Attracting management talent for capacity building for Technology Infrastructures staff members (CSA) is an open funding call implemented as a CSA. The indicative budget is €2.5M million.
A combination of factors including rapid technological advancements, inefficient strategic planning, skills gaps, and budget limitations can create sub-optimal technology infrastructure management. Proposals are expected to develop and provide schemes to attract management talent (including but not limited to organisational sciences) to technology infrastructures in EU member states. These management talent schemes should be aimed at attracting talents that will study the technology infrastructures needs, in terms of competencies, skills, organizations, and business models, to deliver more efficiently their services to industry, especially to SMEs, startups and scaleups. Based on this sound understanding of Technology Infrastructures needs, the attracted management talents are expected to both develop and provide advice to Technology Infrastructures senior management and trainings to their staff members aimed at increasing their capacity to develop and provide services to industry. The developed trainings should be sector-agnostic, open-source, accessible remotely, easy to update, and take stock of other existing similar initiatives and experiences in Research and Technology Infrastructures.
The Competitiveness Compass announces initiatives that should be served directly by industry-linked activities in Cluster 4, through new, focused R&I activities, but also through the activities supported up to now:
(i) Clean Industrial Deal adopted in February 2025;
(ii) Critical Raw Materials Act;
(iii) Advanced Materials Communication and future Advanced Materials Act planned for 2026;
(iv) Future Circular Economy Act planned for 2026;
(v) Steel and Metals Action Plan adopted in March 2025;
(vi) European Chemicals Industry Action Plan adopted in July 2025;
(vii) Industrial action plan for the European automotive sector adopted in March 2025; and
(viii) Strategy on research and technology infrastructures, with regard to technology infrastructures and the valorisation of knowledge.