Expected Outcome:
Projects are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:
- support to planning and decision-making for research infrastructures at the national (e.g. funding bodies, governments) and European level (e.g. ESFRI) through solid science cases, including expected scientific breakthrough, gap analyses, and feasibility/design studies for future research infrastructures or major upgrades of existing ones;
- a better alignment of the development of the research infrastructure landscape with the advancements of excellent science, frontier research and technology innovation;
- increased performance, scientific capacity, and excellence of the European research infrastructure landscape;
- new services and access opportunities available to the research community, allowing them to better tackle scientific and societal challenges;
- reduction of environmental (including climate-related) impacts as well as optimization of resource and energy consumption integrated in the very early phase of development of new research infrastructures or major upgrades of existing ones.