INESC TEC welcomes the European Commission’s consultation on a European strategy for Research and Technology Infrastructures (RTIs) and calls for a cohesive ecosystem approach. RTIs should be treated as enablers across the whole research and innovation chain, from advanced training and frontier research to technology validation and deployment. INESC TEC agrees with the Commission’s diagnosis of fragmented governance, inadequate lifecycle funding, regional asymmetries and weak policy coherence, and points to three remaining gaps in the proposed actions: no permanent monitoring mechanism for Technology Infrastructures, no integrated lifecycle financing, and limited links to mission-oriented industrial policy. It proposes six recommendations covering governance, investment, interoperability, access, widening and mission alignment.
