Distributed Research Infrastructures in Europe Workshop 2025
Impact, Industry Engagement, Research Security and Dual Use
Dates: 20-21 October 2025
Venue: Industriens Hus, H. C. Andersens Blvd. 18, 1553 København, Denmark
Deadline for In-Person Registration: Thursday, 16 October
This 1.5 day meeting is organised ahead of the RTI Summit 2025. The morning session of Monday 20 October will be focused on collaboration between astronomy and space-related infrastructures and networks. The rest of the meeting is open to all Research Infrastructures (RIs) in the European Research Area (ERA).
Programme
Monday 20 October – Pre-Meeting: Astronomy & Space Science Network of Networks (NEONs)
- 08:45-09:00 Coffee
- 09:15-11:00 Astronomy & Space Science Network of Networks (NEONs)
- Update and discussion on structure, status and opportunities for collaboration
Monday 20 October – Distributed Research Infrastructures in Europe Workshop 2025
- 11:00-11:30 Registration
- 11:30-13:00 Session I – Interactive Workshop on Impact Evaluation (Part 1)
- Introduction to impact evaluation (Jen DeWitt, Independent Evaluation Consultant)
- Approach, experiences and learning from an RI evaluation (Bianca Schmitt, Acting Head of Strategy, EMBL)
Break: Lunch is not provided, but Tivoli Food Hall and other food outlets are close by.
- 14:00-15:00 Session II – Interactive Workshop on Impact Evaluation (Part 2)
- Panel discussion and evaluation surgery
- 15:00-15:30 Break
- 15:30-17:00 Session III – Industry Engagement, Research Security and Dual Use
- 15.30 The new EC Research Infrastructure Strategy.
- 16.00 Technology Infrastructures
- 16.15 Academic-Industry collaborations: Case Study of Stellar Discoveries (Elias Chatzitheodoridis, Stellar Discoveries P.C.)
- 16.45 Academic-Industry collaborations: Industrial Use of the Aarhus Wind Tunnel (Jon Merrison, Aarhus University, and Simone Silvestro, INAF)
Tuesday 21 October – Morning Session: Distributed Research Infrastructures in Europe Workshop 2025
- 09:00 Coffee
- 09:15-10:15 Session IV – The Research Infrastructure Landscape
- 09.15 Distributed RI White paper (Oguz Ozkan, ESF)
- 09.45 EPJ Journal Research Infrastructures (Christrian Caron, Springer)
- 10.15-10:30 Break
- 10:30-12:00 Session V – Research Security and Dual Use
- 10.30 Research Security and Dual Use
- 11.55 Next meetings 2026 (Cyprus, Ireland) 2027 (Lithuania, Greece)
Registration is now closed.
Venue Location
Image: Industriens Hus, Copenhagen. Credit: Kontraframe / Thorbjørn Hansen.
