Euro-BioImaging plays an active role on the European stage, and is heavily invested in direct EU stakeholder engagement and collaborations on the European level, including via the European Research Infrastructure Consortium Forum (ERIC Forum), the European Strategy Forum on Research and Innovation (ESFRI) Stakeholders Forum, Life Science Research Infrastructure (LS RI) Strategy Board and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Via these pathways, Euro-BioImaging Hub team members raise awareness of imaging infrastructures and influence European policy to support research infrastructures, open science, open data and AI.
ERIC Forum is the bottom-up organisation of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Via the Forum, ERICs speak with one voice to their major stakeholders and, therefore, the ERIC Forum is one of the leading science policy voices in Europe.
Euro-BioImaging Bio-Hub Director, Antje Keppler, was Chair of the ERIC Forum for two consecutive terms, from January 1, 2023-January 1, 2026. Under her strong lead, the Forum continued to grow as a trusted partner for the European Commission, ESFRI, and the ERIC Committee, providing important input to policy discussions on sustainability, access, and governance of large-scale RIs, and nourishing the new Strategy on European Research & Technology Infrastructures.
In addition, the Euro-BioImaging team is active in the ERIC Forum 2 project, leading Work Package 6 at the forefront of aligning ERICs with EU policy priorities, specifically for user access and enhancing visibility in national arenas.
The ESFRI Stakeholders Forum is a platform established by ESFRI in 2022 with the ambition to instigate an open dialogue among the different European research infrastructure stakeholders, in order to reinforce the position of Research Infrastructures (RIs) as an essential pillar of the European Research Area (ERA).
The Life Sciences Research Infrastructure (LS RI) group aims to represent its stakeholders and users in the strategic planning of the European RI ecosystem. The LSRI works to improve the integration and interconnectedness of their services and activities and keenly engage with RIs in other thematic domains. Collectively, it supports a fully integrated RI universe that will underpin the ambitions of the European Research Area (ERA).
The European Open Science Cloud is a technological and policy endeavour that aims to create a “Web of FAIR Data and Services” for science in Europe. It will enable a trusted virtual environment, based on common core functionalities, to support Open Science. Key digital infrastructure, data, and services will be accessible to researchers, to help them store, share, process, analyse and reuse FAIR research outputs within and across disciplines.
December 18, 2025
The European Commission recently launched the Resource for AI Science in Europe (RAISE) at the AI in Science Summit held in Copenhagen in early…
December 15, 2025
We are delighted to share a new White Paper, “Building an Intercontinental Research Infrastructure Ecosystem in Health and…
December 11, 2025
We are delighted to announce that Euro-BioImaging Bio-Hub Director Antje Keppler has been elected to the EOSC Association…
November 28, 2025
For two consecutive terms, starting in January 2023, Euro-BioImaging Bio-Hub Director Antje Keppler has served as Chair of the ERIC Forum, a group…
November 5, 2025
BRUSSELS—At the EOSC Symposium, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) took a major step toward its consolidation as Europe’s research and innovation data space.
October 31, 2025
On October 22-23, we were proud to represent European imaging excellence at the Research and Technology Infrastructure (RTI) Summit 2025, hosted by the Danish…
September 24, 2025
From September 16-19, 2025, representatives of European and Australian Health Research Infrastructures gathered at the Monash University Prato Centre in Prato, Italy. The Euro-BioImaging…
September 23, 2025
The European Commission has published its new Strategy on Research & Technology Infrastructures that aims to “make the EU the best place in the…
April 9, 2025
EIC Summit 2025 Last week, Strategic Business Developer Claudia Pfander and Anne-Charlotte Joubert, Senior Officer for European Affairs, represented Euro-BioImaging at the European…
January 31, 2025
Euro-BioImaging was excited to take part in the ERIC Forum Annual Meeting and Satellite Industrial event held this week in Brussels. This event brought…
November 26, 2024
In a significant boost for innovation, Euro-BioImaging has joined the EIC Ecosystem Partnership Programme to provide cutting-edge imaging technologies and expert consultancy services through…
November 15, 2024
Earlier this week, four Euro-BioImaging Nodes accompanied by Claudia Pfander, Euro-BioImaging’s Strategic Business Developer, participated in a 2-day IHI Brokerage event in Brussels, designed…
November 14, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Euro-BioImaging Bio-Hub Section Director, Antje Keppler, was unanimously elected for a second term as ERIC Forum Chair by…
November 11, 2024
On Monday, November 4th, Euro-BioImaging and the European Innovation Council (EIC) took a significant step forward in their collaboration by organising a joint matchmaking…
August 29, 2024
Today, we had the privilege of welcoming Marc Lemaître, Director-General of the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), to Euro-BioImaging’s headquarters in Turku,…
August 28, 2024
We proudly celebrate the publication in Science|Business of the report on the “Enhancing SME Access to European Research and Technology Infrastructures: A Pathway…
June 26, 2024
At a time when sustaining competitiveness and innovation is becoming a major strategic issue for the European Union, two well-developed ecosystems could, almost organically,…
June 7, 2024
The Conference on Research Infrastructures, organised by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, took place on June 4-5 in Brussels…
December 4, 2023
Between September 25-26, representatives of the ERIC Forum, the organization which brings together the ERIC community to strengthen its coordination and enhance collaboration, attended…
June 27, 2023
On June 19-20, 2023. European leaders and Research Infrastructure directors met in Lund, Sweden, for a high-level conference on “The Potential of Research Data:…
October 12, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Euro-BioImaging Bio-Hub Director, Antje Keppler, has been elected by her peers, the Directors of 24 European Research Infrastructure…
July 19, 2022
The European Open Science Cloud is a multi-disciplinary federated cloud environment where researchers can publish, find and re-use data, tools and services. The EOSC…
May 5, 2022
Euro-BioImaging’s Bio-Hub Director, Antje Keppler, has been selected by her peers to represent the Life Science research infrastructures (LS RIs –…
March 21, 2022
Euro-BioImaging ERIC strongly opposes the war launched on Ukraine and mourns the loss of life, the destruction of property and the disruption of collaborative…
September 13, 2021
As the UN General Assembly gears up for its 76th Session in New York City this month, the European research infrastructure community is excited…