The federal research institutions (including but not limited to the FSIs) hold, together or individually, many building elements, sometimes unique, of research infrastructures. A broad range of federal research infrastructure types exist of different scales and scope and at different levels of development. 

Very often, these infrastructures are in the making. They cover facilities, resources or services that are not provided yet to the users in a sustainable and structural way. They are generally the results of previous research and developments such as models, webservices, collection data...

Due to a lack of resources and of strategic investment, these infrastructure elements are often insufficiently developed or used at optimal capacity. Also, those germs of infrastructures are often loosely connected to European or International infrastructures.

The present call aims to stimulate the development, the upgrading and/or the deployment of such emerging infrastructures with an impactful potential on the (inter)national scientific community and/or on society.

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