Research infrastructures provide and open research opportunities and services to researchers in many areas also addressed by other Parts of Horizon 2020 within "Societal Challenges", "Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies" (LEIT), and “Excellent Science”. This is also reflected in the close links between several of the topics in Research Infrastructures and certain Focus Areas. Research Infrastructures also contributes to other cross-cutting objectives of Horizon 2020, such as climate action and sustainable development, biodiversity, social sciences and humanities, and gender equality.Furthermore, production-level e-infrastructures are able to serve the computing and data needs of any project in the framework programme fostering economies of scale in the use of ICT systems by projects supported by Horizon 2020.The Research Infrastructures Work Programme 2018-2020 contributes to the implementation of the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) Roadmap, through the support to the preparatory phase of the ESFRI projects identified in the Roadmap as well as targeted support to their implementation and operation.

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