About us

“Research infrastructures make science happen”. The European Commission recognizes the increasing importance of research infrastructures as a way to boost excellence in research, develop the scientific integration of Europe and attract the best researchers from around the world. The EU needs also to facilitate quick and easy access to research data, to develop attractive career frameworks for researchers, to equip them with the skills they need in a fast-changing global world and to support state-of-the-art research infrastructures. From a societal point of view, new emerging societal challenges, such as climate change, pollution, health crises, and increasing poverty are more and more demonstrating the urgent need of developing solutions and using resources and infrastructures able to provide answers in a quicker and more effective way. By the economical side, the urge of innovative practices and products by civil society is showing the increasing need of a more effective cooperation between research infrastructures and industry. In fact, with their high level of specialization, these facilities are a key element for creating new knowledge and an effective testbeds of innovative devices. For these reasons, Research Infrastructures are called upon to transfer their results outside the academic field. In order to address all these needs, ENHANCERIA aims to identify challenges and opportunities for increasing the sustainability of Research Infrastructures of the Alliance and for strengthening their resources, by building up a community of users.