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• Σχόλιο του χρήστη 'Εθνική Τεχνολογική Πλατφόρμα «Food for Life»' | 20 Ιουνίου 2011, 13:40

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  There are certainly a series of research infrastructures of relevance for the European Union as such, which in principle warrants increased support to ensure the long-term sustainability and survivability of such infrastructure. As many of these research infrastructures are very costly, a balance has to be struck between adequate support to research infrastructures on the one hand and secured funds to RDI projects on the other. The issue is largely related to the overall financial envelope allocated to RDI during the next MFF of the EU. Industry involvement in research infrastructures of European relevance should be enhanced, both from a user and supplier perspective. Networks like the European and the National Technology Platforms (Hellenic Technology Platform “Food for Life”) should be considered as useful tools to contribute to the research priorities of FP calls and ensure their relevance to the local capacities and potential. It is important to give a role and some resources to finance the coordination activity of National Technology Platforms (bottom – up approach of industrial priorities). A regular update and timely implementation of the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures) roadmap have to be aligned with the actions and objectives defined within the new CSFRI to tackle the grand societal challenges. Member States must be encouraged to take the ESFRI roadmap as guidance for defining an own national Research Infrastructure roadmap, where possible making use of structural funds and by earmarking national budgets for large research infrastructures. A good example for this are the 3 new pan-European research infrastructures in the field of energy, put forward by Member States and Commission: a wind research facility to be built in Denmark, a concentrated solar power installation to be realised in Spain, and a nuclear research reactor to be constructed in Belgium. Amplify the concept of “research infrastructures”, involving also private structures and all companies, in particular SMEs. In the food sector, where fragmentation is – inevitably – high, an important infrastructure could be the European Food Academy.