SLIDE 5 Maybe Preparatory Phase program extracted from: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/ main/h2020-wp1820-infrastructures_en.pdf
INFRADEV-02-2019-2020: Preparatory Phase of new ESFRI projects and early phase support to ESFRI high strategic potential areas2 Specific Challenge: The ESFRI roadmap, updated periodically, identifies the needs of the European scientific community in terms of research infrastructures. However, inclusion in the ESFRI roadmap does not guarantee that these needed infrastructures will be built. Before proceeding with the construction and/or implementation of the identified infrastructures, many preliminary decisions need to be taken with respect to issues such as the identification
- f funders, the financial plan for sustainability, the governance by involved stakeholders, the
site and legal form of the managing organisation (and of the research infrastructure, if different), the architecture and the service policies. The aim of this activity is to provide catalytic and leveraging support for the preparatory phase of ESFRI projects, and to new initiatives in areas of high strategic potential, leading to the construction of new research infrastructures or major upgrades of existing ones.
part A of the section “Specific features for Research Infrastructures”. Proposals should (b) Support to Early Phase for research infrastructure initiatives in high strategic potential areas of research identified in the ESFRI Roadmap 2018 (Research and Innovation Actions) This support aims to foster the development of pan-European research infrastructures in areas demonstrating particularly high strategic potential for the European Research Area, as identified in the ESFRI Roadmap 2018. To this extent activities will include the needed scientific, technical and conceptual work: e.g. the drafting of the new research infrastructure architecture, including the role of the central coordination and the different nodes; the planning of research services to be provided at international level as well as user strategy and access policy; plans to coherently integrate the new infrastructure into the European landscape of related facilities; the estimated budget for construction and operation; plans for an international governance structure, specification of ICT and e-Infrastructure needs. Proposals should explain any synergies and complementarities with previous or current EU grants. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 2 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.