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Research Infrastructures (RI)

Research infrastructures (RIs) are facilities, resources and services that are used by the research communities to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields.

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Research infrastructures (RIs) are facilities, resources and services that are used by the research communities to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields. Where relevant, they may be used beyond research, e.g. for education or public services. They include: major scientific equipment (or sets of instruments); knowledge-based resources such as collections, archives or scientific data; e-infrastructures, such as data and computing systems and communication networks; and any other infrastructure of a unique nature essential to achieve excellence in research and innovation. Such infrastructures may be 'single-sited', ‘virtual’ or 'distributed'.

Research infrastructures play an increasingly important role in the advancement of knowledge and technology. They are a key instrument in bringing together a wide diversity of stakeholders to look for solutions to many of the problems society is facing today. RIs offer unique research services to users from different countries, attract young people to science, and help to shape scientific communities.

The European research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures) work programme 2018-2020 consists of six calls for proposals in which proposals are invited against specific topics:

  • Development and long-term sustainability of new pan-European research infrastructures
  • Implementing the European Open Science Cloud
  • Integrating and opening research infrastructures of European interest
  • European Data Infrastructure
  • Demonstrating the role of Research Infrastructures in the translation of Open Science into Open Innovation
  • Support to policy and international cooperation
 

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Horizon 2020 work programmes 2020 - latest up...

The latest versions of the Horizon 2020 2018-2020 work programmes can now be found here under ‘work programmes’. The link to each work programme (PDF), that was adopted by the European Commission on 17 September 2020, is listed below and can be found on our website on each programme page (dark grey banner). Introduction 2018-20 Future an... read more 

H2020 General   NMBP   SPACE   SwafS   Batteries  

Partner search opportunities for Green Deal C...

In the coming months several brokerage and partnering events will be organised in the frame of the Green Deal Calls (more information on the calls on this page). An overview of partnering tools will be presented during the second part of the two-part Green Deal Call webinar organised by the Belgian NCPs on 11 September. Please find below an... read more 

H2020 General   NMBP   SPACE   SwafS   Batteries  

Webinars European Green Deal

With its new priority for a European Green Deal the European Commission plans to make EU’s economy sustainable, by turning the climate and environmental challenges into opportunities. In Horizon 2020 the Green Deal call  has been added to create visible close-to-market R&I projects that can help make the EU fully sustainable by 2050.The... read more 

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Human Brain Project launches calls for expres...

Update 14/9/20: The pre-proposal submission deadline has been postponed to 30 September 2020 17:00 (Brussels time). The proposal submission deadline has been postponed to 23 October 2020 17:00 (Brussels time). The Human Brain Project (HBP) launches four calls for expression of interest (CEoIs) for new projects to directly contribute to the devel... read more 

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AVIA-GIS / SMEinstrument

Avia-GIS is a Belgian innovative SME established in 2001. They have built research and public authority trust over the past 19 years and developed a unique, disruptive software suite - VECMAP® - that will support society to overcome one of its important health threats, the spreading of Pests of Public Health importance.

With the help of a Horizon 2020 SME Instrument-phase 2 project, they will be able to add Integrated Pest Management (IPM) functionalities and bring VECMAP®IPM to the market. Within 5 years Avia-GIS will enable 2000 SME pest controllers and 2340 local authorities to shift to IPM strategies. With the grant they will raise revenue from 2 M€ to 14.2 M€ in 2024, and increase the headcount from 15 to 58.

The Horizon 2020 grant was an essential component of their second investment round. To date Avia-GIS already raised 1 M€ in additional private equity and they are now are seeking to complement this with an equal amount as a subordinate loan.

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