National Research Infrastructures (NRIs)

National Research Infrastructures — 2nd-Step Expression of Interest

Funds Greek research infrastructure consortia building roadmap-ready national and transnational scientific facilities.

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

The National Research Infrastructures 2nd-Step Expression of Interest 2025 is a GSRI call issued in July 2025 under the NSRF 2021-2027 'Competitiveness' Programme that invited consortia pre-selected in the January 2024 1st-Step EOI to submit full four-year development and financial plans for inclusion in Greece's National Research Infrastructure Roadmap 2021-2027. The total action budget is EUR 120 million, inclusive of a potential 15% performance bonus. Maximum public expenditure per proposal depends on RI classification: EUR 4 million for new or existing RIs in a preparatory phase, EUR 6 million for mature RIs in full operation, and EUR 8 million for mergers of existing RIs that retain all original partners. All project expenditures must be incurred by 31 December 2029; the Roadmap caps at a maximum of 20 NRIs.

Only consortia that received a formal invitation letter from GSRI following 1st-step pre-qualification may apply; new entities and RIs rejected at the first step are ineligible. Full proposals must address governance structure, user-access policy, development strategy, Open Science and FAIR data compliance, international affiliations (including with ESFRI infrastructures), and a detailed budget. Equipment costs must represent at least 50% of total project budget — a hard threshold, not a guideline. Five mandatory KPIs must be defined with consortium-set target values: RI usage, number of trained students, additional income generated beyond the ERDF grant, publications acknowledging the RI, and publicly accessible datasets. After the third year of implementation, the Managing Authority reviews KPI achievement; passing unlocks a 15% budget top-up tied to additional deliverables in year four.

Proposals were submitted in English on the dedicated GSIS digital platform (webapps.gsis.gr/dsae/researchinfrastructures) with a deadline of 24 September 2025 at 17:00 Athens local time; the call has since closed. Evaluation used a weighted multi-criteria grid requiring a minimum weighted average of 8 points and at least 7.5 on each individual criterion. Consortia that received a positive outcome were subsequently invited to submit a Technical Project Sheet to the Competitiveness Managing Authority as the formal funding application step.