New technologies and solutions for reducing the environmental and climate footprint of research infrastructures

Research infrastructures require constant technology development to maintain and upgrade their services and to create new ones. The manufacturing capacity of industry is often required for this, and the co-creation of technological components is a defining feature of many research infrastructures.

The expected impact of the activities supported under this part of the destination notably includes:

• Reinforced EU resilience with respect to the availability of critical technical research infrastructure components, considering that research infrastructure operations rely in many cases on technical components or material for which Europe is strongly dependent on third countries.
• More robust research infrastructure innovation ecosystems, building also on activities funded in the past on the development of research infrastructure technology roadmaps and co-creation activities with industry.
• Accelerated digitalisation of research infrastructures throughout their entire life cycle.
• Greening of research infrastructures, by advancing and accelerating the reduction of the environmental footprint of research infrastructures operations, while at the same time contributing to increasing their resilience towards energy crises or other resource restrictions such as water.
• The development of more robust research infrastructure innovation ecosystems, including the development and implementation of common research infrastructure technology roadmaps.

Destination Earth (DestinE) is a flagship initiative aiming to develop a highly- accurate, interactive digital model of the Earth to model, monitor and simulate natural phenomena, hazards and the related human activities. DestinE will provide an operational system to support decision-makers in designing accurate and actionable climate change adaptation strategies and mitigation measures.

The expected impact of the activities supported under this part of the destination notably includes:

• Exploitation of the rapid advances in modelling, observations, digital technologies and ML/AI, ensuring that European leadership in this field is maintained;
• Verification of modelling results using observations of research infrastructures in relevant fields;
• New Digital Twins and use cases to cover unexplored areas/domains, becoming part of the overall ecosystem, addressing EU priorities and evolving end-user needs; multi-disciplinary, horizontal, transversal infrastructure solutions to handle diverse end-to-end workflows spanning various areas.

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