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MOMENTUM OF INNOVATION

Summary

The National Research Infrastructure Roadmap (hereinafter: National Roadmap) aims to provide an insight into the op-
eration of major Hungarian RIs, present the nature and the diversity of the domestic RI capacities, increase the national
and international visibility of Hungarian research capacities and opportunities, and provide background information for
identifying further development areas for RIs.

The Roadmap is primarily recommended to domestic, European and international researchers, but it can also be used by
policy-makers and the wider audience involved or interested in domestic research infrastructures. The Roadmap was pre-
ceded by extensive preparatory work covering the entire research sector and is the result of the professional work of the
National Research Infrastructure Committee coordinated by the NRDI Office as well as invited academic professionals.

The first part of the document briefly outlines the backgrounds: the ESFRI Roadmap and its function, and explains why
it is necessary and useful for all countries to prepare their own national roadmaps. When elaborating the National Roadmap,
due consideration was given to the relevance of RIs to Hungarian researchers.

The general background information is followed by the presentation of the methodology used for creating the roadmap:
the definition of the research infrastructures, the process of elaborating the roadmap and the selection criteria applied.
The issues relating to RI funding, monitoring, regular supervision and future development directions are also discussed
here.

The second part of the document presents the selected 26 research infrastructure groups in the 6 ESFRI thematic areas.
Each group covers a larger field of research and comprises all relevant domestic RIs and the research groups operating
them. The groups contain both internationally acclaimed, open RIs representing cutting-edge technologies just like RIs
with a primary focus on their own, internal research. In each infrastructure group, the document highlights those RIs
which have achieved major development in the framework of the large-scale infrastructure development programme in
the past 2 years.

The recently launched large-scale RI development programmes have significantly improved the technological level, open-
ness and networking ability of Hungarian RIs. At the same time, the decades-long lack of RI development funds and the
efforts to secure the exclusive use of RI capacities still have a noticeable impact on research groups. Most importantly
though, there are also clear efforts to integrate domestic RIs and related research groups into the international research
community. This, however, needs further endeavours both from the research community and the policy-makers.

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