GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals should address all following aspects:

• demonstrate relevance in relation to ERA, including to the existing landscape, and the advancement with respect to the state-of-art of the new sustainable integrated service or infrastructure;
• highlight the research challenges the new sustainable integrated service or research infrastructure will make possible to address, including at global level;
• indicate the gaps in the research infrastructure landscape it will cover and the synergies with other existing infrastructures at European and global level, including those co-financed from other EU instruments (e.g.: Cohesion policy);
• indicate, when relevant, the potential impact of this research infrastructure at regional level.

Proposals should also convincingly demonstrate that the project will effectively:

• identify suitable IT technologies and the architecture (e.g. single site or distributed, …) for the research infrastructure;
• identify scientific user communities (and their related needs) that will benefit from access to RI services, including scientific data and instrumentation, and plan the research services to be offered to users;
• assess and identify suitable governance models and implement strategies for institutional/stakeholders’ commitment and engagement;
• develop initial financial plans for the implementation and operation of the infrastructure as well as preliminary ideas for long-term sustainability, including synergies with other funds and programmes (e.g.: ERDF);
• develop plans for an efficient data curation and preservation and for the provision of GDPR compliant access to data managed by the infrastructure, in line with the FAIR principles to the extent possible.

When relevant, environmental (including climate-related) impacts and the optimisation of resource and energy use, as well as the gender dimension of cohort studies, should be integrated in the concept development of the new research infrastructures.