Support to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
Developing, consolidating and optimising the European research infrastructures landscape, maintaining global leadership
€1.5M - €3.0M
18/09/2025
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other
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What is the Support to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures Call?
Expected Outcomes
• Enhanced efficiency, impact and visibility of ESFRI strategy and actions.
• A better structured and strengthened European research infrastructure ecosystem.
• Reinforced global competitiveness of the European Research Area.
• Improved coordination and alignment of EU and national priorities for research infrastructures.
• A robust impact assessment of ESFRI’s activities and strategy.
Scope Requirements
• Provide dedicated administrative support to the ESFRI Chair and Executive Board.
• Support ESFRI working groups and bodies in carrying out all listed activities (Roadmap, analysis, evaluation, monitoring, communication, outreach, cooperation, impact assessment).
• Engage external expertise for evaluation, monitoring and analytical tasks.
• Deploy appropriate ICT and analytical tools for effective monitoring and evaluation of research infrastructures.
• Implement and deliver the ESFRI communication and outreach strategy, including event organisation.
• Foster cooperation among research infrastructures, their managers, stakeholders and funding bodies at EU and national levels.
• Ensure cooperation with ERA-related initiatives, EOSC and other relevant European/international stakeholders via the Stakeholder Forum.
• Organise a sufficiently flexible workplan with an agreed mechanism with ESFRI to adjust activities throughout the project.
• Ensure all software developed is open source, licensed under a CC0 public domain dedication or an FSF/OSI-approved open source licence.
• Consider including the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) Support Services Directorate in the consortium to leverage its research infrastructure expertise.
Special Conditions
• Budget between EUR 1 000 000 and 1 500 000; maximum one project funded.
• Proposal page limits and layout as per Work Programme General Annex A/E; eligible countries per Annex B.
• Financial/operational capacity and exclusion criteria per Annex C; evaluation and award per Annex D/F; legal/financial set-up per Annex G.
• All software deliverables must be open source under CC0 or FSF/OSI-approved licences.
• Third-party impact assessments must be commissioned in accordance with ESFRI-proposed indicators.
• Proposals may include JRC as a consortium member; JRC is an ESFRI stakeholder prepared to collaborate.
• Compliance with all Horizon Europe rules, the Model Grant Agreement and submission deadlines (deadline: 18 September 2025, 17:00 Brussels time).
Open from: 06/05/2025
Deadline:18/09/2025
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