Research Infrastructures

Research Infrastructure ecosystems form the backbone of science and are a part of the critical infrastructure safeguarding our societal wellbeing, providing the foundation for science-based solutions to global challenges.

This collection was initially created by the International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI), the world’s leading conference on Research Infrastructure. It is open to all eligible researchers working on Research infrastructures.

We invite submissions on topics including but not limited to the following:

• How research infrastructures contribute to addressing Grand Societal Challenges including health pandemics, environmental challenges and the digitalisation of society
• Societal and economic benefits and impacts, and social responsibility of research infrastructures
• International cooperation and the role of RIs
• Developing an integrated RI ecosystem
• Convergence of research infrastructure policy-making with policymaking in other sectorial areas, such as business development, industry, energy, environment, agriculture, health, social affairs or security
• Case studies or examples to demonstrate that the potential of RIs to enact change
• Examples demonstrating impacts of the ecosystem approach to research infrastructures
• Raising public awareness and knowledge about RI, stakeholder management, citizen engagement

Collection advisors: Jan Hrušák (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Ondřej Hradil (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)