Proposals should address all following aspects:

• demonstrate relevance in relation to ERA, including to the existing landscape, and the advancement with respect to the state-of-art of the new infrastructure;
• highlight the research challenges the new research infrastructures will make possible to address, including at global level;
• indicate the gaps in the research infrastructure landscape the new infrastructure will cover and the synergies with existing infrastructures at European and global level, including those co-financed from other EU instruments (e.g.: Cohesion policy);
• indicate, when relevant, the potential impact of the new research infrastructure at regional level.

Proposals should also provide evidence that the project will effectively:

• identify technologies and develop research infrastructure architecture (e.g. single site or distributed, …);
• identify scientific user communities (and their related needs) that will benefit from access to RI services,
• including scientific data and instrumentation, and develop the planning of research services to users;
• identify governance options and strategic approaches for institutional/stakeholders’ commitment and engagement;
• develop initial financial plans for the RI construction (or major upgrades) and operation as well as preliminary ideas for long-term sustainability, including synergies with other funds and programmes (e.g.: ERDF);
• develop plans for an efficient data curation and preservation and for the provision of access to data collected or produced by the future infrastructure, in line with the FAIR principles.