21 cutting-edge infrastructures make it to Finland’s research infrastructure roadmap

The Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee (FIRI Committee) within the Research Council of Finland has granted 21 research infrastructures roadmap status. This means the selected infrastructures will be included in Finland’s national roadmap for research infrastructures 2025–2028.

The roadmap for Finnish research infrastructures is a tool for the research community, policymakers and funders to guide investment and support research, development and innovation. The aim of the roadmap is to ensure that research infrastructures remain internationally competitive, are able to respond to both current and future scientific challenges, generate new knowledge and expertise and interact with RDI actors.

The national roadmap supports the multiannual plan for the use of central government research and development funding. The previous national roadmap of research infrastructures was published in 2021.

The roadmap call opened in 2024 was based on the long-term plan for research infrastructures 2030 (PDF). The plan presents a strategic vision that excellent research infrastructures are the foundation of high-impact research, development and innovation. The research infrastructures selected to the roadmap contribute to the objectives of the long-term plan.

The research infrastructures selected to the 2025–2028 roadmap will provide, for example, key technologies, geospatial data, high-performance computing and cloud computing infrastructure services to address key environmental and health issues and support research in geosciences, marine ecosystems, synthetic biology and bioproduction.

The selected research infrastructures can produce diverse and impactful knowledge for the needs of the scientific and academic community as well as the public and private sectors in areas such as biology, medicine and structural biology. They will also provide services in humanities and social sciences research through large language models, artificial intelligence and register-based data. In addition, they can offer significant additional opportunities, for example in the integration of digital technologies and human-centred research, wireless and quantum technologies, the development of hydrogen technologies and participation in major international cosmology observation projects.

See the list of all new roadmap research infrastructures (PDF).

Floora Ruokonen, Chair of the FIRI Committee, said: “The roadmap research infrastructures are a key part of Finland’s research, development and innovation system. They contribute to scientific renewal and societal reform and serve as a platform for cooperation at national and international level, attracting talent from other countries.”

The FIRI Committee has outlined that the research infrastructures selected to the roadmap will be granted funding. A total of 130 million euros in funding is available for the roadmap’s research infrastructures. Some of the selected research infrastructures received their funding decisions in December, while the remaining infrastructures will receive theirs at the end of January 2025.