Press Release: Ten major new EU research infrastructures welcomed by European Commission

Infectious diseases, carbon dioxide management, natural disasters warning, space observation: they are among the top priorities areas where 10 new Pan-European Research Infrastructures will be set up. The European Commission is supporting this commitment as a key step in building the European Research Area and addressing the most important needs of society. This new wave of Research Infrastructures was unveiled on 9 December, 2008, at the European Conference on Research Infrastructures 2008, jointly organised by the European Commission and the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), in Versailles. The roadmap will include ambitious projects such as high security labs for research on fatal human pathogens, cutting edge installations to test technologies for carbon dioxide capture and storage, state-of-the-art radars to study the Earth’s atmosphere, infrastructures to better understand the physical processes controlling earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis and new generation telescopes for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy.

European Commission: SPEECH/08/687: Research Infrastructures for Science and Society http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/08/687&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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