Research infrastructure concept development including major upgrades or extensions of existing infrastructures

Expected Outcome:

Projects are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

• support to planning and decision making for research infrastructures at the national (e.g. funding bodies, governments) and European level (e.g. ESFRI) through solid science cases, including expected scientific breakthrough, gaps analyses and feasibility/design studies for future research infrastructures or major upgrades or extensions of existing ones;
• a better alignment of the development of the European research infrastructure landscape with the advancements of excellent science, frontier research and technology innovation;
• increased performance, scientific capacity and excellence of the European