EMERGE project defined a strategic plan designed to attract and inspire stakeholders from academia, RTOs, SMEs and industry, identified as targets of the dissemination and communication activities, encouraging them to apply for free-of-charge access opportunities to the research infrastructures within EMERGE. Also in line with EMERGE strategy, the FLAPEP KBest repository will be an additional and unique helpful tool for efficient knowledge transfer among the researchers, through an adequate open-data access policy. The KBest platform is currently under internal test within the consortium and with external users with approved TA projects.
To ensure optimized service provision, scientific excellence and potential of innovation, the proposals submitted on the online portal by the research community, during the open calls, must be properly evaluated regarding their technical feasibility and quality of the workplan, and selected according to defined eligibility and ranking criteria that are adjusted according to the abundancy of projects submitted. Within the EMERGE consortium, the TLOs assume a key role in these activities, as they are responsible for the efficient management of the facilities in collaboration with UNOVA MGTT, as well as the expertise and skills available across the consortium. They are also dedicated to user consultancy, local desk-service, technical support and processing of proposals, and coordinate actions in common metrology and protocols.
This way, researchers can exploit the required tools to conduct their project ideas, regardless the location, and acquire complementary capabilities and develop multi-disciplinary skills in the field of FLAPEP through proper training, and create robust and long-lasting collaborations between users and operators of related infrastructures. Yet, it is of major importance to emphasize that this approach is not limited to benefiting only user communities composed of highly skilled research groups. EMERGE also assumes particular relevance to support and empower a wider and newer community of users from all regions of Europe who hold limited expertise, lack of resources, and/ or limited access to open access infrastructures or large-scale facilities to develop their projects.
By the end of EMERGE project, proper platforms and hubs will be established, and industrially compatible fabrication processes to produce feasible, reliable and high-quality flexible sustainable integrated systems and suitable simulation tools to accurately model devices and systems on foils (machine learning) will be developed to be accessed by a wide range of user community.
