The Health & Food Research Infrastructures are becoming truly a key pillar of Europe’s endeavour in transition to a healthy planet encompassing healthy population living in balanced environment. Within the priority European Green Deal, Health & Food RIs focus on topics such as climate change, biodiversity, and food securityPolitical Guidelines for the Next European Commission 2019-2024
https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/politicalguidelines-next-commission_en_0.pdf , trying to ensure environment supporting conditions for healthy and diverse population that can cope with major challenges of health including civilisation disorders, healthy ageing, and also infection diseases, all of which affect European community development and economy.

Development of Health & Food RIs is flawlessly in line with the declaration of the European Commission to preserve and restore our ecosystem needs. In the Health & Food domain, Environment meets Health with all its major challenges. RIs are committed for solving challenges such as cancer or recently unexpectedly appearing pandemics and there is also a need to develop new effective and economic solutions for health challenges without compromising the environment.

With a turnover value of € 2.3 trillion and accounting for 8.2% of the EU workforce, the bioeconomy is a central element to the functioning and success of the EU economyA Sustainable Bioeconomy for Europe: Strengthening the Connection between Economy, Society and the Environment (the updated Bioeconomy Strategy in 2018)
https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/publication/sustainable-bioeconomy-europe-strengthening-connection-between-economy-society_en . The ESFRI Roadmap 2018 already highlighted the role of Health & Food RIs as research, innovation and skills hubs boosting the economic development and competitiveness in a global economy. Since 2018, the H&F RIs have all made significant progress – as Landmarks, they are mature and provide a comprehensive service portfolio and comprehensive knowledge to serve the Health & Food communities. RIs designated as Landmarks are expanding their memberships, their knowledge and service portfolio, establishing a strong record of accomplishment in services provided. ESFRI shall thus promote new ways of collaboration among existing RIs and advanced communities, mediate interactions between existing and aspiring RIs to create a fair and supportive milieu where needs of new user communities can be identified and new models of services created by encouraging the clustering of existing RIs for joint services towards advanced communities, building new ways for innovation.

A concrete step forward to be mentioned is the European Life Sciences Research Infrastructures (LS RIs)European Life Sciences Research Infrastructures
https://lifescience-ri.eu/ group which has developed from its original formation as the Biomedical Research RIs within the CORBEL projectCORBEL Project
https://www.corbel-project.eu/home.html . Made up of representatives of the Biological and Medical Research Infrastructures, this group was brought together to establish a model to provide combined multi-RI services that support research spanning from fundamental science to clinical application. Along the way, the model has identified, developed and tested shared processes, which progressively resolved some service and expertise complexity.

To engage the scientific community in developing interdisciplinary research, new clusters among RIs from different sectors should develop including Health & Environment, Food & Environment, Health & Social Sciences, and naturally, Health & Food with agriculture should further proceed.