Sustainable European Research Infrastructures – A call for action

The European Commission has launched a debate with EU Member States on establishing a European action plan that will make European Research Infrastructures sustainable in the long term.

Discussions will be based on a document PDF icon published today by the Commission, outlining key issues the different stakeholders will need to address in the action plan.

These include:

– Synchronizing national research infrastructures roadmaps and their budgets
– Making Research Infrastructures available more broadly by establishing cross-border access schemes
– Launching large-scale pilots involving Research Infrastructures and industry
– Exploiting the data produced by European Research Infrastructures in a more strategic way
– Putting in place effective governance mechanisms at European level
– Finding ways to increasingly and more efficiently use the European Structural Investment Funds, the European Fund for Strategic Investments, and the InnovFin – EU Finance for Innovators programme for developing Research Infrastructures
– Promoting the international outreach of Research Infrastructures and using them as flagships for European science policy

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