Transition to digital/remote research infrastructure service provision: lessons learnt, needs and best practices

Call Updates:

Jun 22, 2021 4:20:13 PM

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-01-05(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-01-02(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-01-03(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-01-01(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-01-04(HORIZON-CSA)

Transition to digital/remote research infrastructure service provision: lessons learnt, needs and best practices
TOPIC ID: HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-01-03

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: Developing, consolidating and optimising the European research infrastructures landscape, maintaining global leadership (2021) (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-01)
Type of action: HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned opening date: 22 June 2021
Deadline date: 23 September 2021 17:00:00 Brussels time

Topic description

ExpectedOutcome:

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;

Scope:

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.