European Strategy on Research and Technology Infrastructures
Summary
The strategy aims to improve Europe's research and technology infrastructure capacity, investment and access. It covers criteria and roadmaps for infrastructures of European interest, funding coordination, upgrades, transnational collaboration and services for startups and scaleups. It also addresses FAIR and AI-ready research data, an enhanced EOSC Federation, coordinated governance, skills, international partnerships, resilience, and trusted storage, processing and sharing of critical data.
Action items
1–6 of 21 items
Source order · D = digital dimension- Item 1
Develop criteria for identifying technology infrastructures of European interest, in synergy with the ESFRI roadmap for research infrastructures 2025
- Item 2
Map and assess the research and technology infrastructures capacities in Europe in the context of global competition, policy priorities and user needs, and develop joint capacities investment roadmaps, identifying priority areas for targeted investments in a continuum from research infrastructures to technology infrastructures, including in EU-level sectoral initiatives. 2026
- Item 3
Invest in building and sustaining critical new capacities for world-class research and technology infrastructures in Europe, spearheaded by EU priorities, facilitating the implementation of strategic initiatives aimed at ensuring long-term global leadership. 2027
- Item 4
Increase funding opportunities for research and technology infrastructures at EU level and propose specific funding and financing models to encourage a more effective pooling of public and private funding for investments, leading to better exploitation of existing funding frameworks, while also addressing the need to reduce regional disparities. 2026
- Item 5
Provide a stable framework for maintaining and upgrading world-class research infrastructures by providing the support to the implementation of existing and new roadmaps for research infrastructure technologies, responding to jointly identified needs and commonalities across research infrastructures and, where applicable, across domains; support the roadmapping for new technology needs, taking into account aspects of digitalisation of operation, standardisation, interoperability, resilience and sustainability of research infrastructures 2025
- Item 6
Support the mapping of research infrastructure funding sources at national, regional and EU level and promote synergies among complementary funding instruments by promoting good practice and appropriate guidance; where applicable, explore adjusting the conditions and rules of EU funding instruments for combined and complementary funding, notably for research infrastructures regarded as essential infrastructures for EU operational or deployment programmes. 2025