Our service offers expertise and organization of research infrastructures :

What is a research infrastructure?

A research infrastructure represents a unique "tool" of resources and services, of a high standard for the use of a large scientific community, whether it is to be public or private, from a region, or from one or several countries. The concept of research infrastructure is large and applies to a wide spectrum of disciplines: Materials, Social sciences and the Humanities, Astronomy, Astrophysics Nuclear and Particle Physics, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Material Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, Environment Sciences, Energy, Engineering, Computer and Data Treatment

A research infrastructure can be constructed on a single site (for example, a particle accelerator) or distributed to many distant sites (for example a Central data service based on many observation stations).

Our services aim to assist the sponsors, the Scientific Director or the Project manager in the preparatory phase, before the decision for launching the construction in order to :

• Earn the trust of research institutions, other potential sponsors and authorities involved in the decision process.
• Satisfy the users of the infrastructure.

Our service covers the organization including all aspects of governance up to the choice of the legal form, the management plan for the control of all costs (investment, running costs, human resources and contingencies) for the phases of the project, the interfaces with all external parties (factories, services, laboratories ...) contractual relationships, and documentation.

Our services are aimed at all scientists having a project such as :

• research infrastructures from the French roadmap established by the governmental authorities http://media.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/file/07/4/40074.pdf
• research infrastructure supported by ESFRI (European Strategic forum for research infrastructure) http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/
• Space projects : ex : payload of satellites
• New projects associated with existing research infrastructures

What is a research infrastructure?

A research infrastructure represents a unique "tool" of resources and services, of a high standard for the use of a large scientific community, whether it is to be public or private, from a region, or from one or several countries. The concept of research infrastructure is large and applies to a wide spectrum of disciplines: Materials, Social sciences and the Humanities, Astronomy, Astrophysics Nuclear and Particle Physics, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Material Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, Environment Sciences, Energy, Engineering, Computer and Data Treatment.