Research Infrastructures
"Enhancing and optimising RIs and their access by scientists and innovation developers is a key ingredient of competitiveness as well as a necessary basis for tackling the grand societal challenges." (ESFRI)
The European approach to research infrastructures has made remarkable progress in recent years with the implementation of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) roadmap, integrating and opening national research facilities and developing e-infrastructures underpinning a digital European Research Area. The Member States and the Associated Countries operate a diverse system of RIs ranging from well-established sectors like physics, astronomy, energy and materials science, mostly based on large single-sited laboratories, to the fast developing health, food, environment and cultural innovation sectors where novel architectures of RIs are being developed that build on distributed capacity and speciality.
Within H2020 the objective is to develop the European RIs for 2020 and beyond so as they become a new world-class RIs by integrating and opening national RIs of pan-European interest, development, and through deployment and operation of ICT based e-Infrastructures. This to foster the innovation potential of RIs and their human capital while also reinforcing European RI policy and international cooperation.
WBC-RTI.info is providing information on a number of Research infrastructures (RIs), important research facilities and research equipment in Western Balkan countries (but also EU-wide) collected in our RI database. This covers services, facilities, equipment and resources that are used by the scientific community to conduct a research in respective scientific fields.The Database is open for inputs. Private or public institutions who operate and maintain Research Infrastructure / important equipment are warmly invited to register (Examples: small, medium or large scale research installations, institutes and faculties with important research equipment and facilities, libraries, research databases, archives, high speed communication networks, networks of computers facilities, meteorological observation facilities, research vessels etc.).
Find below all information we published as far as the research infrastructures are concerned.
News
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RItrain Surveys on training needs of Managers of RIs
RItrain, the Research Infrastructure Training Programme -an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project aimed at professionalizing the training of managerial and leadership staff in Research Infrastructures- is surveying...
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Implementation Roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud
The European Commission announced on 14 March 2018 the adoption of the Implementation Roadmap for the European Science Cloud. Overall, the document presents the results and available evidence from ...
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ESFRI Roadmap 2018 will be presented in September 2018
ESFRI Roadmap 2018 is an update of the ESFRI Roadmap 2016 incorporating the results of the progress assessment of those ESFRI Projects that entered in 2008, the outcomes of the evaluation of new proposals...
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Events
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ResInfra@DR - Research infrastructure experts trainings
With the training attendance of important stakeholders - policy makers and agencies, hosts of research infrastructures as the universities, academies, sectoral agencies - this second training delivers...
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InRoad is a Horizon 2020 funded project that looks at research infrastructure decision-making, evaluation and funding practices in Europe in order to contribute to a better alignment of processes and ...
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ResInfra@DR WP3 Concluding Consultation Event
Work package 3 (WP3) of the ResInfra@DR project aims at contributing to improved policy steering and delivery.
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Organisations
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Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Founded in 1964 by the late Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, ICTP seeks to accomplish its mandate by providing scientists from developing countries with the continuing education and skills that they need to...
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The eight EIROforum organisations have extensive expertise in the areas of basic research and the management of large, international infrastructures, facilities and research programmes. It is the mission...
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The ERF-AISBL Association has the not-for-profit purpose to promote the cooperation and the projects between european-level research infrastructures which are open, at international level, to external...
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Calls
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CERIC-ERIC offers access through a single entry point to more than 50 different and complementary state of the art techniques and support laboratories, distributed in 9 countries, with the submission...
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Big Science Business Forum: call for bids as host open
Based on the success of BSBF2018, the Big Science organisations of BSBF (CERN, EMBL, ESA, ESO, ESRF, ESS, European XFEL, F4E and ILL) have now decided to call for bids from interested parties to become...
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The ResInfra@DR invites qualified evaluators to get included in a registry of research infrastructure (RI) reviewers. Reviewers in the registry must have the knowledge, experience and ability to conduct...
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Documents
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Sustainable European research infrastructures: Call for Action Report
The European Commission has recently published the ‘Call For Action Report’ which aims to set the basis for a discussion with Member States and stakeholders on the measures to be taken at all levels in...
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Between February and May 2018, the ResInfra@DR project organised three training events to build capacity for evaluation, planning, monitoring and management of research infrastructures (RIs). The trainings...
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Infrastructure Investment in the Western Balkans
Although a certain amount of catching-up in the Western Balkans has been recorded in the construction of transport infrastructure in recent years, the railway density remains low and the motorway density...
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Links
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Research Infrastructure Landscape - RI offering access
Find below two links offering a snapshot of Research Infrastructures landscape Research Infrastructure Landscape 288 KB Infrastructures offering Access 141 KB ...
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H2020 and Research Infrastructures
Horizon 2020 shall endow Europe with world-class research infrastructures that are accessible to all researchers in Europe and fully exploiting their potential for scientific advancement and innovation...
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Research Infrastructures offering free Access with EU support
The current list of Research Infrastructures offering free access with EU support can be found at this link
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Projects
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BELLA-S1 Building Europe Link with Latin America
The BELLA-S1 proposal aims to provide for the long-term interconnectivity needs of the European and Latin American research and education networks.
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Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Infrastructure Alliance for Europe
SERA is the "Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Infrastructure Alliance for Europe", responding to the priorities identified in the call INFRAIA-01-2016-2017 Research Infrastructure for Earthquake...
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Infradev - European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure
The general objective of this project is to design the framework for the European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure (EPTRI), a new Research Infrastructure (RI) aimed to enhance technology...
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