Deadline: 23-Sep-21
The European Commission’s Transition to digital/remote research infrastructure service provision: lessons learnt, needs and best practices.
The provision of digital and remote research infrastructure services has proved its effectiveness during the COVID-19 emergency/lockdown. Such an approach would also contribute to a sustainable and effective ecosystem of research infrastructures, and, more in general, to a more sustainable society.
Building on the resilience strategies and approaches developed during the COVID-19 emergency by research infrastructures in Europe, proposals under this topic should adopt a broad approach, covering a wide range of different research infrastructures in many fields and address the following aspects:
- investigate good practices, strategies and lessons learned as well as needs, risks and threats and further technological developments necessary to support the transition to digital/remote research infrastructure service provision;
- identify solutions, technologies and software enabling secure remote control of instrumentation and measurement as well as strategies for providing support to remote users;
- develop guidelines to foster the transition to a digital/remote provision of research infrastructure services.
Funding Information
The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for:
- public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and
- cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).
Expected Outcomes
Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:
- increased resilience of research infrastructures during crisis;
- reduced ecological footprint of research infrastructure activities;
- wider access to research infrastructures and enlargement of their user base
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
- eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe;
- low- and middle-income countries.
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