Some of the most critical research fields for Europe's robustness and technological sovereignty are slated to receive new and advanced facilities in the Ministry of Education and Research's new Roadmap for Research Infrastructure 2025, which has just been published.
Four projects with DTU as the main applicant are included in the roadmap and will focus on real-time simulation of the energy system, technology for modern nuclear and fusion power plants, and the design and production of advanced microchips, respectively.
All of these are crucial to the research and innovation that will ensure Denmark's and Europe's future competitiveness and robustness, says DTU's President, Anders Bjarklev:
"A stable and secure energy system and the ability to develop and manufacture chips ourselves are some of the pillars on which the Europe of the future must stand. With two major research infrastructure projects receiving immediate funding and two others highlighted as strategically important, DTU is continuing its nearly 200-year tradition of providing knowledge that benefits society and enables us to make informed, fact-based decisions," he says.
Anders Bjarklev sees the fact that four such large and important infrastructures at DTU are highlighted in the roadmap as a product of the university's long-term strategic work with technologies that are critical to society:
"Projects of this magnitude are based on knowledge and experience that our leading research environments within microfabrication and energy systems and production have built up over decades. DTU already operates a number of national research infrastructures for the benefit of Danish companies and researchers throughout Europe. I am very pleased that we now have the opportunity, together with our partners, to raise the level of ambition even further with new world-class research infrastructures," he says.
DTU currently operates national research infrastructures in a number of research fields. These include the research vessel DANA IV, the Poul la Cour wind tunnel, and DTU Nanolab.
Learn more about the four new projects below.
