Access to research infrastructures, their resources and services: large-scale pilots for more integrated scheme across (sub)domains

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Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes: More efficient access to the best research infrastructures available to researchers and innovators to conduct basic and applied research and foster innovation, irrespective of location. A single-entry point access portal, integrated or interoperable catalogues of services and converging access conditions and selection procedures; A step towards a longer-term sustainable access programme harmonised across different ESFRI domains; Breakthrough and leading-edge research enabled by advanced research infrastructure services, including from emerging facilities, made available to a wider user community, including in emerging areas of research; A new generation of researchers trained to optimally exploit all the essential tools for their research with due attention to early-stage career researchers and researchers from widening countries and candidate countries; Interdisciplinarity and sharing of information, knowledge and technologies across scientific fields with due attention to research security; better management, including implementing FAIR data principles, of the continuous flow of data collected or produced by research infrastructures. Scope: This topic aims at testing ‘access programme like’ projects providing trans-national access (on-site or remote) and/or virtual access to integrated and customised research infrastructure installations and services for excellent research, from frontier and curiosity-driven to applied research, offered by a wide range of complementary and interdisciplinary research infrastructures with experience in transnational access. Access is provided by a core of state-of-the-art research infrastructures as beneficiaries/affiliated entities and by third party access providers on demand. Proposals should adhere to the guidelines and principles of the European Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures[1]. Proposals are expected to address one of the following areas, based on ‘ESFRI scientific domains[2], and must explicitly state which area they address: Area 1, covering the following domains: Physical Sciences and Engineering; Data, Computing and Digital Research Infrastructures Area 2, covering the following domains: Health & Food; Social Sciences and Humanities Area 3, covering the following domains: Environment; Energy. These areas define in which pilot project a research infrastructure identified as a core access provider should be a beneficiary/affiliated entity. On demand third party access providers should expand access opportunities within the area or across-areas for interdisciplinary research. Proposals should make available to researchers and innovators a wide, inclusive and comprehensive portfolio of complementary research infrastructure services of European interest[3], including data services. Proposals should include at least two ESFRI Landmark[4] and/or European Research Infrastructure Consortium…