Infrastructures

In accordance with the French national strategy on research infrastructures (Feuille de route nationale des Infrastructures de recherche ) and European strategy for research infrastructures, ANRS Emerging Infectious Diseases initiative is part of France’s commitment to meeting the ever-changing demands of knowledge and innovation. It aims to give French research its rightful place in the world by participating fully in the dynamics of recovery and transition driven by the Plan France 2030 and 4e Programme d’investissements d’avenir (PIA). This is carried out in full compliance with pan-European infrastructure policies.

What is a research infrastructure?

A research infrastructure is a unique, essential facility providing resources or services of national, European or international scope, designed to conduct and support high-quality research.

These infrastructures include major equipment or sets of instruments, knowledge-related facilities such as collections, archives or scientific data infrastructures, computing systems, communication networks to conduct research and foster cutting-edge innovation.

They should:

• possess identified, centralised and effective governance and scientific steering bodies
• be open and accessible on the basis of scientific excellence evaluated by international peer groups – they must therefore have adequate evaluation bodies
• be able to conduct a specific research project and/or provide services to a user community (including players from the economic sector) either on-site or interacting remotely
• have a financing plan and be able to produce a consolidated budget
• be part of a dynamic of open science and control of the lifecycle of the data produced and used