In recent years, the role of research infrastructures as providers of high-level instrumentation and highly specialized skill has strongly increased owing to the need of optimum management of extremely expensive instrumentation of high complexity. The corresponding modification in the management of the research activity where the laboratory results have to be integrated with experiments carried out in large research infrastructures of public access poses, besides new opportunities, also new and often unexplored problems. The interaction among different structures has to be optimized as well as the interaction among different research teams, the intellectual property has to be managed as well as the time and access modes. Even more complex is the building up of delocalized research infrastructures organized as a network of independent laboratories. Moreover, the recently funded initiatives, both in the framework of Research Infrastructures and of Technological Infrastructures for Innovation, within the Next Generation EU Plan (PNRR) have strongly boosted the investments in Italy in this field. It is mandatory to frame these new initiatives within the broader framework of all national initiatives in a coordinated and inclusive scheme of synergy, management, best-practices sharing and governance.

The Round Table has the aim of opening a dialogue among all the players involved in setting up, management and operation of research infrastructures and potentially interested in the use of infrastructures, providing them with information on both technological and organizational-managerial characteristics for the realization of a network of research infrastructures, while collecting opinions and suggestions on the optimum management approach.

The themes on the table span from the needs in terms of operative structure, operator skills, to the instrument characteristics and their evolution strategy.

We expect to stimulate in this way, further interests of operators thanks to a greater awareness of the potential offered by individual infrastructures and their integration.

The Round Table starts with the panelists listed below, being participation open and free upon online registration. For those interested to be included in the list of panelists, please, send the request to the chairs Vittorio Morandi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Marco Rossi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Lazio Region
Dept. for Economic Development, Commerce and Handicraft, University, Research, Start-Up and Innovation

Micron Technology
Italy Country Manager

ISS
Director of the Technical Scientific Service Large Instrumentation and Core Facilities

BU INDUSTRY – RINA
Head of Directorate R&I and Tenders