FOREU4ALL workshop calls on infrastructure-sharing practices among alliances

The fourth FOREU4ALL Community of Practice Workshop has explored how European University Alliances can foster more open and shared research infrastructures to make them more accessible, sustainable and efficient.

Held in Poitiers (France) on 28 and 29/10/2026, the two-day workshop was titled “Open and Shared European Research Infrastructures: The Accelerator Role of Alliances of European Universities”. It brought together stakeholders from across Europe to explore how European University Alliances can foster more open and shared research infrastructures, such as labs, instruments, databases and collections.

If these infrastructures are essential to scientific progress, their development and maintenance come with high costs. The goal would therefore be to share them between the institutions…