Project description
The future workforce of European research infrastructures
Across Europe’s research infrastructures, increasing technical complexity is resulting in a shortage of a skilled, adaptable, and mobile workforce, which is needed to sustain world-class scientific services. The EU-funded THRIVE project is building a sustainable framework for continuous professional development of research infrastructure staff. It delivers harmonised training, mentoring, and mobility schemes, as well as support for innovation and knowledge exchange. It also introduces a career path model and a core competency framework to improve the recognition and progression of technical staff. Through a curriculum covering digital skills, AI, green practices, and operational expertise, co-developed with industry, THRIVE aligns training with emerging technological needs. A training portal consolidates resources, enhancing skills development, cross-border recognition, and long-term sustainability of Europe’s research infrastructure ecosystem.
Objective
THRIVE (Training for High-Impact Resilience, Innovation, Versatility, and Excellence) responds to the urgent need for skilled, mobile, and future-ready technical staff in Research Infrastructures (RIs). As the operational and technological complexity of RIs increases, THRIVE provides a structured, sustainable framework for continuous professional development of RI staff through harmonized training, mentoring, and mobility schemes.
THRIVE significantly supports the excellence and long-term sustainability of Euro-BioImaging ERIC and the European imaging community. Through its focus on combined mentoring and staff mobility, THRIVE reinforces collaboration and innovation across the Euro-BioImaging Nodes, increasing skill and knowledge sharing, and enhancing the connectedness of the RI’s technical workforce. The recognition and career development of RI staff will be underpinned by a defined career path model and a core competencies framework for imaging RI staff.
Through a training curriculum focused on digital skills, AI, green practices, and operational skills, THRIVE addresses common RI challenges and fosters cross-domain expertise. Training and mobility schemes co-developed with industry ensure alignment with emerging technology and innovation needs, increasing the competitiveness and capacity for innovation of the European imaging community.
A central training portal unites the THRIVE training modules with community-developed resources and enhances accessibility of imaging technology and RI operations training. Curating training resources into career-path-specific learning pathways aligns training standards across the RI and promotes recognition of skills across borders and domains.
By investing in human capital at the RI – from pre-RI and early career staff to facility leadership – THRIVE directly contributes to the sustainability, capability, and optimisation of the European RI landscape, in full alignment with INFRADEV priorities.
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.1.3 - Research infrastructures
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01
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20521 Turku
Finland
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