News archive - Research Infrastructures – European Commission Consultation on possible topics for future activities for integrating and opening existing national research infrastructures
The European Commission consultation, which was launched on 15 July and will run until 22 October 2012, seeks possible topics for future activities for integrating and opening national research infrastructures. More concretely, it aims to bring together and integrate, on a European scale, key research infrastructures, in order to promote their coordinated use and development; and to provide the users of research infrastructures with a harmonised, improved and optimised access to the best research infrastructures in a given field, independent of where the research infrastructures are located [EU Member States, Associated Countries or the international level] and by whom they are operated.
The consultation addresses stakeholders, e.g. operators of research infrastructures and user communities, in a bottom-up manner, in order to map possible future topics of Integrating Activities (IAs).
These activities would correspond to the follow-up of the successful Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) actions named "Integrating Activities" (see the list of FP7 funded projects), conditional to the approval of the European Commission proposal for the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020, by the EU Parliament and Council. The aim of these activities is to provide a wider and more efficient access to, and use of, the research infrastructures existing in EU Member States, Associated Countries, and at international level when appropriate.
The consultation is made in the form of a call for suggestion of possible topics, in order to help identify potential future topics for Integrating Activities. Topics will be proposed by research infrastructures stakeholders, e.g. operators of research infrastructures and user communities.
Source: EC Research & Innovation
- Europe
- Cross-thematic/Interdisciplinary
Entry created by Danaja Lorencic on September 27, 2012
Modified on September 27, 2012
