ELIXIR’s long-term sustainability plan provides an overview of previous, current and future actions that aim to support the sustainability of bioinformatics resources across ELIXIR’s Nodes. These actions are articulated around four main objectives:
- Identify the scale of the funding challenge;
- Promote the development of fit for purpose funding models for sustaining open and free bioinformatics resources;
- Use excellence and quality of ELIXIR’s bioinformatics resources as drivers of sustainability;
- Demonstrate and communicate the impact of ELIXIR and its bioinformatics resources.
This Plan addresses many of the recommendations from:
- the recommendations of the Long-Term Sustainability Working Group of the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI);
- the European Commission Staff Working Document on the long-term sustainability of research infrastructures (page 9).