# Training and up-skilling of research infrastructures technical staff
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**topic id:** HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-DEV-01
**call id:** HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01
**title:** Training and up-skilling of research infrastructures technical staff
**programme:** Horizon Europe
**cluster:** INFRA
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-09-18T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-05-06T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-DEV-01
**description:** Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes:
• Enhanced expertise and knowledge of technical staff working in research infrastructures, for an optimal functioning of the infrastructure.
• Enhanced mobility and career opportunities throughout Europe for technical staff, including across research infrastructure domains as well as across sectorial careers.
• ‘One-stop-shop(s)’ of training services dedicated to technical staff that meet the needs of different domains. 
 Scope:
In research infrastructures there is the need for staff with an extraordinary blend of scientific, technical and managerial expertise. Considering that highly skilled personnel play a vital role in constructing, operating and implementing research infrastructures and serving users, research infrastructures must be able to attract, up-skill, and valorise specialised staff to exploit their full potential.
This action will support structuring the offer of training activities dedicated to enhancing skills and career profiles of technical staff working in research infrastructures, as ‘one-stop shop(s)’. This would cover activities such as the development of new training programmes addressed to cover specific needs of research infrastructures, training programmes that promote mobility and career opportunities throughout Europe (for example through staff exchange) or that create training opportunities (for example through summer schools or workshops). Programmes may address the improvement of the skills of different professionals working in a single research infrastructure or in a single domain, and may also enhance horizontal key professionals across research infrastructure domains, covering identified common needs such as those related to digital aspects, research data management, Artificial Intelligence (AI) or enhanced remote access. The activities should include the promotion of existing good practices, as well as dissemination and exploitation of successful experiences to a set of relevant stakeholders.
Individual proposals should focus on one specific domain[1] (or sub-domain for the largest ones) as defined by ESFRI but should allocate efforts to contribute to gathering programmes under an overarching training service or entry point across domains to facilitate correlation between training supply and demand and to harmonise and optimise the training services offered. This requires dedicated activities for collaboration with other projects under this topic and, where appropriate, common entry portal or cross-references among portals. Proposals should explicitly state which domain (and sub-domain, where applicable) they are addressing.
To ensure consolidation and evolution of the European research infrastructure landscape, considering notably the development of pan-European research infrastructures prioritised by ESFRI and the ERICs, proposals should include at least one ESFRI Landmark[2] or European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC)[3] as beneficiary. In case of a distributed[4] ERIC, as an alternative to the ERIC participating as a beneficiary, a legal entity that is hosting ERIC facilities, resources or related services may participate as a beneficiary. A declaration signed by the legal representative of the ERIC should confirm that the ERIC is supporting this participation, explain the relevance for the ERIC and describe any further cooperation with the ERIC.
Considering past or ongoing actions identifying training needs is encouraged as well as exploring collaboration with relevant training projects e.g. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions with a research infrastructure dimension. Projects may also build on the past activities and experience gained in projects such as RItrainPlus (Research Infrastructure Training Plus).
Proposals could consider the inclusion of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) Support Services Directorate in their research infrastructure portfolio. The JRC offers its experience in assessing, setting the strategy, maintaining, operating and providing access to external researchers to its research infrastructures in various fields of science. The JRC runs a specific programme that opens its research infrastructure for access to external users for the purposes of training and capacity building, where researchers are trained on the capabilities and use of our experimental equipment. In this regard, the JRC will consider collaborating with any successful proposal.
[1] ESFRI domains: 1. Data, Computing and Digital Research Infrastructures; 2. Energy; 3. Environment; 4. Health & Food; 5. Physical Sciences and Engineering; 6. Social Sciences & Humanities. See ESFRI Landscape Analysis 2024 https://landscape2024.esfri.eu/.
[2] See lists of ESFRI 'Landmarks‘ in the 2021 ESFRI Roadmap on https://roadmap2021.esfri.eu/
[3] European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) | European Commission (europa.eu)
[4] The term ‘distributed’ research infrastructure typically refers to one or a few central hubs and several interlinked (national or institutional) nodes where many components of the research infrastructure may not be part of the same legal entity, the ERIC.
**conditions:** General conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible Countries
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

3. Other Eligible Conditions
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding.

described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
To ensure a balanced portfolio covering a wide range of domains, grants will be awarded to applications not only in order of ranking but at least also to those proposals that are the highest ranked within each domain, provided that the applications attain all thresholds.

are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025). [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf]].

described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.

Specific conditions
 described in the specific topic of the Work Programme

Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):
 Application form templates — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Standard application form (HE RIA, IA)
Standard application form (HE CSA) 
Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations 
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA) 
Standard evaluation form (HE CSA) 
Guidance
HE Programme Guide 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
HE MGA 
HE Unit MGA 
Lump Sum MGA 
Operating Grants MGA 
Framework Partnership Agreement FPA 
Call-specific instructions 
Detailed budget table (HE LS) 
Information on financial support to third parties (HE) 
Information on clinical studies (HE) 
Guidance: "Lump sums - what do I need to know?"

Additional documents:
 HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 3. Research Infrastructures
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 14. General Annexes
HE Programme Guide
HE Framework Programme 2021/695 
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764 
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Decision authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment 
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement 
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
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**keywords:** HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-DEV-01, HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01, Data, Computing and Digital Research Infrastructures, Energy, Environment, Health and Food, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanities
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