The European Commission supports the development of pan-European research infrastructures in cooperation with the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures – ESFRI.
ESFRI has identified projects for new research infrastructures (or major upgrade) in a European Roadmap first published in 2006 and updated in 2008 and 2010. The Roadmap highlights the key new research infrastructures (RIs) needed for European research and innovation over the next decades. It addresses all scientific fields that require large-scale research infrastructures and/or distributed ones, including e-research infrastructures, with a joint effort on European or international scale.
The map shows the location of the pan-European research infrastructures that are listed in the ESFRI roadmap 2010. The location of the distributed facilities is also displayed on the map. About four hundred facilities are part of these distributed pan-European research infrastructures that have been (or are being) set up with the financial support of the European Commission.
The map also displays the European infrastructures that are established as ERIC - European Research Infrastructure Consortium. Ten ERICs have been adopted by the Commission by the end of 2014. Eight of them are part of the ESFRI roadmap.
The ESFRI roadmap will be updated in 2016. The EU will continue to support the development of pan-European research infrastructures under the research programme Horizon 2020.
