrastructure is of European interest when is able to attract users from EU or associated countries other than the country where the infrastructure is located.