Individual implementation and operation of ESFRI projects

Specific challenge: The research infrastructures identified in the ESFRI roadmap or in the European strategy for particle physics have benefitted from EU support for their preparatory phase. Some of them have already moved on to the implementation phase and/or have started their operation. The initial phase is, however, the most delicate and difficult one for new pan-European infrastructures in the process to become fully operational as technologies, services and procedures need to be finalised and best tuned, financial sustainability must be proved and users’ trust and awareness must be gained.

Scope: Under the 2014-2015 work programme this topic will target the implementation and initial operation of new research infrastructures which are identified by ESFRI, in the context of the prioritisation exercise[1], as essential to extend the frontiers of knowledge in the fields concerned and mature enough to be under implementation by 2015-2016. Following the specific conclusions by the C