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Access to research infrastructures, their resources and services: large-scale pilots for more integrated scheme across (sub)domains

Funder
European Commission · Horizon Europe · Research Infrastructures
Award amount
Up to €35,000,000
Deadline
June 15, 2027
Eligible countries
European Union, United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Israel, Global

Summary

Forthcoming EU call topic HORIZON-INFRA-2027-SERV-01-01 · HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions. Part of call HORIZON-INFRA-2027-01: Research Infrastructures 2027. Opens 2027-03-09; next deadline 2027-06-15. Topic page: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-INFRA-2027-SERV-01-01

Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes: - More efficient access to the best research infrastructures available to researchers and innovators to conduct basic and applied research and foster innovation, irrespective of location. A single-entry point access portal, integrated or interoperable catalogues of services and converging access conditions and selection procedures; - A step towards a longer-term sustainable access programme harmonised across different ESFRI domains; - Breakthrough and leading-edge research enabled by advanced research infrastructure services, including from emerging facilities, made available to a wider user community, including in emerging areas of research; - A new generation of researchers trained to optimally exploit all the essential tools for their research with due attention to early-stage career researchers and researchers from widening countries and candidate countries; - Interdisciplinarity and sharing of information, knowledge and technologies across scientific fields with due attention to research security; better management, including implementing FAIR data principles, of the continuous flow of data collected or produced by research infrastructures.

Scope: This topic aims at testing ‘access programme like’ projects providing trans-national access (on-site or remote) and/or virtual access to integrated and customised research infrastructure installations and services for excellent research, from frontier and curiosity-driven to applied research, offered by a wide range of complementary and interdisciplinary research…

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