The overall objective of the initiative, co-funded by NordForsk and the institutions themselves, is to strengthen international competitiveness and facilitate the development of world-leading Nordic Research Infrastructure (RI) Hub environments based on relevant research and research infrastructure priorities.

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“The requirement of a minimum of 2/3 own funding is significant, and I believe the broad interest in the call demonstrates both the need for and interest in cross-border research infrastructure collaboration in the Nordic region. There is no doubt that these collaborations will strengthen the quality and capacity of research infrastructures and bring about much added value for the Nordic research communities,” says Special Adviser Bjørnar Solhaug Komissar.

These are the 11 networks

Project title: The Nordic Biobank Network (NBN)
Project leader: Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Project partners: Faroe Islands, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden

Project title: A Nordic Research Infrastructure Hub for Structural Biology (NORDSTRUCT)
Project leader: Birthe B. Kragelund, University of Copenhagen
Project partners: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway

Project title: NEXT generation transdisciplinary aging research for NORDic excellence (NEXT-NORD)
Project leader: Debora Rizzuto, Karolinska Institutet
Project partners: Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland

Project title: Nordic Research Infrastructure Hub for Digital Plant Phenotyping (NordPheno)
Project leader: Xiang Su, University of Helsinki
Project partners: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Project title: Nordic Electron Microscopy Infrastructure (NEMI)
Project leader: Jakob Wagner, Technical University of Denmark
Project partners: Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland

Project title: Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructures-II (BNMI-II)
Project leader: Oddmund Bakke, University of Oslo
Project partners: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland

Project title: Nordic-Baltic Dataverse Hub (NaisH)
Project leader: Philipp Conzett, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Project partners: Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands, Latvia and Lithuania

Project title: Nordic Digital Collections RI hub (NORDICO)
Project leader: Matti Sahla​, University of Helsinki
Project partners: Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark

Project title: Nordic Historical Population Data (NordHistPop)
Project leader: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir​, ​University of Iceland
Project partners: Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Canada, Unites States of America and France

Project title: Nordic Optical Fiber Sensing Research Infrastructure Hub (Nordic DAS)
Project leader: Suvi Heinonen​, University of Helsinki
Project partners: Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland

Project title: Nordic Alliance for Single-Cell & Spatial Analysis (NASSA)
Project leader: Markus Heidenblad, Lund University
Project partners: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden