92nd ESFRI Forum Meeting
The 92nd ESFRI Forum Meeting will take place on 12 June 2025, in Kraków, Poland.
The Meeting is private, participation is limited to ESFRI Delegates only.
The upcoming series of events in Kraków will begin with the 3rd ESFRI Stakeholder Forum Meetup on 10-11 June at the Auditorium Maximum of Jagiellonian University. The programme includes panel discussions, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities focused on the sustainability of the European Research Infrastructure ecosystem. The detailed agenda of the 3rd ESFRI Stakeholder Forum Meetup is available here.
On 11 June, an open panel discussion on the role of RIs in technological sovereignty, organised by the Polish Presidency, SOLARIS and LEAPS, will follow the Forum.
Participants will also have the chance to join guided visits to local cultural and scientific sites, including Synchrotron SOLARIS. In parallel, ESFRI’s Executive Board, Working Groups, and Roadmap 2026 members will convene for dedicated meetings at SOLARIS.
The programme will conclude with the 92nd ESFRI Forum Meeting on 12 June at Collegium Novum (08:30-16:00 CEST)
A detailed programme ahead of the 92nd Forum Meeting will be published in the coming days.
Tuesday, 10 June
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12:00
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3rd ESFRI Stakeholder Forum Meetup, day 1. Venue: Auditorium Maximum, Jagiellonian University |
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18:00
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Dinner and end of day 1 (Auditorium Maximum, Jagiellonian University) |
Wednesday, 11 June
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09:00
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3rd ESFRI Stakeholder Forum Meetup, day 1. Venue: Auditorium Maximum, Jagiellonian University |
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13:00
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Lunch and end of the 3rd ESFRI Stakeholder Forum Meetup event |
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14:00
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Open panel discussion organised by PL-Presidency/SOLARIS/LEAPS on The Role of Research Infrastructures for Technological Sovereignty of the European Union. |
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15:10
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Site visits for the signed up
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16:00
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18:20
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Transfer to the dinner venue |
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19:00
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ESFRI Forum Dinner |
Thursday, 12 June
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08:30
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Approval | FI25-92-01 FI25-92-02/03 FI25-92-04/05/06/07/08/09 |
1. Opening by the ESFRI Chair Approval of the reports from the previous ESFRI meeting (2/04/2025)
Reports of last EB meetings and joint EB & WG Chairs meetings (27/03/2025, 01/04/2025, 04/04/2025, 24/04/2025, 28/04/2025, 08/05/2025) Proposal for chairing of afternoon sessions of the 92nd Forum meeting |
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08:45
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Info |
2. Report by the ESFRI Chair |
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08:55
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Decision | FI25-92-10 FI25-92-11 |
3. Roadmap 2026
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09:35
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Approval | FI25-92-12 |
4. Monitoring of Landmarks
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10:15
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Coffee Break |
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10:45
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Discussion |
5. ESFRI-EOSC
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11:00
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Approval | FI25-92-13 |
6. Update from ERICs Reflection Groups
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11:05
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Discussion |
7. Report from Drafting Group on Impact Assessment of ESFRI Presentation of report. |
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11:15
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Discussion |
8. Non-Session (restricted participation) RI ecosystem approach |
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12:45
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Discussion |
9. Sustainability of RIs Discussion on further activities to be undertaken by ESFRI. |
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13:00
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Lunch |
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14:00
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10. Report from the European Commission |
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14:15
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Info |
11. Update from Delegations
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14:40
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Coffee Break |
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15:10
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Discussion |
12. Reports from ESFRI Working Group Chairs Working Group Chairs are invited to take the floor (MC covered in separate item above) |
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15:50
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13. Report from Drafting Group on Resilience and Greening of RIs Update on current status and further actions. |
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15:55
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14. AoB and Close Next ESFRI meeting: 20-21/10/2025, Copenhagen, DK |
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16:00
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End of 92nd ESFRI Forum meeting |
Registration form
European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
92nd ESFRI Meeting – 12 June 2025
Kraków, PL
Item 1. Opening by the ESFRI Chair
The ESFRI Chair welcomed attendees and introduced to the Forum all the changes in delegations since the last ESFRI Forum meeting.
Approval of draft agenda
The draft agenda was approved (Annex 1).
Approval of the reports from the previous ESFRI meeting (2/04/2025)
The Chair presented to the delegations the draft report of the 91st ESFRI Forum Meeting held in Brno on the 2nd of April 2025 The report included some amendments received from a delegation. Another delegation made additional comments during the 92nd ESFRI Forum meeting. The report was approved including the amendments.
Reports of last EB meetings and joint EB & WG Chairs meetings (27/03/2025, 01/04/2025, 04/04/2025, 24/04/2025, 28/04/2025, 08/05/2025)
The Chair presented the key activities covered in the last executive board (EB) and joint EB and working group (WG) Chairs meetings.
Item 2. Report by the ESFRI Chair
The Chair presented his participation as ESFRI Chair in several events from April 2025 to June 2025 and announced some upcoming events.
Item 3. Roadmap 2026
The ESFRI Secretariat presented an overview of the proposals submitted to enter the 2026 ESFRI Roadmap as new projects as well as their eligibility for entering the proposal evaluation. The ESFRI Secretariat presented for approval a list summarizing the list of eligible/non-eligible proposals. The ESFRI Chair reminded the Forum that the presented list only pertained to eligibility. The list of eligible proposals will afterwards undergo an evaluation process to review the merits to be considered an ESFRI project in the 2026 ESFRI Roadmap. The Forum approved the list of eligible/non-eligible proposals, which included the acronym and title of the proposal, the lead country, and the eligibility/non-eligibility status.
The ESFRI Secretariat continued presenting the assignment of the eligible proposals to the different Strategy Working Groups (SWGs). The Forum approved the assignment of proposals to SWGs.
The ESFRI Chair presented updates on the preparation of the ESFRI Roadmap 2026. The ESFRI Chair informed the Forum that the monitoring of the 2016, 2018 and 2021 projects is proceeding according to schedule.
Item 4. Monitoring of Landmarks
The Chair of the Monitoring Committee (MC), Mr. Christian Renner (DE) presented to the Forum for approval the final report of the first Monitoring Round, including Lessons Learnt. The Forum approved the final report of the first Monitoring Round. The Chair of the Monitoring Committee also discussed with the Forum the next steps in ESFRI Monitoring.
Item 5. ESFRI-EOSC Task Force
A member of the ESFRI-EOSC Task Force (TF) presented to the Forum an overview of the TF activities since the 91st ESFRI Forum Meeting as well as a list of future activities. The ESFRI-EOSC Task Force will focus its actions on the build-up phase of the EOSC Federation.
Item 6. Reports from ERIC Reflection Group
The ESFRI Chair presented to the Forum the draft document prepared by the "ad-hoc" ESFRI Reflection Group (RG) on ERICs assembled to review and propose enhancements to the ERIC framework in light of the recent revision of the ERIC guidelines (April 10th, 2025). The ESFRI Chair moved to give more time to delegations to send additional comments for their integration and finalization of the document.
Item 7. Report from Drafting Group on Impact Assessment of ESFRI
The ESFRI Chair presented to the Forum the work of the drafting group (DG) on impact assessment of ESFRI to be published in 2027 (ESFRI’s 25th anniversary). Briefly, this DG is preparing a background document stating the rationale, the motivation and the goal of the impact assessment. The ESFRI Chair reflected that the background document still need more work to propose a list of specific impact indicators for which ESFRI will have data.
Item 8. Non-Session (restricted participation)
No reporting
Item 9. Sustainability of Research Infrastructures
The ESFRI Vice Chair Ms. Elena Hoffert presented further reflections on the sustainability of RIs based on the discussions held at the 3rd Stakeholder Forum Meetup which was structured around the central idea of "Sustainability of the Research Infrastructure ecosystem". Finally, the ESFRI Vice Chair presented a list of next steps and opened the floor for discussion.
Item 10. Report from the European Commission
The EC reported on the latest programme developments including the adoption of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025 and the preparation of the Work Programme 2026-2027. The EC also mentioned the adoption of the ERA policy agenda 2025-2027, the upcoming European Research and Technology Infrastructure Strategy, the AI in Science Strategy and Life Sciences Strategy, as well as the adopted EU Startup and Scale-up Strategy. The EC also highlighted preparatory work for the future ERA Act and European Innovation Act.
Item 11. Update from Delegations
Poland
PL presented to the Forum a quick recollection of key achievements during the PL presidency, namely the Warsaw Declaration endorsed by all 27 Member States at the Informal Competitiveness Council (Warsaw, 10-11 March 2025) and the Competitiveness Council on the 23rd of May.
Denmark
The DK delegation presented the political framework for Denmark's Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the second semester of 2025 as well as DK´s foreseen key priorities. DK also mentioned some planned events like the Research and Technology Infrastructure Summit (22-23 October, Copenhagen) and encouraged ESFRI delegates to register.
Canada
The CA delegation presented to the Forum CA´s vision on the science and Infrastructure Ecosystem and an overview of the Canadian system of RIs. The CA delegation presented to the Forum the current CA priorities and RIs and encouraged the Forum to pursue partnerships with CA.
Item 12. Reports from ESFRI Working Group Chairs
The ESFRI chair gave the floor to the Chairs of the Strategy Working Groups (SWG) and Implementation Group (IG) to present updates and news from the WGs.
a. SWG DIGIT
The ESFRI Secretariat informed the Forum on changes in the composition of the SWG, the monitoring of the 2016 projects (5 projects) 2018 projects (8 projects) and 2021 projects (11 projects).
b. SWG Energy
The SWG ENE Chair presented the latest updates regarding ENE. The SWG has finished the report on the monitoring of two Roadmap projects.
c. SWG Environment
The SWG ENV Vice Chair presented the latest updates of the SWG and informed the Forum on the changes in composition of the group. The SWG ENV Chair proposed to the Forum the possibility to consider including 'ad hoc members' for some specific evaluation panels and informed the Forum of a recent presentation given by the ENVRI (European environmental research infrastructures) Community Board Chair.
d. SWG Health and Food
The ESFRI Secretariat presented to the Forum, on behalf of the SWG H&F Chair, the SWG composition and informed the Forum about its preparations for the proposal evaluations and that the SWG held its last meeting online on April 30th.
e. SWG Physical Sciences and Engineering
The SWG PSE Chair informed the Forum of the composition of the SWG and regarding Roadmap 2026 activities the SWG PSE Chair informed that the monitoring of the 2018 projects has been finished. Monitoring of 2021 and 2016 is still ongoing.
f. SWG Social Sciences and Humanities
The SWG SSH Chair informed the Forum on the composition of the SWG with two new members. The SWG SSH Chair continued with updates on the Roadmap 2026. Monitoring of 2018 and 2021 projects is mostly done. For monitoring of 2016 projects external experts are being placed on main/reserve lists.
g. Implementation Group
The IG Vice Chair informed the Forum of the updates of the IG. Regarding Roadmap 2026 related activities the IG Vice Chair pointed out that all are on time and progressing well.
Item 13. Report from Drafting Group on Resilience and Greening of RIs
The leader of the Drafting Group (DG) on Resilience and Greening of RIs informed the Forum presented an overview of the drafting group and its foreseen tasks. The leader of the DG presented the members of the DG and encouraged delegates to join.
Item 14. Any other Business and Close
The ESFRI Secretariat presented an outlook on the 93rd ESFRI Forum meeting (October 20-21, Copenhagen, DK) which will occur back-to-back with the RTI Summit (October 22-23, Copenhagen, DK).
End of the 92nd ESFRI Forum meeting
