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Gamma-Ray Bursts constitute one of the most fascinating and relevant phenomena in modern science, with
strong implications for several fields of astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics. Indeed, the huge
luminosity, the redshift distribution extending at least up to z∼10 and the association with the explosive death
of very massive stars make long GRBs (i.e., those lasting up to a few minutes) potentially extremely powerful
probes for investigating the early Universe (pop-III stars, cosmic re-ionization, SFR and metallicity evolution
up to the ’cosmic dawn’) and measuring cosmological parameters. The combination of extreme distances, the
huge number of photons emitted over about three orders of magnitude in photon energy and the variability
down to few ms makes these phenomena also a uniquely powerful and promising tool for performing tests of
fundamental physics like Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) with unprecedented accuracy. At the same time,
as demonstrated by the GW170817 event, short GRBs (lasting no more than a few s) are the most prominent
electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational-wave sources like NS-NS and NS-BH merging events, and both
long and short GRBs are expected to be associated with neutrino emission. My review will include the status,
concepts and expected performances of space mission projects (e.g, THESEUS, Gamow Explorer) aiming at
fully exploiting these unique potentialities of the GRB phenomenon, thus providing an ideal synergy with the
large e.m. facilities of the future like LSST, ELT, TMT, SKA, CTA, ATHENA in the e.m. domain, advanced
second generation (2G++) and third generation (3G) GW detectors and future large neutrino detectors (e.g.,
Km3NET).