The Belgian Presidency of the Council of the Union, Belspo and Belnet like to welcome you for a Workshop of the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG) with the overarching theme “Sustainable e-Infrastructures for research results valorisation” 
on Wednesday 5 June 2024 from 13:30 to 18:00 CEST. The e-IRG Workshop will take place at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) in Brussels as a hybrid event, attached to the Conference on Research Infrastructures in a Changing Global, Environmental and Socio-economical Context .
Session 1 : One of the Belgian EU Presidency topics on Research and Innovation is improving the valorisation of research results. Valorisation is the process of creating value from data and research results, eventually transforming them into sustainable products and solutions that can benefit society. This is key for reducing the innovation gap, and tailoring academic research with the needs of society, policy-makers, and industries, while stimulating the EU’s industrial recovery and revitalisation. The aim of the session is to highlight the crucial role of e-Infrastructures in this area, spanning several layers and components, with a cross-cutting one being the EOSC and thematic (domain-specific) or generic (domain-agnostic) data infrastructures.
Session 2 : The second session aims to continue the discussions from the Valencia e-IRG Workshop and reflect on the future orientation of Research Infrastructures and its next Work Programme, which includes the topic of sustainability of RIs, and refers to the federation and uptake of e-Infrastructures. The session will also touch upon the concept of federation and role of e-Infrastructures in the new EOSC node-based ecosystem, especially as e-Infrastructures are not formally part of the nodes' ecosystem nor the EOSC procurement projects. The sustainability topic of research infrastructures and e-Infrastructures is also relevant to the new European Research Area policy agenda for 2025-2027.
Contact information : eIRG@belspo.be
Date: June 5th 2024
Place: Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Registration: to the Registration Form
