Objective
Europe’s Research Infrastructures (RIs) are strategic assets for frontier science, industrial innovation, and public policy delivery. Yet the funding landscape remains fragmented, opaque, and misaligned with RI lifecycles, public missions, and evolving policy priorities, undermining sustainability and preventing the development of effective synergies across governance levels and funding instruments.
FUND-RI offers a systemic, evidence-based response. It moves beyond fragmented practices by building a toolbox of validated business models and actionable recommendations for funding, governance, and strategic alignment. It focuses on what works, under which conditions, and for whom, using stakeholder co-creation and comparative case studies to support uptake.
FUND-RI will deliver:
- A systemic map of funding streams across all RI lifecycle stages.
- A typology of business and funding models, tested against real-world cases.
- A validated cost estimation methodology applicable to all RI types, with special focus on distributed configurations.
- A strategic set of policy recommendations and an uptake toolkit for both funders and RI managers, supporting long-term sustainability, multi-level and system-wide alignment.
The project addresses persistent barriers: disconnected funding streams, weak lifecycle foresight, underdeveloped synergies, and poor integration with policy-driven priorities. It also develops novel approaches to RI sustainability, ensuring alignment for scientific excellence, industrial innovation needs, public policy objectives, and overall lifecycle needs.
Strategically designed, FUND-RI will support the next EU Framework Programme (FP10), ESFRI evolution, and ERA policy implementation.
With a compact, high-capacity consortium of ERICs, universities, RTOs, and policy think tanks, all acting as RI hosts, managers, or policy contributors, FUND-RI will help aligning funding, governance, and access with the needs of science, industry, and society.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
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Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
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
MAIN PROGRAMME
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Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01
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Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
4200 465 PORTO
Portugal
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.