ICRI 2021 is supported with funding from the European Union and is hosted by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and with additional support from Laboratories Canada and the National Research Council of Canada.
Website: http://icri2021.ca/
About ICRI
The International Conference on Research Infrastructures typically occurs every two years. The conference engages policy experts, facility managers, leading researchers and a variety of other stakeholders to discuss challenges and emerging trends for research infrastructures around the world.
Research infrastructures are the tools and facilities researchers require to do their work. It includes things like high-powered telescopes, highly specialized physics laboratories, state-of-the-art genome sequencers or high-tech observation systems for social science studies, to name just a few examples.
The conference will be hosted the first time by a country in North America.
The 2021 conference will build on the discussions and conclusions of the first four conferences. It will also be an opportunity to advance debates about research infrastructure policies that have been ongoing in various international fora.
The goals for this year’s conference are to:
develop a more structured approach to international collaboration
identify lessons learned and best practices in the development and use of research infrastructures
discover areas of common interest, and
build connections between stakeholders and decision makers across the globe.
