NordForsk
- Makes the Nordic Research Infrastructure Co-operation Committee (NRICC) a permanent committee within its organization, which, among other tasks manages funding of Nordic research infrastructure collaboration with a budget co-financed by NordForsk and the Nordic funding agencies.
- Communicates information regarding Nordic research infrastructure collaborations on their website and displays links to national lists of existing research infrastructure in each Nordic country.
- Increases the support to networking activities and support to joint Nordic research infrastructure user communities.
- Facilitates cross-border use of national unique single sited national research infrastructures by considering the perspectives of the users as well as the research infrastructure providers.
- Arranges a biannual “Nordic research infrastructure managers meeting”.
The Nordic Heads of Research Councils (NORDHORCS) and its member organisations
- Nominate the members of NRICC to the NordForsk board and give the members a complementary mandate to enable them to act on behalf of their respective organizations.
- Allocate a budget for co-financing of NordForsk research infrastructure calls, calls that should be handled by NRICC and aimed at strengthening Nordic collaboration.
- Regularly discuss joint Nordic activities related to research infrastructures.
- Encourage the national nodes of international distributed research infrastructures as well as national representatives of international single sited research infrastructures to continue and strengthen dialogues aimed at strengthening the Nordic voice in Europe.
- Consider conducting regular joint Nordic assessments of international research infrastructures.
- Discuss different degrees of coordination