European Research Infrastructures - Pathway to Improved Resilience and Digital and Remote Access

Project Information

eRImote

Grant agreement ID: 101057557

DOI

10.3030/101057557

Project closed

EC signature date 2 May 2022

Start date 1 June 2022

End date 30 November 2024

Funded under

• Research infrastructures

Total cost

€ 1 429 880,00

EU contribution

€ 1 429 877,00

Coordinated by

DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY
Germany

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - eRImote (European Research Infrastructures - Pathway to Improved Resilience and Digital and Remote Access)

Reporting period: 2023-06-01 to 2024-11-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The COVID-19-pandemic forced many Research Infrastructures (RI) to quickly set up remote access to their facilities, with little time to exchange on good practices with other RIs in the same field, let alone in other domains. In order to make these experiences accessible to all RI and to ensure a stronger resilience to such challenges in the future, eRImote set out to collect good practices on remote access to RIs and to provide recommendations to RI managers and policy makers.
To reach this main goal, several objectives were defined as shown in figure 1, covering various facets of remote access (see figure 4).

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

eRImote organized multiple workshops and five expert groups to gather information on bottlenecks and good practice on remote access. Experts from the different domains represented in eRImote (see figures 2, 3) achieved considerable mutual learnings across domains. This was one of the strengths of this very interdisciplinary project and has proven to lead to very rich exchanges and valuable collection of material, available on the Information platform.
Five use cases delved deeper into different aspects of remote access, from software over training options to a fully virtual lab. See D4.2 “Remote access use case report” (https://zenodo.org/records/14235482).
The main achievement of the project is the Green Paper, providing recommendations for RI staff, leadership and policy makers to facilitate remote access.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

- Information platform, https://erimote.eu/resources: Collection of good practices on remote access providing a valuable repository for cross-domain information on how to tackle the challenges of remote access, from the logistics of sample shipping to the challenges of keeping users engaged in virtual rather than hands-on training schemes.
- Green Paper: Analysis of the current bottlenecks for remote access and recommendations for RI managers and policy makers
Facilitating remote and virtual access provision by European research infrastructures – requirements, issues, and recommendations by Raess et al., Open Res Europe 2024, 4:152 doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.18023.1.
- Numerous additional reports are available in the information platform and in the eRImote zenodo community https://zenodo.org/communities/erimote ), e.g. on the use cases and on exploitation opportunities with Industry

Fig. 3: eRImote consortium

Fig. 1: Objectives of the eRImote project

Fig. 4: Remote access service categories overview

Fig. 2: Involved and targeted domains of the eRImote project