Research infrastructures (RI) are facilities that provide resources and services for the research communities to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields. Horizon Europe includes six calls on RI services to support health research, accelerate the green and digital transformation, and advance frontier knowledge that might interest you.
The closing deadline is approaching soon: 23 September 2021. Hence, less than two weeks to connect and prepare with your RIs partners in Europe providing trans-national access to researchers or access to research infrastructure.
=> The participation of Brazilian and Mexican legal entities (research infrastructures) will be funded by the Horizon Europe budget on an exceptional basis* (other selected countries outside Latin America as well), to allow for increased international access and services. The Brazilian and Mexican Research Infrastructures should offer research services not available in the EU.
* on the condition that they provide, under the grant, access to their research infrastructures to researchers from Member States and Associated Countries.
Reminding that to submit a proposal to this call, LAC institutions must join a consortium comprised of:
– at least 1 partner from an EU member state and
– at least 2 additional partners from 2 other different countries coming either from EU member states and/or countries associated to Horizon Europe.
See below how to find partners to form a consotium.
What is the EU offering?
For Research Infrastructures: Eligible to receive EU funding as access provider
- the provision by RIs of trans-national and/or virtual access to researchers as well as training for using the infrastructures, and activities to improve, customise and combine the services the infrastructures provide, to facilitate and integrate the access procedures and to further develop the remote or virtual provision of services
For researchers: Eligible to receive EU funding to access Research Infrastructures
- 'free of charge' access to a research infrastructure – visiting/using the infrastructure in person or accessing the remote services of the infrastructure, excellence-based selection of users due – services are limited (e.g. time on a research vessel).
Please, note that Individual researchers are not targeted by INFRA SERV calls as, although they use them, they don’t provide the services of research infrastructures. INFRA SERV grants will create networks of research infrastructures providing services who will launch calls for proposals that will be publicised on their respective websites. Their scientific committees will select researchers who will be provided access to the infrastructures under the conditions specified in their calls.
List of Calls
- HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01-01: Research infrastructures services to support research addressing cancer
- HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01-02: Research infrastructures services for a sustainable and resilient agriculture and agro-ecological transitions
- HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01-03: Research infrastructures services for responding to climate-related risks on the environment
- HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01-04: Research infrastructures services enabling the development of materials for a circular economy
- HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01-05: Research infrastructures services for sustainable and inclusive Global Value Chain and Europe recovery from socio-economic crises
- HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01-07: Research infrastructures services advancing frontier knowledge
More information about Research Infrastructures funding under Horizon Europe can be found here.
How to find partners
First, contact your counterparts in Europe and ask to be part of their proposal.
You can also contact institutions looking for partners on the given call that expressed their interest on the Funding and Tenders portal as follows:
You can also use EURAXESS Partnering tool, contact your peers in Europe and contact the European network of NCPs for Research Infrastructures (below). More here
Important resources
Some projects and resources focused on Research Infrastructures that might help you when it comes to RIs:
- EU-LAC ResInfra: ResInfra pursues the construction of a bi-regional collaboration between European Union and the LAC countries, envisaging a range of different activities that will contribute to this aim.
- CatRIS: an open, trusted and user-friendly portal to a harmonised and aggregated catalogue of services and resources provided by Research Infrastructures (RI) and Core Facilities (CF) across Europe.
- Research Infrastructures Info Day: Watch the information sessions and document library about RIs that took place during the Horizon Europe Info Days 2021
- Brazilian National Contact Point (NCP) for Structure is Priscila Lelis Cagni, MCTI General. The Coordinator for Horizon Europe: Moacyr Martucci Junior (mmartucc@usp.br) and Cecilia Yamanaka Matsumura (Cecilia.yamanaka@usp.br)
- Queries coming from Mexican institutions and researchers, please address to the EURAXESS LAC's Mexico office at lac@euraxess.net
- RICH, the European Network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for Research Infrastructures in Horizon 2020: http://www.rich2020.eu/