Distributed Research Infrastructure (DRI) Events

A consortium of Distributed Research Infrastructures (DRIs) and the European Science Foundation (ESF) initiated a programme in 2021 to try to bring together similar projects and provide them with a forum to raise their profile, identify common challenges and share best practice. DRIs form the majority of EU RIs as listed in the current European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) landscape, with many hundreds of small and medium sized DRIs established through EC Funding Frameworks over the past 30. However, to date they have been under-represented as a strategic voice within the RI community.

Initially, a two-day virtual meeting was organised in April 2021. This proved very successful, attracting 130 participants. The outcomes included a recommendation to organise annual meetings to allow the distributed RI community to continue to interact.

A DRI workshop is now organised every six months in the same week as ESFRI meetings hosted in the Member State of the Council of the European Union Presidency.

2023

Distributed Research Infrastructure Workshop – Space and Astronomy RIs, Europlanet Research Infrastructure Meeting (ERIM), 22 June 2023, Bratislava, Slovakia.

2022

Long-term Sustainability of Small and Mid-scale Distributed RI Projects, International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI) Side Event, 19 October 2022, Brno, Czech Republic.

2021

Common Challenges and Actions for Distributed Research Infrastructures in Europe, March 2021, online event