ExpectedOutcome:Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:
wider, simplified, and more efficient access to the best research infrastructures available to researchers to conduct curiosity-driven research, irrespective of location;breakthrough and leading-edge research enabled by advanced research infrastructure services made available to a wider user community;improved and harmonised RI services and broader use of RI resources across the EU and Associated Countries deriving from the exploitation of synergies and complementarities;a new generation of researchers trained to optimally exploit all the essential tools for their research;cross-disciplinary fertilisations and a wider sharing of information, knowledge and technologies across scientific fields fostered by closer interactions between researchers active in and around research infrastructures;better management, including implementing FAIR data principle, of the continuous flow of data collected or produced by research infrastructures.
Scope:This topic aims at providing trans-national access (on-site or remote) and/or virtual access to integrated and customised RI serv...
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ExpectedOutcome:Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:
wider, simplified, and more efficient access to the best research infrastructures available to researchers to conduct curiosity-driven research, irrespective of location;breakthrough and leading-edge research enabled by advanced research infrastructure services made available to a wider user community;improved and harmonised RI services and broader use of RI resources across the EU and Associated Countries deriving from the exploitation of synergies and complementarities;a new generation of researchers trained to optimally exploit all the essential tools for their research;cross-disciplinary fertilisations and a wider sharing of information, knowledge and technologies across scientific fields fostered by closer interactions between researchers active in and around research infrastructures;better management, including implementing FAIR data principle, of the continuous flow of data collected or produced by research infrastructures.
Scope:This topic aims at providing trans-national access (on-site or remote) and/or virtual access to integrated and customised RI services for curiosity-driven research in wide scientific domains, offered by a wide range of complementary and interdisciplinary top level research infrastructures. Scientific domains are identified on the basis of a Multi-Annual Priority Setting (MAPS) exercise aiming at achieving a balanced coverage of scientific disciplines addressed under the INFRASERV destination as well as complementarities with Horizon 2020 ongoing grants offering access provision. Within identified domains, emerging areas of research can also be served. The MAPS follows the taxonomy used in the ESFRI Roadmap.
In 2023, the scientific domains called under this topic are:
Biosphere: terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems, including forest;Astronomy and Astroparticle physics;Arts and Humanities. An EU contribution between EUR 12.00 and 14.50 million for the first two domains and between EUR 8.00 and 10.00 million for the third domain, should allow the expected outcomes to be addressed appropriately.
Access also includes ad hoc users’ training and scientific and technical support. Training courses for using the infrastructures may also be supported. Training courses and ad hoc users’ training will prepare the new generations of researchers to properly exploit leading-edge RIs, and should provide them with appropriate skills for data stewardship.
Activities to facilitate and integrate the access procedures, to further develop the remote or virtual provision of services and to improve, customise and harmonise the services the infrastructures will also be supported.
While the main goal of this topic is access provision to existing services, limited development of new services, relevant to specific scientific challenges in the identified domains, can also be supported, including joint/cross-RI services, provided that the resulting services are opened and offered already under the actions (short term R&D) and that the long term sustainability of such services is ensured by the participant RIs. The long term R&D for new instrumentation, tools, methods and advanced digital solutions will continue to be supported under destination INFRATECH.
Proposals should adhere to the guidelines and principles of the European Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures[1].
Data management (and related ethics issues), interoperability, as well as the connection of digital services (e.g. data services) to the European Open Science Cloud, should be addressed where relevant.
Proposals should duly take into account major European or international initiatives relevant in the domain. Whenever appropriate, they should foster the use and deployment of (open) global standards.
Proposals should make available to researchers a very wide and comprehensive portfolio of complementary research infrastructure services, including data services, which are relevant for frontier research in the domain. To this extent, they should involve, as beneficiaries, affiliated entities, third parties, or external providers of purchased services, the necessary interdisciplinary set of research infrastructures of European interest[2] that provide such services. The inclusiveness of the portfolio of services offered by the proposal will be taken into account in the Excellence score. Proposals including only few of the research infrastructure services relevant to the scope will be scored lower.
Access could also be open, under certain conditions, to third countries’ researchers to work on global scientific challenges. Research infrastructures from third countries[3] may be involved when appropriate, in particular when they offer complementary or more advanced services than those available in the EU and Associated Countries.
Proposals should include an outreach and engagement plan to actively advertise their services to the research communities in the specific domains.
Proposals are expected to exploit synergies and to ensure complementarity and coherence with other EU grants supporting access provision.
Proposals should include the list of services/installations[4] opened by research infrastructures for trans-national or virtual access and the amounts of units of access made available for users. Further conditions and requirements relating to access provisions that applicants should fulfil when drafting a proposal are given in the “Specific features for Research Infrastructures” section of this work programme part. Compliance with these provisions will be taken into account during evaluation. In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement.
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/research_and_innovation/2016_charterforaccessto-ris.pdf
[2] 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. This includes ESFRI and ERIC infrastructures.
[3] See the Eligibility conditions for this topic.
[4] “Installation” means a part or a service of a research infrastructure that can be used independently from the rest. A research infrastructure consists of one or more installations.
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