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Importance of Research Infrastructures for Europe

European Life Sciences Research Infrastructures The EU actions Jean-Emmanuel Faure European Commission jean-emmanuel.faure@ec.europa.eu. Importance of Research Infrastructures for Europe. Facilities, resources, and related services used by the scientific community

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Importance of Research Infrastructures for Europe

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  1. European Life Sciences Research InfrastructuresThe EU actionsJean-Emmanuel FaureEuropean Commissionjean-emmanuel.faure@ec.europa.eu

  2. Importance of Research Infrastructures for Europe • Facilities, resources, and related services used by the scientific community • At the core of the Research, Innovation, Education triangle • Extending the frontiers of knowledge • Supporting industrial innovation • Exchanging and transmitting knowledge • Training the next generation of top researchers

  3. Challenges Our global position Japan 3.5 Korea 3.0 USA 2.5 R&D intensity (%GDP) 2.0 EU-27 1.5 China 1.0 0.5 0.0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Source: European Commission STC key figures report 2008/2009

  4. ChallengesResearch Infrastructures • Fragmentation in Europe • Many stakeholders and policies • Efficiency of services and access to European research infrastructures • Increasing costs and complexity • In several cases agreements and efforts at Global level are necessary

  5. ESFRI - Infrastructures for the Life Sciences • BBMRI - Biobanks • EATRIS - Translational research facilities • ECRIN - Clinical trial plateform • ELIXIR – Data repositories • Infrafrontier - Mouse archives and clinics • INSTRUCT - Structural biology facilities • EMBRC - Marine biology resources • ERINHA - High-security labs • EuroBioImaging – Imaging facilities • EU-Openscreen - Chemical libraries • + new ESFRI Roadmap update 2010

  6. Implementation «A combination of resources from national budgets, Community programmes, EIB instruments and structural funds should lead to the development of excellent research infrastructures throughout Europe» Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry and Research) Council of March 5-6, 2009

  7. National FundingNational roadmaps

  8. (2) Structural FundsOpportunities for Research Infrastructures • Regional policy: 347 B€ • About 86 B€ are for Research, Technological Development and Innovation • One of the categories of expenditure:“R&D infrastructure and centres of competence in a specific technology” • Under the Convergence objective: 7.5 B€ • Under the Regional Competitiveness and Employment objective: 2.3 B€ • Under the European Territorial Co-operation objective: 148 M€ • http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/atlas2007/index_en.htm

  9. (3) Framework Programme 7Preparatory phase funding (~190 M€) • Average of € 4.5 million of EU contribution per project (for the Life Sciences) • Development of the strategy and concept of the new research infrastructure, the financing, the governance, the legal structure, etc. • Support towards an agreement between Member States and stakeholders for construction/upgrade • Inclusive projects

  10. (3) Framework Programme 7Construction phase funding (~130 M€) • Only a very limited contribution of FP7 to the construction phase • 30 M€ under the current FP7 call FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-1 • Topic « INFRA-2011-2.3.2: Implementation of common solutions for a cluster of ESFRI infrastructures in the field of Life sciences »

  11. (3) Framework Programme 7Integrating Activities (~630 M€) • Objective • To bring together and integrate, on a European scale, key research infrastructures in a given class, in order to promote their coordinated use and development • Mandatory activities • Trans-national Access and/or Service Activities • Joint Research Activities • Networking Activities • Partnership • Normally all major existing research infrastructures in Europe in one field. At least 3 MS or AS • Funding • EC contribution up to 10 M€ (4 years)

  12. An example of Integrating Activity SLING: Serving Life-science Information for the Next Generation • Networking (~2.9 M€):To foster a culture of cooperation between the research infrastructures and the related scientific communities • Training of users • Patent data collection and dissemination • Access (~2.3 M€):To provide trans-national access to researchers or research teams • Access to EBI and SIB data services • Joint Research (~3.6 M€):To improve the services provided by the infrastructures (in quality and/or quantity) • Such as enhancing protein annotation standards, next generation sequence data storage and interpretation, exploiting electronic literature, etc. EC contribution: ~8.8 M€ (36 months)

  13. (3) Framework Programme 7e-Infrastructures (~370 M€) • Objective • To optimise the use and development of existing ICT-based e-infrastructures, and to facilitate their accessibility from all over the EU • Activities • High capacity/performance communication (GÉANT) • Grid empowered infrastructures (incl. EGI) • Supercomputing facilities • Simulation software and services • Advanced visualisation facilities • Scientific Digital Repositories • Virtual Research Communities

  14. (3) Framework Programme 7Risk-Sharing Finance Facility (~200 M€) • An innovative financing instrument, developed jointly by the EIB and the Commission • Objective • Foster increased investment in research by improving access to, thus helping overcome market deficiency • Generate a leveraging effect so that the volume of extra lending is expected to be a multiple 4 to 6 of the Community and EIB funds allocated to the instrument • A solution developed specifically for ESFRI projects: ESFRI RSFF Capital Facility, ERCF

  15. FP7 contribution to Life Sciences RIs (>180 M€ of EU contribution) Genomics and proteomics research facilities INSTRUCT, Bio-NMR, East-NMR, Pcube, ESGI, Prime-XS, eNMR, WeNMR Imaging facilities Euro-BioImaging, neuGRID Biological Resource Centres BBMRI, EMBRC, EU-Openscreen, INFRAFRONTIER Assemble, EMMAservices, EMBaRC, EUPRIMnet-II, EVA, Infravec Data resources ELIXIR,SLING, IMPACT Medical research facilities EATRIS, ECRIN, ERINHA Transvac, ULICE Food and agriculture research facilities NADIR , AQUAEXCEL Health and Ageing, Food safety, Environmentally friendly production, Climate change

  16. (4) The ERIC legal framework • A Legal Framework, at Community level, for the construction and operation of new European Research Infrastructures (ERIC) • A legal personality recognised in all Member States • To facilitate the joint establishment and operation throughout Europe • Council Regulation (EC) No 723/2009 of 25 June 2009, published in the Official Journal of the European Union L 206/1 EN on 8.8.2009 • First application received on October 7th: SHARE • Others: BBMRI, ECRIN, Infrafrontier, CESSDA, ESSurvey, DARIAH, LifeWatch, EURO-ARGO

  17. (4) The ERIC legal frameworkECRIN-ERIC CRCs and CTUs National hub European correspondent ECRIN Core team

  18. (4) The ERIC legal frameworkBBMRI-ERIC Common service hub National node National / regional coordination Central Executive Management Office Biobanks Biomolecular repos. Technology centers

  19. EU perspectives • Europe 2020: A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth (COM(2010) 2020) • Seven flagship initiatives • « Innovation Union » • « A digital agenda for Europe » • « Youth on the move » • « Resource efficient Europe » • « An industrial policy for the globalisation era » • « An agenda for new skills and jobs » • « European platform against poverty »

  20. EU 2020 Flagship Initiative Innovation Union (4) « … a European Research Area framework and supporting measures to remove obstacles to mobility and cross-border co-operation… » (5) « By 2015 (…) have completed or launched the construction of 60% of the priority European research infrastructures currently identified by ESFRI… » (32) « The European Union should step up its cooperation on the roll-out of the global research infrastructures… »

  21. Towards FP8based on the lessons learnt from previous programmes • Successful infrastructure action with: • more than 550 RIs supported under FP7 • covering all scientific domains (60 Integrating Activities) • providing access to researchers from all European • countries with particular benefit to smaller ones • Problems with current limited access opportunities • Challenge for FP8 to increase the level of support for existing RIs and to optimise their impact • Not enough support to the ESFRI process • Not enough support to competitiveness of industry (support to instrumentation likely to be developed)

  22. For further information • Europe 2020 • http://ec.europa.eu/eu2020 • Innovation Union • http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union • FP7 and Capacities Specific Programme • http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ • European Commission Research Infrastructures and ESFRI • http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures • European Investment Bank • http://www.eib.org/products/loans/special/rsff

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