European R&D infrastructure roadmap sets out areas of need

Regular analysis process will be revamped, with a stronger strategic role and a new methodology

The body that advises EU policymakers on what research infrastructure they should fund has outlined a renewed set of recommendations in its latest roadmap report, while also announcing that it is going to revamp its process of reviewing the infrastructure landscape.

The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures said in its 2021 roadmap, published on 7 December, that its ‘landscape analysis’ will in future be “decoupled” from the process of producing the roadmap reports themselves. Roadmaps are major reports, six of which have now been published since Esfri was set up in 2022.