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COORDINA-INNOV | Horizon Europe INFRA-DEV-05 | Area 3 Thematic Workshop 1 | Landscape Analysis of the Future Co-Innovation Ecosystem 8-9-10 September 2026 Grenoble - France |
Three HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-DEV-05 projects will reshape the Research Infrastructure landscape in the European Commission Framework Programme 10.
About COORDINA-INNOV — Area 3
Europe's large-scale Research Infrastructures (RIs) are global leaders in frontier science — from particle accelerators and photon sources to neutron facilities and life science platforms. They constantly push the boundaries of technology in areas such as superconducting magnets, advanced detectors, precision optics, and AI-driven control systems.
The structural problem: technology development currently happens in short-term, fragmented EU projects (~€10 M over 3–4 years). These timescales are too short to build sustained industrial capacity, maintain critical know-how, or develop the supply-chain sovereignty which Europe urgently needs.
COORDINA-INNOV aims to enhance the strategic coordination and innovation ecosystem of European Research Infrastructures (RIs), Technology Infrastructures (TIs), Research and Technological Organisations (RTOs), and Industry through a structured approach to joint technology development, improving both intra- and inter-community collaboration, and strengthening engagement with industry.
By anchoring in the four pilot communities (LEAPS, AIDAinnova, TIARA, EMBL), and involving neutron facilities (ILL, ESS) and ESFRI domains, COORDINA-INNOV will work on how to turn Europe’s scientific leadership into industrial competitiveness by unifying efforts from both RIs and industry.
COORDINA-INNOV responds by building a sustainable European Co-Innovation Ecosystem. The 11-partner consortium (DESY, CERN, EMBL, ESS, ILL, INFN, CEA, CIEMAT, NIKHEF, PSI, University of Oxford) will:
- Map the European RI technology landscape and identify key actors across communities and ESFRI domains
- Define shared Technology Domains — strategic technology areas where joint multi-year development with industry creates the most value
- Design governance and coordination mechanisms including a Governing Board, Scientific & Technology Committee, and Industry Board
- Explore sustainable long-term funding models (bloc funding, hybrid EU–national–private schemes, SME innovation windows)
- Propose a Co-Innovation Ecosystem for structured RI–industry partnerships.
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Why your presence and input in Grenoble matters: The Thematic Workshop 1 and the associated questionnaire are the first opportunity to give critical input on the design of a new RI-industry ecosystem and subsequent phases of the two-year COORDINA-INNOV project. |