General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI), in its capacity as the public institution competent for Research, Technological Development and Innovation policy, has formulated a National Strategy for Research Infrastructures as well as a Multiannual Financial Plan for Research Infrastructures, highlighting the country’s priorities for long-term investments in large-scale research infrastructures. This is an initiative based on internationally accepted practices relied upon by most EU Member States. It must be noted that developing a National Strategy and a Multiannual Financial Plan for Research Infrastructures is an ex-ante conditionality for receiving structural fund financing in the new programming period (2014-2020).

It is important to underline that the concept of research infrastructures is not limited to buildings and equipment, but also encompasses human resources, know-how, information, networking and all intangible assets required for their operation and optimal use. GSRI has designed and implements a transparent and robust procedure, based on European standards, to document the needs of the Greek research community and productive sectors as regards research infrastructures, to promote the required synergies and collaborations, to assess and to eventually identify the integrated national-scale, open-access infrastructures with an outward-looking, sustainable and innovation-supporting character, which will have to be build and put into operation, as a priority, during the new programming period and beyond.

In this section you will find the Multiannual Financial Plan for Research Infrastructures as well as key milestones in the preparation of the plan.