Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 22 ISSUE 3
Written by Maria Luiza PASCAL, Adrian TUREK-RAHOVEANU

The purpose of this article is to provide an insight of a distributed research infrastructure and its roadmap in the pursuit of becoming fully operational. The article presents an overview of the stages in which IBA Bucharest was involved in the creation of METROFOOD-RI. METROFOOD-RI is a distributed pan-European research infrastructure listed in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) Roadmap in 2016 as an Emerging Project and subsequently, in ESFRI Roadmap in 2018 as an Active Project, sustained in this way, to make progress in legal, technical and financial terms so that it could reach the maturity level necessary to be implemented. METROFOOD-RI fits perfectly in the ESFRI domain of Health & Food, tackling the pressing societal challenges, especially in the agri-food sector by providing high-quality metrology services in food and nutrition. The document describes the path that METROFOOD-RI had to follow so far, its structure, vision, mission, and objectives, as well as the infrastructure architecture and its role in the research landscape. At present, METROFOOD-RI has completed the Preparatory Phase and its partners are about to submit the 1_st application form for becoming a legal entity METROFOOD ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium).

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