Research Clusters & Infrastructures

This section lists research clusters and research infrastructures where software is a core part of activities.

Research Infrastructure(RI) are facilities, resources and services that are used by the research communities to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields.

They include:

• Major scientific equipment (or sets of instruments)
• Knowledge-based resources such as collections
• Archives and scientific data
• einfrastructures, such as data and computing systems and communication networks and any other tools that are essential to achieve excellence in research and innovation

Research Clusters (e.g. Science Clusters) are a network of research infrastructures in a given domain (e.g. astronomy, life sciences, environmentl sciences) that work together to harmonise services, share data and support open science. They provide a structured way to coordinate infrastructures, avoid duplication and for example, create common standards for data, workflows, and training.