"To be or not to be"… How can your RI be impactful?... "That is the question"

Sustainability of research infrastructures (RIs) is a big challenge for funders, stakeholders and operators, as is the adoption of adequate management tools including tools for monitoring and evaluating their performance and impact. The foundations of BioData.pt, the Portuguese RI of Biological Data and Portuguese node of ELIXIR, were laid under the “Building BioData.pt” project. During this project, performance and impact indicators were collected and analysed under the light of international guidelines for assessing the performance and impact of European RIs. The case presented herein benefitted from several exchanges with BioData.pt and ELIXIR colleagues to facilitate a collective reflection on how to adapt and adopt European frameworks and recommendations to the national landscape and specificity of activities, to support the management of national RIs