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Research infrastructures provide facilities, services and resources for researchers and innovators to conduct cutting-edge research, develop innovative technology and foster innovation. Technology infrastructures provide the facilities, capabilities and resources required to develop, test, upscale and validate technology, accelerating innovations towards societal/market adoption. Europe’s world-class ecosystem of research and technology infrastructures is a major strategic asset underpinning scientific and technological excellence and industrial competitiveness.
The European Research Area (ERA) benefits from a rich landscape of pan-European research infrastructures as prioritised by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). However, despite these prioritisation and coordination efforts since the early 2000s, the sustainability of these infrastructures remains a challenge, as does keeping the EU’s leading position vis-à-vis our competitors.