The role of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) is to support a coherent approach to policy-making on research infrastructures in Europe, and to act as an incubator for international negotiations about concrete initiatives.

ESFRI prepared a Roadmap (published in late 2006) which identifies 35 large scale infrastructure projects, at various stages of development, in seven key research areas including Environmental Sciences; Energy; Materials Sciences; Astrophysics, Astronomy, Particle and Nuclear Physics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Social Sciences and the Humanities; Computation and data Treatment. The list covers among others projects as the European Polar Research Icebraker, high power lasers, biobanks, large optical telescopes, high power computing services and the upgrade of the European Social Survey.

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