FIT FORTHEM is a CSA EU-funded project derived from FORTHEM Alliance. FIT FORTHEM is designed to map joint research and innovation policies – including open science and research agendas – in order to achieve several common and overarching goals of the Alliance. The project will help to sustain joint research activities in the FORTHEM labs with a view to nurturing long-term integration. In FIT FORTHEM, the Alliance will exchange best practices in the research and innovation sector and will work on common strategies for mutual access to partners’ research infrastructures, aiming to overcome local disadvantages and to open up new career paths for researchers and research managers. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101017248.