ESFRI Strategy report and Roadmap Update 2010 to contribute to the European 2020 strategy and the Innovation Union Flagship Initiative

May 26, 2011

The “work programme” of ESFRI for the coming years and also the European Roadmap illustrating 48 pan-European Research Infrastructures or major upgrades, corresponding to the needs of EU research communities in the next 10 to 20 years was handed over on 3 May to the European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN.

With an ambitious action plan the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) will help to implement as much of the top level Research Infrastructures on the ESFRI Roadmap as possible to contribute to the European 2020 strategy and the Innovation Union Flagship Initiative.

As to International Cooperation the report is mentioning, among others, that currently discussions are on-going with NSF (National Science Foundation) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) to establish closer cooperation between ESFRI and these organisations in Environmental Sciences.

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