For the past two years, the LOMC has set up a platform to study thermal turbulence in the Taylor-Couette system, thanks to funding from the region (call for projects ENERGIE), LABEX EMC3(TUVECO) and MESRI (specific credits allocated to the UHN for this project). This platform was named “THETACO (thermal Taylor-couette facility)” during its integration into the European EuHIT network in 2018 and for its European visibility. The EuHIT renewal project submitted to the APA INFRAIA/H2020 has not been accepted. The aim of the EuHIT network from which the LOMC has benefited on several occasions was to provide European researchers with efficient infrastructures to study turbulence. Further discussions are currently under way to highlight the theme “Great infrastructure” in the future PPAs of the HORIZON EUROPE programme. The LOMC aims to maintain the THETACO platform at a high level of performance, as it is currently the only one available in Europe to study the turbulence of flows induced by rotation and temperature change; thus making it eligible in the future network. The scientific partners at European level already ready to use the THETACO platform are the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus (Prof. U. Harlander and C. Egbers) and the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen (Prof. E. Bodenshatz). The THETACO platform is listed in the INSIS platforms identified in 2018 and in the platforms of the EP2M cluster of Normandie University identified in 2019. The equipment requested in this project will be used to maintain the level of performance of this unique platform in France and Europe.