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The chemicals industry is one of Europe’s largest manufacturing sectors. Its modernisation relies on the capacity for atomic-level investigation of increasingly complex solid substrates in multifaceted research areas. Advances have been made in the development and use of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a powerful analytical technique in modern chemistry. The EU-funded PANACEA project will establish an integrated infrastructure for multi-disciplinary chemistry users in search of pioneering instrumentalization and exploratory expertise in solid-state NMR. The project will advance knowledge and support innovation, offering access to the best research infrastructures in solid-state NMR worldwide.

• More info about the project: https://panacea-nmr.eu/
• More info about the access: https://panacea-nmr.eu/access

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Giving the past a future: the integration of archaeological data infrastructures in Europe is vital to ensure researchers are able to search through vast data sets on a specific topic. Building on the success of the previous ARIADNE project, which successfully integrated archaeological data infrastructures in Europe (indexing some 2 million data sets on its portal), this EU-funded ARIADNEplus project will update the data and extend geographic and temporal coverage. Specifically, it will further develop relationships with key stakeholders to cover all of Europe. It will also develop a new data infrastructure embedded in a cloud that will offer the availability of virtual research environments where data-based archaeological research may be carried out. It will also simplify the search process with pre-compiled menus.

• More information on the project: https://ariadne-infrastructure.eu/
• More information on the access: https://ariadne-infrastructure.eu/transnational-access/

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With our oceans and seas playing a key role in monitoring climate change, marine research is very important for a better understanding of the changes in our environment and the effects these changes pose for our future. The ocean is difficult to explore and requires specialist vessels and equipment which the EU-funded EurofleetsPlus project is providing. With a fleet of 27 state-of-the-art research vessels from European and international partners, marine researchers and scientists will have the opportunity to work with the best marine equipment and infrastructures, exploring the ocean in ways that have not been possible until now, ultimately enabling scientists to better conduct their research. The alliance will prioritise supporting innovation and research on clean and healthy oceans.

• More info on the project: https://www.eurofleets.eu/
• More info on the access: https://www.eurofleets.eu/access/ 

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Research infrastructures (RI) can play a key role in meeting Green Deal goals and the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy through a sustainable ‘From Pig to Pork’ approach. The EU-funded PIGWEB project will strengthen the pig research community by increasing access to RIs and promoting cooperation between scientists, the pig industry and stakeholders. The initiative will also harmonise protocols and best practices, promote standards, collect and manage project data, disseminate results and provide graduate and post-graduate training. In addition, researchers will develop non-invasive techniques for studying pig digestion and blood sampling, plus indicators of welfare, behaviour, and body composition. Lastly, a research toolbox will be developed to identify traits relevant to sustainable pig production. Deadline: 01/12/2023.

• More info on the project: https://www.pigweb.eu/
• More info on the transnational access: https://www.pigweb.eu/contact-tna

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EU-funded AQUAEXCEL3.0 aims to further boost the European aquaculture sector, building on previous AQUAEXCEL and AQUAEXCEL2020 projects. Integrating 40 top-class research facilities from biology to technology in all types of rearing systems, and covering all major EU farmed species and promising new species, it will expand access to high-quality services and resources. Through a strong partnership, the project will boost excellent research and sustainable innovation for both public and private sectors working in aquaculture. The 3Rs (reduction, refinement and replacement) are key to this project, which will provide research and industry with new services focused on their needs. The enhanced scope includes shellfish, macroalgae and recyclers (insects, marine worms) to move towards a more sustainable and circular aquaculture.

• More info on the project: https://aquaexcel.eu/
• More info on the transnational access: https://aquaexcel.eu/transnational-access/

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ARIADNE provides services for archaeologists to enable trans-national access to the research infrastructure. These services include online databases and training resources, training workshops and placements in participating research organisations to enable researchers to gain pan-European experience. The ARIADNE Portal will also include a registry, search facilities, visualization, alerts and other online services that will support the finding and sharing of archaeological datasets.ARIADNE includes leading portals which provide integrated access to several archaeological datasets.  The project is developing a core set of services that will be available through a state-of-the-art portal for the archaeological research community, including registry, search, visualization, access, alert and other services.The ARIADNEplus project is the extension of the previous ARIADNE Integrating Activity, which successfully integrated archaeological data infrastructures in Europe, indexing in its registry about 2.000.000 datasets. ARIADNEplus will build on the ARIADNE results, extending and supporting the research community that the previous project created and further developing the relationships with key stakeholders such as the most important European archaeological associations, researchers, heritage professionals, national heritage agencies and so on.

• More info on the project: http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/
• More info on the access: http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/Transnational-Access

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated all aspects of our lives, forever changing how we perceive and interact with the world around us. In life sciences, especially, AI has opened new frontiers in the way information is obtained and disseminated. However, concerns remain over equitable data governance as well as access to new AI models, significantly hindering research activities. The EU-funded AI4LIFE project aims to facilitate life scientists’ access to FAIR and open data, focusing especially on AI-powered image analysis methods. To that end, it will develop an open platform hosting FAIR pre-trained AI models which can be easily accessed without requiring advanced computer skills. The new platform will prepare life scientists to handle AI methods responsibly, while also enabling interoperability between different analysis tools.

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Open science practices can be used to create a new European community of important research infrastructures in the field of biodiversity. This is the aim of the EU-funded BiCIKL project. It will provide access to data in connection with new tools and services at each distinct level and along the entire research chain. The project will deliver new methods and workflows to combine access to harvesting, liberating, linking, accessing and reusing sub-article-level data derived from literature. BiCIKL will issue, for the first time, access and tools for continuous linking and usage tracking of data along the sequence from specimen, sequences, species, analytics, publications and biodiversity knowledge graph to reuse

• More info on the project: https://bicikl-project.eu/
• More info on the access: https://bicikl-project.eu/research-infrastructures

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Urban drainage systems (UDS) reduce flooding risks and protect the environment as well as providing effective sanitation. However, many UDS are now at risk of failing to provide the expected level of performance. The EU-funded Co-UDlabs project aims to integrate targeted research and innovation activities in UDS by creating an urban drainage large-scale facilities network to provide opportunities for monitoring water quality, UDS performance and smart and open data approaches. The initiative will facilitate the uptake of innovation in traditional buried pipe systems and newer green-blue infrastructure, with a particular focus on increasing understanding of asset deterioration and improving system resilience. Co-UDlabs will develop innovative smart monitoring technologies, digital water analysis tools and help train scientists and innovators. Deadline: 06/10/2023.

• More info on the project: https://co-udlabs.eu/
• More info on the access: https://co-udlabs.eu/access/about-ta/

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canSERV project will enable academia and industry access to cross-cutting services and support from basic science up to clinical translation to foster personalised medicine for cancer patients. All services of the participating infrastructures will be bundled on a common platform which will go online within the next few months. canSERV will connect, coordinate, and align existing oncology and complementary Research Infrastructures (RIs) alongside providing services in a synergistic, transnational way. This will capitalise on the critical mass of experts and cutting-edge services offered by canSERV RIs and their extended networks.

• More info about the project: https://www.canserv.eu/
• More info about the access: https://www.canserv.eu/calls/challenge-call-advancing-personalised-oncology/

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Nature generally surprises us with its simple yet elegant solutions. The Periodic Table of the elements is an excellent example. There are only 118 known elements that make up matter as we know it. The creation of new atomic nuclei, or nucleosynthesis, began almost instantaneously after the Big Bang and continues today in our stars. Nuclear astrophysics shines a light on the origin of chemical elements and the evolution of our cosmos. The EU-funded ChETEC-INFRA project will unify access to three critical infrastructures for nuclear astrophysics research: laboratories, telescopes and spectrometers, and supercomputer facilities. The tools, combined approach and transnational access will overcome barriers to progress in nuclear astrophysics.

• More info on the project: https://www.chetec-infra.eu/
• More info on the access: https://www.chetec-infra.eu/tna/application/

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Improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people is a policy priority for the EU. The availability of longitudinal data on child wellbeing is uneven across the EU and exists only in a minority of Member States. The EU-funded COORDINATE project will increase the visibility and use of data on child wellbeing across the EU. The COORDINATE team will also prepare the next phases of Europe’s first cross-national accelerated birth cohort survey called Growing Up In Digital Europe (GUIDE). COORDINATE includes 22 partners from 14 countries and builds upon the research undertaken by the FP7 Measuring Youth Well Being and H2020 European Cohort Development Projects. Deadline: 04/10/2023.

• More info on the project: https://www.coordinate-network.eu/
• More info on the access: https://www.coordinate-network.eu/transnational-visits

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The EU-funded COMFOCUS project will examine key national and regional research infrastructures in the field of food consumer science. Its mission is to advance the food consumer science community beyond its current level of fragmentation that is preventing it from being the data-rich science area contributing to the societal problem of (un-)healthy food choices. As a library of metadata and digital service tools, the COMFOCUS knowledge platform will be an easily accessible focal point for all European researchers within the principles of FAIR and the responsible research and innovation data use. Steps include a coordinated set of activities on networking, joint research and transnational and virtual access to key research infrastructures. Outcomes will be disseminated and supported by a stakeholder forum.

• More info on the project: https://comfocus.eu/
• More info on the access: https://comfocus.eu/virtual-transational-infrastructures/

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Understanding earth materials is critical to creating a sustainable, carbon-neutral society due to their involvement in many vital processes. The EU-funded EXCITE project, comprised of 15 European institutions for electron and X-ray microscopy, will enable access to high-end microscopy facilities to develop community-driven technological imaging advancements that will strengthen and extend the current implementation of leading-edge microscopy for earth materials research. EXCITE will integrate joint research programmes with networking, training, and transnational access activities to enable both academia and industry to answer critical questions in earth materials science and technology. As such, EXCITE will develop correlative imaging technologies and provide access to world-class facilities to particularly new and non-expert users that are often hindered from engaging in problem-solving microscopy of earth materials.

• More info on the project: https://excite-network.eu/
• More info on the access: https://excite-network.eu/access/

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The EU-funded EMERGE project addresses the challenges concerning the whole spectrum of flexible, large-area electronics and photonics development: from materials synthesis and process design and architecture to device and system development. EMERGE will establish the first research infrastructure that supports interdisciplinary research in the field, enabling the introduction of new, recyclable electronics products at half the time and cost. Moreover, it will establish guidelines for the further exploitation of industrial symbiosis of green technologies by identifying best practices and maintaining an up-to-date inventory of projects and opportunities for cross-sectoral cooperation and networking.

• More info on the project: https://emerge-infrastructure.eu/
• More info on the access: https://emerge-infrastructure.eu/service/

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Electron microscopy constitutes a powerful approach for characterisation at the atomic scale, extending beyond basic cell visualisation to the analysis of novel materials in physical, chemical and biological sciences. The EU-funded ESTEEM3 initiative is an ongoing European project that provides transnational access for the scientific community to the leading European state-of-the-art electron microscopy research infrastructures. Access is granted through a simple peer review process, and users are supported in terms of protocols, methodologies and training. Particular emphasis is given to the analysis of materials related to ICT, energy, health and transport.

• More info on the project: https://www.esteem3.eu/index.php?index=104
• More info on the access: https://www.esteem3.eu/access

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ERIES responds to the call INFRA-2021-SERV-01-07: Research infrastructure services advancing frontier knowledge with the overall objective of providing transnational access to advanced research infrastructures in the fields of structural, seismic, wind and geotechnical engineering. This project, together with the research infrastructure team assembled, provides access to leading experimental facilities that permit users to advance frontier knowledge and conduct curiosity-driven research towards: the reduction of losses and disruption due to these hazards; the management of their associated risk; and the development of innovative solutions to address them that will contribute to a greener and more sustainable society. To this end, ERIES will offer transnational access to the best European experimental facilities in each field, with new and unique infrastructures available for the first time in this programme, along with the provision of a key laboratory in North America. It also foresees a key contribution from the European Commission?s Joint Research Centre, as anticipated by the call. It integrates the successful results and implementation of the past infrastructure projects, such as SERIES and SERA, and expands access capabilities to new communities and disciplines which were not yet focused on in past projects. Its anticipated outcome is to provide authoritative input for diverse stakeholders, from Civil Protection agencies to the European seismic building code; develop future standards for experimental techniques in earthquake, wind and geotechnical engineering; and provide a platform from which European researchers can develop innovative solutions and testbed applications of next-generation technologies. With 12 beneficiaries from 8 countries, ERIES builds an important element toward the reduction of losses, management of risk, and overall a greener and more sustainable engineering future in Europe.

• More info on the project: https://eries.eu/
• More info on the access: https://eries.eu/transnational-access/

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Next generation sequencing (NGS) is a cutting-edge sequencing technique that creates a library of DNA/RNA fragments and sequences them in a parallel fashion. It is characterised by high speed, accuracy and high-throughput efficacy, truly revolutionising biomedical research in recent years. The scope of the EU-funded EASI-Genomics project is to bring down the cost of NGS services. For this purpose, the project will offer funding to more than 150 projects to undertake NGS-based experiments. A framework that includes experimental design services, sequencing, and data analysis will help researchers with their projects and provide easy access to high-standard research.

• More info on the project: https://www.easi-genomics.eu/home
• More info on the access: https://www.easi-genomics.eu/access

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics explore at different scales what the universe is composed of and how it functions. Breakthroughs in accelerator and detector technologies combined with innovative experiments represent the key to new discoveries. High Energy Physics, while preparing for the HL-LHC, is pursuing the design of the next generation particle accelerators and detectors, balancing the present and the future. Newly available beams of nuclei far from stability and intense stable beams have opened new avenues, ranging from the production of new elements to the exploration of nuclear properties at extremes of temperature, angular momentum and isospin. It is of vital importance to simultaneously optimize the use of existing and new Research Infrastructures (RIs) to conduct curiosity-driven research addressing fundamental questions and technological challenges, and also advance projects with broad societal impact. This project provides efficient access to the available resources to a large fraction of EUROpean Laboratories for Accelerator Based Sciences (EURO-LABS). It allows the diverse community of users to choose the best state-of-the-art RI or a network of RIs to conduct high impact research, fostering knowledge sharing across scientific fields. The proposal brings together, for the first time, the three communities engaged in Nuclear Physics, Accelerator and Detector technology for High Energy Physics, pioneering a super community of sub-atomic researchers. It allows a synergic implementation of best practices for data management and activities relating to targeted service improvements at these RIs. Joint training activities are foreseen to develop the skills of the next generation researchers to optimally use the RIs services for scientific and technological discoveries. EURO-LABS will create synergies and collaborations between the RIs of the Nuclear and High Energy communities, enhancing Europe’s potential for successfully facing future challenges.

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Long-term ecosystem research is essential to improve our knowledge of the structure and functions of ecosystems and their long-term responses to environmental, societal and economic drivers. Networking, joint research activities, and transnational, remote and virtual access are the three main pillars of the EU-funded eLTER PLUS project that will address biodiversity loss, biogeochemical controls of ecosystem functions, the climate-water-food nexus and socio-ecological systems. By engaging current and new users and developing the operations of cross- and transdisciplinary research, as well as strengthening community and service building, the project will expand on the research capacities.

• More info on the project: https://elter-ri.eu/
• More info on the access: https://elter-ri.eu/elter-ri

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The European Microkelvin Platform is an advanced European research infrastructure in the field of ultra-low temperature and ultra-sensitive measurement techniques with a specific focus on quantum technologies and quantum materials. The platform is continuously evolving, building on the advances achieved through previous infrastructure calls. A consortium of 17 partners from both academia and the private sector joined forces in the EU-funded EMP project to provide a comprehensive portfolio of capabilities to enhance the European research effort and innovation potential in ultra-low temperature physics. Partners will focus on improving and upgrading the infrastructure since the lowest accessible temperatures are continuously falling.

• More info on the project: https://emplatform.eu/
• More info on the access: https://emplatform.eu/user/general_info

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Proteins are the vital molecular workhorses present in all living organisms. Proteomics applies technology to identify and quantify all proteins present in a cell, tissue or an organism, with the aim to understand how these proteins function and regulate life processes. This requires a detailed analyses of protein interactions, structures and modifications. As such, it is necessary to integrate proteomics technologies into world-class life sciences research programmes. The EU-funded EPIC-XS project brings together world-leading European proteomics facilities with the shared goal of supporting excellent life sciences research in Europe. Specifically, it will provide access to cutting-edge proteomics facilities and implement novel proteomics and bioinformatics approaches to support and shape life science research from bench to bedside.

• More info on the project: https://epic-xs.eu/
• More info on the access: https://epic-xs.eu/data-access/

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Successfully transforming the field of science, technology and innovation (STI) into an advanced research community hinges on the development of an e-infrastructure that supports full virtual transnational access by researchers. It also requires an enlarged set of services aimed at meeting field-specific needs (for exploring open data and supporting researchers’ analytical capabilities). It also requires the maintenance of data sets and developing new ones. In this context, the EU-funded RISIS 2 project will develop this e-infrastructure. It will also provide training, dissemination and communication activities to support the widening of the community. The ultimate aim of the project is to build on the first RISIS project (2014-2018) and to further support the development of a new generation of analysis and indicators.

• More info on the project: https://www.risis2.eu/about/

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What will Europe’s energy system look like in 10 years? The 2030 targets for decarbonising the EU economy have been agreed. The transition is underway. The integration of renewable energy resources and turning the existing power system into a smart grid are among the top goals. The EU-funded ERIGrid 2.0 project will address the challenges of the energy transition by widening and advancing access to European research infrastructure. Serving as a single entry point for researchers active in smart grids and integration of renewables, the project will develop a broad spectrum of improved services, methods and tools. It is the third phase. The first was the DERIri project, which focused on the provision of access around distributed energy resources. The second phase was the ERIGrid project, which successfully broadened the services to the system level. The 10th call will open on the 1st October 2023. Deadline: 31 December 2023.

• More info on the project: https://erigrid2.eu/
• More info on the access: https://erigrid2.eu/lab-access/

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TRANSVAC2 is the follow-up project to its successful predecessor project TRANSVAC, the European Network of Vaccine Research and Development funded under FP7. The TRANSVAC2 consortium comprises a comprehensive collection of leading European institutions that propose to further advance with the previous initiative towards the establishment of a fully operational and sustainable European vaccine R&D infrastructure. TRANSVAC2 will support innovation for both prophylactic and therapeutic vaccine development based on a disease-overarching and one-health approach, thereby optimising the knowledge and expertise gained during the development of both human and animal vaccines. This will be achieved by bridging the translational gap in biomedical research, and by supporting cooperation between public vaccine R&D institutions of excellence, related initiatives and networks in Europe, and industrial partners. TRANSVAC2 will complement and integrate with existing European research infrastructures in both the public and private sectors. TRANSVAC2 will function as leverage and innovation catalyst between all stakeholders involved in vaccine R&D in Europe and -by providing integrated and overarching vaccine R&D services- will contribute to the development of effective products to address European and global health challenges, to controlling the burden and spread of infectious diseases, and reinforce the economic assets represented by vaccine developers in Europe.

The impact of TRANSVAC2 will be maximised by two external advisory bodies. An independent Scientific & Ethics Advisory Committee will provide recommendations surrounding scientific-technical and ethical issues, whereas the coordination of TRANSVAC2 with other related initiatives and the further promotion of the long-term stability of a European vaccine R&D infrastructure will be supported by a Board of Stakeholders comprising representatives of policy and decision makers, industry associations and European infrastructures.

• More info on the project: https://www.transvac.org/transvac2
• More info on the access: https://www.transvac.org/services-application

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The EU-funded EVA-GLOBAL project gathers 43 laboratories associated with key Non-Governmental Organizations including WHO and OIE. EVA-GLOBAL network is reinforced by 12 Associate Partners and 5 Associate international networks. This unique advanced international community (12 EU and 17 non-EU) aims at becoming the most responsive network to improve the control of emerging or re-emerging virus outbreaks at the global level. The past EVAg, has already been able to play a key role for the control of major virus outbreaks such as MERS, Chik, Zika, Ebola, Dengue, COVID-19 viruses, by the supply of unique reagents for the detection of viruses in infected patients. Through the new institutes joining the consortium, EVA-G will become the largest virtual virus collection for human, animal and plant viruses.

• More info on the project: https://www.european-virus-archive.com/
• More info on the access: https://www.european-virus-archive.com/access-evag-ressources

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Investing in space infrastructures such as in the Copernicus and Galileo programmes, Europe has historically been at the forefront of space exploration. The Commission has made ambitious proposals for the period 2021–2027. These include a dedicated Space programme for a total of EUR 16 billion. It is within this context the EU-funded EPN-2024-RI will provide infrastructure necessary to address the major scientific and technological challenges facing modern planetary science. Its aim is to ensure Europe’s position is at the forefront of space exploration. To do this, the project will provide Transnational Access (TA) to an enhanced set of world-leading field and laboratory facilities, Virtual Access (VA) to state-of-the-art data services and tools linked to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), and Networking Activities (NA) to widen the user base and draw in new partners from around the world.

• More info on the project: https://www.europlanet-society.org/europlanet-2024-ri/
• More info on the access: https://www.europlanet-society.org/europlanet-2024-ri/transnational-access-ta/

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We are increasingly learning about and witnessing the costs of climate change. It is essential for groups and nations worldwide to seek clean energy solutions and innovations that could assist in decarbonisation. With this in mind, the EU-funded VIPERLAB project has identified perovskite photovoltaics as the most prominent technology for the future of European photovoltaics. According to the project, this technology will offer a minimal carbon footprint at low cost. The project will bring together a vast number of European industrial and academic researchers and scientists to develop a novel solar cell technology utilising perovskite photovoltaic technology to spearhead and hasten its further development in Europe while also offering a state-of-the-art solar cell technology. Deadline: 03/12/2023.

• More info on the project: https://www.viperlab.eu/
• More info on the access: https://www.viperlab.eu/apply-for-access/procedures.html

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Water, energy and (urban) transportation are services of critical infrastructure (CI) in Europe. Up to now, there has been a gap in the European research landscape for an integrated, advanced research infrastructure in this field. The EU-funded GEOLAB project consists of 11 installations in Europe aimed to study subsurface behaviour and the interaction with structural CI elements and the environment. The project will aim to integrate and advance these key national research infrastructures towards a one-stop-shop of excellent physical research infrastructure for performing ground-breaking research and innovation to understand and address the challenges facing CI. The outcomes will be useful for stakeholders among academia, industry and CI asset managers. Deadline: 14/10/2023.

• More info on the project: https://project-geolab.eu/
• More info on the access: https://project-geolab.eu/facilities-in-project-geolab/

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Geo-INQUIRE will provide and enhance access to selected key data, products, and services, enabling the dynamic processes within the geosphere to be monitored and modelled at new levels of spatial and temporal detail and precision. Geo-INQUIRE aims to overcome cross-domain barriers, especially the land-sea-atmosphere environments, and will exploit innovative data management techniques, modelling and simulations methods, developments in AI and big data, and extend existing data infrastructures to disseminate these resources to the wider scientific community, including the EOSC landscape. Geo-INQUIRE benefits from a unique partnership of 51 partners consisting of major national research institutes, universities, national geological surveys, and European consortia. Geo-INQUIRE will enhance and make interoperable the activities of the involved partners and conduct dedicated training programs for their optimal use. A portfolio of over 150 Virtual Access (VA) and Transnational Access (TA, both virtual and on-site) installations will be offered to the scientific community. While many such resources are already available at a high level of maturity, Geo-INQUIRE will ensure that they not only reach the highest level of scientific excellence through targeted actions on availability, quality, and spatial and temporal resolution, but also that they follow FAIR principles, adopt proper standards and open licenses, and aim at cross-disciplinary interoperability. Furthermore, the integration of different data, including new observables, products, and services will be optimized through TA activities via 6 test beds, which will also host workshops and summer schools dealing with the available resources. Ultimately, Geo-INQUIRE, with its enhanced data, product, and service portfolio, will enable the next generation of scientists to carry out leading-edge research addressing societal challenges from a multidisciplinary perspective, making intelligent use of these resources.

• More info on the project: https://www.geo-inquire.eu/

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The EU-funded HITRIplus project aims to integrate and propel biophysics and medical research on cancer treatment with heavy ions beams while jointly developing its sophisticated instruments. The wider objective of HITRIplus is to provide radiation oncologists with a cutting-edge tool to treat the tumours that are not curable with X-rays or protons or have better survival rates with ions. Transnational access will integrate and open the European facilities providing therapeutic ion beams to external researchers and clinicians. Networks will structure and foster the research on heavy ion therapy, including clinical and pre-clinical research. Joint research activities will develop new accelerator and beam delivery technologies to extend the reach of the present generation centres to make cancer ion therapy more accessible.

• More info on the project: https://www.hitriplus.eu/
• More info on the access: https://www.hitriplus.eu/transnational-access-what-is-ta/

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Applications based on artificial intelligence (AI) can help keep our waters clean. Specifically, AI apps can support water pollution mitigation efforts as well as beach monitoring and biodiversity loss studies in aquatic environments. The EU-funded iMagine project will provide a selection of free at the point of use image datasets, AI-empowered high-performance image analysis tools, and best practice documents for scientific image analysis. These services and materials enable better processing and analysis for imaging marine and freshwater data. The project will build on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) to deliver a generic scheme for AI model development, training, and deployment to refine AI-based applications for water pollution monitoring and facilitate the development and optimisation of other AI-based applications.

• More info on the project: https://www.imagine-ai.eu/ 

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Molecules have complex 3D structures in which their constituents fold and twist, hiding certain regions and exposing others. This structure changes in time and space as well, depending on what the molecule is doing – and which other structures – at any certain moment. Visualising and mapping the structure and interactions of biological molecules in space and time is critical to understanding the function and ultimately the development of catalysts, therapeutics and biofuels, to name a few. The EU-funded iNEXT-Discovery project is combining the requisite instrumentation and expertise accumulated by experts in structural biology, medicinal chemistry, translational medicine, biological imaging and food research, and making it available to enthusiastic European scientists. The joint research activities building on cross-disciplinary mentorship will enhance the growth and development of new communities and accelerate discoveries.

• More info on the project: https://inext-discovery.eu/network/inext-d/about

• More info on the access: https://inext-discovery.eu/network/inext-d/services

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Agriculture improves health and wellbeing. It contributes to local food security, increases farmers’ incomes and helps reduce poverty. However, developing a resilient and sustainable agricultural system can be challenging. Success hinges on a deep understanding of the systems and their interactions with the environment. The EU-funded AgroServ project will study the threats and challenges and deepen our understanding of how to achieve a resilient and sustainable agrifood system. This transdisciplinary project will bring together all actors of the agriculture system. Farmers are the first, thanks to a wide offer of living labs across Europe. By delivering a Europe-wide data ecosystem, AgroServ aims to grow the agroecology research community and support the cross-fertilisation of knowledge.

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The flow of hot ionised gas in our Sun generates a powerful magnetic field. About every 11 years, the Sun’s north and south poles flip. This solar cycle is associated with the appearance of sunspots and huge eruptions such as solar flares, which can affect us here on Earth. Predicting them is an important area of research related to both our well-being and our understanding of the evolution and activity of other stars. The EU-funded SOLARNET project is bringing together world-class European infrastructures for high-resolution solar physics research to enhance instrumentation, data access, imaging tools and algorithm development, experimentation, collaboration and trainings that will support full exploitation of future research facilities.

• More info on the project: https://solarnet-project.eu/home
• More info on the access: https://solarnet-project.eu/Transnational-ACCESS

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Heritage science is an umbrella term used to encompass the multidisciplinary research domain stemming from conservation science, archaeological science and building science, for which the EU Research Infrastructure E-RIHS (an ESFRI project) is being created. Promoting heritage science is the goal of the EU-funded IPERION HS project. It will establish an Integrating Activity for a distributed pan-European research infrastructure, opening key national research facilities of recognised excellence in heritage science. The project is described as a further step towards a unified scientific approach to the most advanced European instruments for the analysis, interpretation, preservation, documentation and management of heritage objects. With 67 partners from 23 countries, 52 access providers and more than 180 services, IPERION HS core activity will offer cross-border access to an impressively wide range of high-level scientific instruments, methodologies, data and tools for advancing knowledge and innovation in the study and preservation of heritage.

• More info on the project: https://www.iperionhs.eu/
• More info on the access: https://www.iperionhs.eu/iperion-hsaccess/

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IPERION HS offers Transnational Access (TNA) to a wide range of high-level scientific instruments, methodologies, data and tools for advancing knowledge and innovation in the field of Heritage Science. Researchers in the academy, public institutions and industry can submit single or multi-analysis proposals, IPERION HS selects the best proposals and covers the costs of this activity. The TNA program offers a vast portfolio of services and activities distributed in 16 countries in Europe and the Associated Countries aiming to propose solutions to the needs of the Heritage Science community. 

• More info on the project: https://www.iperionhs.eu/
• More info on the access: https://www.iperionhs.eu/iperion-hsaccess/

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The coastal environment is a major provider of goods and services, such as food, fossil fuels, construction materials, transport and recreation. It also hosts an invaluable biodiversity that forms complex ecosystems which are threatened by human activities such as agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture, shipping, urbanisation and tourism. Dedicated to the observation and monitoring of the European coastal waters is the Joint European Research Infrastructure of Coastal Observatories (JERICO-RI). The EU-funded JERICO-S3 project will provide a state-of-the-art, fit-for-purpose and visionary observational Research Infrastructure (RI), expertise and high-quality data on European coastal and shelf seas. The project will support world-class research, high-impact innovation and a window of European excellence worldwide. The project follows two previous EU funded projects: JERICO-FP7 (2011-2014) and JERICO-NEXT (2015-2019)

• More info on the project: https://www.jerico-ri.eu/projects/jerico-s3/
• More info on the access: https://www.jerico-ri.eu/ta/

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The EU-funded MINKE project will integrate key European marine metrology research infrastructures to propose an innovative framework of ‘quality of oceanographic data’ for European actors monitoring and managing marine ecosystems. MINKE proposes a new vision in the design of marine monitoring networks using two dimensions of data quality, accuracy and completeness, as the driving components of quality in data acquisition. This vision will be applied in a quintuple helix model of innovation, incorporating all elements involved in the monitoring network design. MINKE will lay the groundwork for creating the necessary synergies among different actors in the quintuple helix model of innovation, creating a new community with complementary capabilities for the ocean and coastal observation to facilitate the transition towards a blue growth socio-economic system.

• More info on the project: https://minke.eu/
• More info on the access: https://minke.eu/facilities/facilities-map/

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EU-funded MOSBRI, an integrated consortium of 13 academic centres of excellence and two industrial partners from 11 European countries, will spearhead the study of the architecture, dynamics and interactions of the giant molecules of life: proteins, DNA, RNA, polysaccharides and lipids. MOSBRI will explore how living organisms work at the crucial intermediate level between atomic-resolution structural descriptions and cellular-scale observations, enabling invaluable insights into the complex behaviour of macromolecular assemblies. MOSBRI will design innovative methodologies and quality control guidelines, provide free of charge access for to MOSBRI’s unparalleled suite of instruments and expertise, and widely disseminate know-how about the latest technological developments. Overall, it will help maintain Europe’s role as a global leader in the field of molecular biophysics.

• More info on the project: https://www.mosbri.eu/

• More info on the access: https://www.mosbri.eu/services/

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Large enough to allow experiments on whole ecosystems in close to natural conditions, mesocosms are controlled and replicated experimental water enclosures. These facilities are useful in predicting effects of future environmental and anthropogenic pressures on the complex aquatic ecosystems. In this context, the EU-funded AQUACOSM-plus project represents a European network of aquatic experimental mesocosm facilities, with the mission to address the dramatic challenges aquatic ecosystems are facing. The project will work to increase competence in mesocosm science in Hungary and Romania. It will develop near-real-time open data flows and improved metadata, developing new technological capabilities for mesocosm research. Scenario testing will also be carried out for climate change-related pressures on aquatic systems from upstream fresh waters to the sea.

• More info on the project: https://www.aquacosm.eu/about-aquacosm-plus
• More info on the access: https://www.aquacosm.eu/transnational-access

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Our knowledge of the universe is growing, and astronomers need more and better techniques to analyse astronomical phenomena. Europe’s largest astronomy network will assist in this area. The EU-funded Opticon RadioNet Pilot (ORP) will develop seamless access to radio and optical facilities in an efficient, coordinated and future-looking programme. ORP will offer access to an unrivalled set of major and specialised observatories across Europe (and around the world) covering the optical, infrared, sub-mm and radio wavebands to open the way to new discoveries. According to the project, this will represent the largest and most comprehensive suite of facilities to be brought together and offered to the European scientific community through a single programme.

• More info on the project: https://www.orp-h2020.eu/
• More info on the access: https://www.orp-h2020.eu/ta-va

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Key national and regional research infrastructures, such as the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT), the Low Frequency Array, or LOFAR (a new-generation radio interferometer constructed in the north of the Netherlands and across Europe), and the Digisonde ionospheric sounders, will come under a single European distributed network. This is the aim of the EU-funded PITHIA-NRF project. By integrating these facilities on a European scale and opening them up to all European researchers, the project will help to significantly advance research in the field of upper atmosphere and near-Earth space. The work will ultimately pave the way for new observation technologies and standard-making processes for software and high-level data products. Deadline: 30/11/2023.

• More info on the project: https://pithia-nrf.eu/
• More info on the access: https://pithia-nrf.eu/pithia-nrf-users/tna

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The EU-funded RADNEXT project aims to create a network of facilities and related irradiation methodology for responding to the emerging needs of electronics components and system irradiation. It also aims to combine different irradiation and simulation techniques for optimising the radiation hardness assurance for components and systems, focusing on the related risk assessment. The RADNEXT community will introduce a collection of facilities and skills to address world-wide user needs for space and high-reliability ground level applications, including automotive, medical and high-energy physics accelerators. RADNEXT will ensure that academia, research labs and industry will have sustained, varied and high-quality access to irradiation beams to progress with research on radiation effects on electronics.

• More info on the project: https://radnext.web.cern.ch/#about
• More info on the access: https://radnext.web.cern.ch/#transnational-access

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Transnational Access to irradiation facilities is the cornerstone of the RADNEXT project. More than 6000 beam time hours are awarded during the four years of the project, in more than 20 different facilities in Europe and beyond.

Both academic and industrial groups are eligible for beam time as potential RADNEXT users, and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are strongly encouraged to submit their proposals. Beam time awarded for RADNEXT users is free of charge, funded by EU European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101008126.

Submission deadline is 31 January 2023.

• More info on the project: https://radnext.web.cern.ch/#about
• More info on the access: https://radnext.web.cern.ch/#transnational-access

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ReMade@ARI (REcyclable MAterials DEvelopment at Analytical Research Infrastructures) is funded by the EU Commission’s Horizon Europe programme and co-funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation.

The project provides scientists who are working on the design of new recyclable materials with analytical tools that enable them to explore the properties and the structure of their material in smallest details up to atomic resolution. ReMade@ARI commits to leverage the development of innovative, sustainable materials for key components in the most diverse sectors, such as electronics, batteries, vehicles, construction, packaging, plastics, textiles and food on an unprecedented level. It will be the central hub in Europe for all sectors and research areas in which new materials for a circular economy will be developed.

• More info on the project: https://remade-project.eu/ 
• More info on the access: https://remade-project.eu/index.php/user-access-guidelines/calls-schedule/ 

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Teamwork combining the brightest minds and infrastructures will propel the EU into a new era of innovation. The EU is moving forward quickly to integrate outstanding and advanced scientific communities and foster open science initiatives, further enhancing access to multiple infrastructures. The EU-funded RADIATE project is providing a turbo-boost to ion beam-related research and applications by integrating complementary national ion beam facilities into one virtual multi-sited ion beam centre. Project goals include the development of a novel web portal for information and software sharing, the recruitment of young researchers, and the placement of innovation managers at the facilities to spur the exploitation and commercialisation of research outcomes.

• More info on the project: https://www.ionbeamcenters.eu/radiate/
• More info on the access: https://www.ionbeamcenters.eu/ion-beam-facilities/

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Risk Group 4 (RG4) pathogens usually cause serious human or animal disease and can be readily transmitted from one individual to another, directly or indirectly. Effective treatment and preventive measures are not usually available.

The ISIDORe consortium supports scientists with an interest in these pathogens with high individual and community risk. Researchers are invited to submit any proposal that:

Can be advanced by access to at least one of our services;   Falls under one of the following sections (see SCOPE), and   Is focused on at least one eligible RG4 pathogen

Full applications can be submitted until 07 February 2023, 23.59 CET.

• More info on the project: https://isidore-project.eu/calls/risk-group-4-pathogens/
• More info on the access: https://isidore-project.eu/what-is-a-tna/ 

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The digital transformation of our societies is enabled by the design, deployment and operation of continuously evolving, complex digital infrastructures. The research community needs a test platform to address significant challenges related to their efficiency, reliability, availability, range, end-to-end latency, security and privacy. The SLICES Research Infrastructure is under development to become the first Europe-wide digital test-platform to support large-scale, experimental research that will provide advanced computation, storage and network components, interconnected by dedicated high-speed links. The EU-funded SLICES-SC project will aspire to foster the community of researchers around this ecosystem, as well as create and strengthen necessary links with relevant industrial stakeholders for the exploitation of the infrastructure.

• More info on the project: https://slices-sc.eu/
• More info on the access: https://slices-sc.eu/events/slices-sc-open-call-id-call-2/

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The overall objective of this project is to carry on with the work done during the past 8 years for the sustainability of the activities of the European advance solar laboratories involved in SFERA and SFERA 2nd phase, and extend these activities to the new solar laboratories which will bring added value to this European Research Infrastructure for Concentrating Solar Power. The specific goal is to contribute to ensure the long-term sustainability of these European advance solar laboratories, supporting Europe as a global leader in solar research infrastructures. Those activities will include (i) networking activities to further develop the cooperation between the research infrastructures, the scientific community, industries and other stakeholders; (ii) transnational access activities aiming at providing access to all European researchers from both academia and industry to singular scientific and technological solar research infrastructures; and (iii) joint research activities whose sole purpose is to improve the integrated services provided by the infrastructure. Deadline is on 31^st January 2023.

• More info on the project:  https://sfera3.sollab.eu/
• More info on the access: https://sfera3.sollab.eu/access/ 

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In 2015, the EU-funded SoBigData project set out to create a research infrastructure delivering an integrated ecosystem for advanced applications of social data mining and Big Data analytics. To further study the complexity of the use of social mining and Big Data analytics, the EU-funded SoBigData-PlusPlus project will now develop a distributed, Europe-wide, multidisciplinary research infrastructure. This will be coupled with the consolidation of a cross-disciplinary European research community. The project will strengthen infrastructure tools and services by establishing an open platform for the design and performance of large-scale social mining experiments. The project will deliver specific tools approaching ethics with value-sensitive design integrating values for privacy protection, transparency, and pluralism.

• More info on the project: http://sobigdata.eu/index
• More info on the access: http://sobigdata.eu/content/call-2022-23-sobigdata-transnational-access

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The overall objective of this project is to carry on with the work done during the past 8 years for the sustainability of the activities of the European advance solar laboratories involved in SFERA and SFERA 2nd phase, and extend these activities to the new solar laboratories which will bring added value to this European Research Infrastructure for Concentrating Solar Power. The specific goal is to contribute to ensure the long-term sustainability of these European advance solar laboratories, supporting Europe as a global leader in solar research infrastructures.

Those activities will include (i) networking activities to further develop the cooperation between the research infrastructures, the scientific community, industries and other stakeholders; (ii) transnational access activities aiming at providing access to all European researchers from both academia and industry to singular scientific and technological solar research infrastructures; and (iii) joint research activities whose sole purpose is to improve the integrated services provided by the infrastructure.

All this would contribute to achieve the scientific excellence of these research infrastructures (RIs), strength the interaction between the Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) industry and these RIs, strength innovation further, develop new activities, and also drive the productivity and competitiveness of the European economy contributing to the creation of new jobs in the CST sector. Furthermore, these activities will contribute to the development of new common standards that will support the CST industry in the development of new components and systems and in the building of new commercial installations. At the same time, these standards will also support the European Commission in the development of the European policy for the CST sector.

• More info on the project: https://sfera3.sollab.eu/
• More info on the access: https://sfera3.sollab.eu/access/

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The world’s natural history collections contain at least 2 billion specimens of which an estimated 55 % reside in Europe. Enabling researchers to access these collections is vital. The creation of an integrated European infrastructure for natural history collections is underway. EU-funded SYNTHESYS PLUS is a pan-European natural history collection infrastructure project, and the fourth iteration of the SYNTHESYS programme. Its researchers are developing methods for collections digitalisation, digitisation workflows and new forms of collections access, laying the foundations for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo), a massive scientific infrastructure project. DiSSCo represents 120 European museums from 21 countries who are positioning their collections at the centre of data-driven scientific excellence and innovation.

• More info on the project: https://www.synthesys.info/
• More info on the access: https://www.synthesys.info/access.html

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Nuclear medicine uses radioactive molecules, so-called radiopharmaceuticals, and their radiation to provide diagnostic information and treat various medical conditions such as cancer. The radioactive elements, known as radionuclides, possess excess energy that is released by different types of radioactive decay. The key objective of the EU-funded PRISMAP project is to establish a European infrastructure and a common entry point for researchers and physicians in the field. The consortium will set up a sustainable source of highly pure non-conventional radionuclides for developments in medicine as well as protocols and services for the pharmaceutical industry and the healthcare sector, in a sustainable European medical radionuclide programme.

• More info on the project: https://www.prismap.eu/
• More info on the access: https://www.prismap.eu/access/

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The European VLBI Network (EVN) opened a new call for proposals open for the Worldwide Community.

Observing proposals are invited for the European VLBI Network (EVN). The EVN facility is open to all astronomers. Astronomers with limited or no VLBI experience are particularly encouraged to apply for observing time. Student proposals are judged favorably. The deadline for proposal submission is 1 February 2023 at 16:00 UTC.

• More info on the project: https://www.orp-h2020.eu/
• More info on the access: https://www.orp-h2020.eu/evn-call-proposals-february2023

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A key innovation driver for a wide variety of applications and products, laser technology is an important contributor to economic growth. The EU-funded LASERLAB-EUROPE project therefore aims to strengthen Europe’s leading position and competitiveness in this area. To achieve this goal, it will promote the Europe-wide use of advanced lasers and laser-based technologies in research and innovation. It will also serve a cross-disciplinary user community from academia and the industry. The project will further train new users in the field of lasers and improve human and technical resources through technology exchange and sharing of expertise. In this way, it will help to advance laser know-how and innovation throughout Europe.

• More info on the project: https://www.laserlab-europe.eu/
• More info on the access: https://www.laserlab-europe.eu/transnational-access

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In particle physics, a fundamental mechanism called strong interaction is responsible for strong nuclear force. This is the base of the Standard Model theory. Researchers are seeking to better understand and explain basic topics in this extremely promising field. They do this by conducting experimental and theoretical studies, mainly through particle collisions at low and high energies and calculations. Developments in state-of-the-art detectors are among their goals. The EU-funded STRONG-2020 project supports a close collaboration in a consortium involving 44 groups, 14 EU Member States, CERN and other institutions from numerous countries. It will create new possibilities, both in science and in applied research, for advanced medical and technological applications.

• More info on the project: http://www.strong-2020.eu/
• More info on the access: http://www.strong-2020.eu/all-activities/transnational-access.html

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Living labs are key to integrating research and innovation processes in real-life settings, and with a focus on people and their engagement in research procedures. To support these living labs, the EU-funded VITALISE project will develop ICT tools for shared access on similar devices and applications. It will also create a harmonisation body to proceed towards the harmonisation of procedures of health and well-being living labs. The ICT tools will also enable shared access of similar devices and applications used across living labs. By opening up living lab infrastructures, the project will help to promote research activities in the health and well-being domain in Europe and beyond.

• More info on the project: https://vitalise-project.eu/about/
• More info on the access: https://vitalise-project.eu/transnational-access-to-research-infrastructures/