Connecting research infrastructures and a wider user community across the European Research Area through access to advanced research infrastructure services

Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes: Better connection of research infrastructures across the European Research Area reinforcing and spreading excellence throughout the European Research Area; mitigating scattered national and regional research infrastructures and pockets of scientific excellence, and increasing the circulation of knowledge; wider, simplified, and more efficient access to the best research infrastructures available to researchers to conduct curiosity-driven excellent research, irrespective of location; breakthrough and leading-edge research enabled by advanced research infrastructure services made available to a wider user community; enhanced integration of a wider user community in the European research infrastructure ecosystem; enhanced capacities of a wider user community to address research challenges and EU policy priorities; enhanced convergence of research capacities and increase of Europe’s competitiveness; a new generation of researchers trained to optimally exploit all the essential tools for their research; better management, including implementing FAIR data principle, of the continuous flow of data collected or produced by research infrastructures. Scope: The topic targets the further integration of a wider user community in the European RI ecosystem and the strengthening of this ecosystem across the entire European Research Area through access to research infrastructures and other…