Trans-National Access Brainstorm Workshop

27 Jan 2025, 12:00 → 28 Jan 2025, 13:30 Europe/Berlin

Helmholtz Office in Brussels

This workshop aims to gather a small, focused group of stakeholders from ESFRI sectors to explore best practices, challenges, and innovative approaches for the EU's TNA framework. Together, we will draft a skeleton concept in response to the anticipated HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-DEV-05 call.

The workshop is an activity of the EU project ReMade-at-ARI, the scope of which is provision of access to and full support for the use of all relevant European analytical research infrastructures to foster materials research advancing the circular economy. This project pilots some innovative access formats. The development of concepts for future sustainable TNA, based on the own experience and on inputs from the world of research infrastructure at large, constitutes one of the targeted results.

Monday 27 January

12:00 → 13:00 Arrival and light lunch

13:00 → 13:10 Welcome and workshop objectives

13:10 → 13:20 Tour de table

13:20 → 13:30 Overview of the HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-DEV-05 call

13:30 → 14:30 Insights into ongoing TNA -related projects with ambitions, successes and challenges

Flash talks by
o AgroServ
o AI4LIFE
o CanServ
o ISIDORE
o Euro-Labs
o ReMade-at-ARI
o RIANA
o ATRIUM

14:30 → 15:30 Round table discussion “What is TNA?”

Opening statements
o Exploring different access models
o Innovative TNA approaches (e.g. ReMade/ RIANA concepts)
o Understanding user community and facility needs
o Industry perspectives: Addressing the needs and opportunities for SMEs and corporations
o Defining essential components of TNA for excellent service provision
o Defining challenges
o Addressing access and findability of services: locating specific or matching technologies to research project needs
o Co-funding challenges and possibilities

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:45 Round table discussion continued - focus on defining challenges of access and TNA

16:45 → 17:30 AI-mediated service access and user support - ”AI as a main tool to enable TNA - Findability"

17:30 → 18:00 Close of Day 1

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner and informal networking

Tuesday 28 January

08:30 → 08:35 Welcome to Day 2

08:35 → 09:30 Draft forward-looking preliminary concepts for HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-DEV-05

o Identifying tentative “pillars” for TNA approaches
o Discussing current governance, funding and operational models for TNA
o WP outline

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee break

10:00 → 12:00 Draft forward-looking preliminary concepts for HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-DEV-05 continued

12:00 → 12:30 Key take-aways and next steps

12:30 → 13:00 Light lunch and run for transport/ next meetings