HORIZON 2020 – WORK PROGRAMME 2014-2015 European research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures)
- spreading of good practices, consultancy and training courses to new users; outreach; - exchange of personnel and training of staff; - coordination with national or international related initiatives and support to the deployment of global and sustainable approaches in the field; - mapping of infrastructures, users, investments, etc, in the specific field for supporting policy developments; - activities to increase the potential for innovation, including social innovation, of the related infrastructure, such as networking with industries (including SMEs), dissemination of research outcome and technology transfer. C. Implementation and operation of clusters of ESFRI and other relevant research infrastructures initiatives Proposals for the implementation and operation phase of clusters of ESFRI, and other relevant research infrastructures initiatives should cover one or more of the following activities: - coordination; - definition and/or harmonisation of common access policies for researchers and management of IPRs and ethical issues; - foresight studies for new common instrumentation, methods, concepts and/or technologies; - development of final prototypes for common key enabling technologies and implementation plans for transfer of knowledge from prototypes to the new facilities; - development of common high performance methodologies and protocols, high performance instrumentation, including the testing of components, subsystems, materials, techniques and dedicated software; - common R&D and engineering work jointly with industry and users; common precommercial procurement processes; - common innovative solutions for data or sample collection, management, processing, curation, annotation, and deposition, including relations with publishers for supporting data and sample deposition services; - innovative software solutions for common research activities - definition of common standards, protocols and interoperability; benchmarking; - integration of distributed infrastructures into virtual facilities; - spreading of good practices, consultancy and training courses to new users; outreach; - activities to improve the efficiency of the research infrastructures' management and of their service provision including pilot provision of trans-national access (following the rules specified for integrating activities) by new research infrastructures to promote exchange of best practise and service provision harmonization; - exchange of personnel and training of staff; - coordination with national or international related initiatives and support to the deployment of global and sustainable approaches in the field; - mapping of infrastructures, users, investments, etc, in the specific field for supporting policy developments; - activities to increase the potential for innovation, including social innovation, of the related infrastructure, such as networking with industries (including SMEs), dissemination of research outcome and technology transfer. PART 4 - Page 55 of 60