OHIS Application to the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap

What is a Research Infrastructure?

A research infrastructure is defined as a set of essential facilities, resources, or services—unique in nature and of national, European, or even international scope—designed to conduct or support high-level research activities. It encompasses scientific equipment or collections of major instruments, resources such as collections, archives, and scientific data; digital services and infrastructures; and any other tools necessary to achieve excellence in research and innovation.

Different forms of research infrastructures:

• Single-site
• Distributed
• Virtual

A Research Infrastructure on the National Roadmap must:

• Have a clearly identified, unified, and effective governance, with both strategic and technical/scientific steering bodies;
• Be open to research communities that wish to use it, accessible based on scientific excellence evaluated by peer review; it must therefore have appropriate evaluation mechanisms in place;
• Conduct its own research and/or provide services to one or more user communities, including stakeholders from the economic sector. These communities may be physically present at the site, visit occasionally for specific work, or interact remotely;
• Have a multi-year budget plan and submit a formalized budget to the appropriate governing bodies;
• Be part of a dynamic of open science and ensure proper management of the data life cycle for the data it produces and uses.