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EU Actions for Research Infrastructures Paris, 24 May 2011 JERICO Kick-off meeting Agnès Robin

EU Actions for Research Infrastructures Paris, 24 May 2011 JERICO Kick-off meeting Agnès Robin European Commission, DG Research & Innovation www.ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures. Contents: EU perspectives (Europe 2020, Innovation Union) ESFRI, ERIC FP7, Integrating Activities.

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EU Actions for Research Infrastructures Paris, 24 May 2011 JERICO Kick-off meeting Agnès Robin

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  1. EU Actions for Research Infrastructures Paris, 24 May 2011 JERICO Kick-off meeting Agnès Robin European Commission, DG Research & Innovation www.ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures

  2. Contents: • EU perspectives (Europe 2020, Innovation Union) • ESFRI, ERIC • FP7, Integrating Activities

  3. 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 »

  4. Innovation Union • Strategic approach to innovation • Focused on the Grand Challenges • Three main characteristics: - A world class science base - Coherent Europe wide use of public sector intervention to stimulate private sector - Concerted effort to remove bottlenecks which stop ideas reaching the market • Will shape next generation of programmes for R&I

  5. Innovation Union commitments and Research Infrastructures (4) « … a European Research Area framework… to ensure…opening of Member State operated research infrastructures to the full European user community;… » (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… »

  6. Towards a coherent policy for Research Infrastructures: ESFRI • A European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (launched in April 2002) • Brings together representatives of the 27 Member States, Associated States, and one representative of the European Commission (EC) • To discuss the long term vision at European level and to support the development of a European RI policy • A 2010 Roadmap Report with 48 projects • Worth ~18 B€ investments over the next ~10 years(44 projects from the 2008 roadmap)

  7. ESFRI - ENV Sciences Roadmap 2006 • (AURORA BOREALIS – Polar research icebreaker) • COPAL – Long range aircraft for tropospheric research • EMSO – Multidisciplinary seafloor observatory • EURO-ARGO – Ocean observing buoy system • IAGOS – Climate change obs. from commercial aircraft • ICOS – Integrated carbon observation system • LIFEWATCH – For research on protection, management and sustainable use of biodiversity + Update 2008 • EISCAT_3D – Upgrade of EISCAT for ionospheric and space weather research • EPOS – For study of tectonics and Earth surface dynamics • SIOS – Upgrade of Svalbard integrated Arctic Earth observation system + Update 2010 (Life Sciences, Energy) • ANAEE - Analysis and experimentation on ecosystems

  8. The ESFRI roadmap Observations • The ESFRI roadmap includes both well matured projects (many of them single-sited ones) and new projects that took form during the elaboration of the ESFRI roadmap (often the distributed ones) • single-sited RIs tends to be much more advanced in their development (6 already in construction) • Some ESFRI projects are new “green field” projects. Others are building on existing centres and sometimes pre-existing networks •  projects face different challenges in how far they have to raise new money for their realisation

  9. The ESFRI roadmap Observed impacts • The ESFRI Roadmap … • Attracted Member State’s attention to the importance of RIs and to the projects of the ESFRI roadmap • Stimulated the development of national roadmaps and the setting-up of priorities in relation to the ESFRI roadmap • Mobilised many countries to host an ESFRI project or participate in others

  10. A new European legal framework for ERIs: “ERIC” • Necessity of anew Legal Framework, at Community level, for the construction and operation of European Research Infrastructures • A legal personality recognised in all Member States • To facilitate the joint establishment and operation throughout Europe • EU Commission decision end of July 2008, and adoption by the EU Council end of June 2009 • Council Regulation(EC) No 723/2009 of 25 June 2009, published in theOfficial Journal of the European UnionL 206/1 EN on 8.8.2009

  11. Cooperation JRC 32 413 M€ 1 751 M€ Capacities 4 097 M€ People 4 750 M€ Ideas 7 510 M€ Budget for Research Infrastructures under FP7 Research Infrastructures 1 715 M€ (~245 M€/year) FP7 budget (50 521 M€, current prices)

  12. Objectives of the FP7Research Infrastructures actions • Optimising the use and development of the best existing research infrastructures in Europe • Helping to create in all fields of S & T new research infrastructures of pan-European interest needed by the European scientific community • Supporting programme implementation and policy development (e.g. international cooperation)

  13. FP7 Research Infrastructures actions Existing Infrastructures NewInfrastructures Design studies Integrating activities Indicative budget 600 M€ Indicative budget 1000 M€ Construction (preparatory phase; construction phase) e-infrastructures Policy Development and Programme Implementation Indicative budget 80 M€

  14. IntegratingActivitiesOverview • 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 • 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) • Mandatory activities • Networking Activities • Trans-national Access and/or Service Activities • Joint Research Activities

  15. Integrating activities Networking activities • To foster a culture of cooperation between the research infrastructures and the related scientific communities • Forms of activities: • Towards a common long-term strategy : foresight… • Towards good practice: exchange of personnel and visits, standards and quality… • Towards the users: training, feedback, coordination… • Towards virtual research communities: web sites, common software, databases, data management… • Towards long-term sustainability: activities with funders, business plan … • Towards innovation • Technicalworkshops, forum, studies…

  16. Integrating activities Transnational access and/or service activities • Provide transnational access to researchers or research teams for one or more infrastructures among those operated by the participants • "Hands-on" access • Remote access: provision of reference material, sample analysis… • Provide research infrastructures related services to the scientific community • Access to scientific services freely available through communication networks, e.g. databases available on the web

  17. Integrating activities Joint research activities • Explore new fundamental technologies or techniques underpinning the efficient and joint use of the participating research infrastructures To improve the services provided by the infrastructures (in quality and/or quantity) • Forms of activities: • Instrumentation / prototype development • Development of methods, protocols, standards… • Development of software, middleware, algorithms… • Database creation, upgrade, curation… • Development and curation of samples

  18. Integrating ActivitiesProjects funded and started 2009 (bottom up) • EUFAR– Research aircrafts • EUROCHAMP-2– Atmospheric simulation chambers • EUROFLEETS– Research vessels • INCREASE - Network on climate change and shrubland ecosystems • IS-ENES- Earth system modelling • MESOAQUA - Mesocosm facilities - aquatic ecosystems • SYNTHESIS– Natural history collections • UP-GRADE BS-SCENE- Black Sea data centers • (ASSEMBLE- Marine biological laboratories)

  19. Integrating ActivitiesProjects just starting or under negotiation • ACTRIS – Aerosols, clouds, and trace gases RI network • EXPEER – Distributed RI for Experimentation in Ecosystem Research • INTERACT– International Terrestrial Arctic collaborative network • JERICO – Coastal observatories • (NERA – RI for earthquake risk assessment and mitigation) • SeaDataNet II – Marine data centres

  20. FP7 contribution to ENV Sciences RIs (~125 M€ of EU contribution) Biodiversity SYNTHESIS, EXPEER, INTERACT, INCREASE, MESOAQUA, ANAEE, LIFEWATCH, EMSO, SIOS-PP Atmospheric Sciences ACTRIS, EUFAR, EUROCHAMP2, EISCAT_3D_2, ICOS, COPAL, IAGOS-ERI, ICARE-2010 Earth Sciences NERA, EMSO, EPOS, EISCAT_3D_2 Polar research INTERACT, ERICON-AB, SIOS-PP Marine Sciences UP-GRADE BS-SCENE,EUROFLEETS, JERICO, MESOAQUA, EMSO, EURO-ARGO, ERICON-AB Climate Change IS-ENES, INCREASE, EXPEER, ICOS,DARECLIMED, SIOS-PP Climate change and resource efficiency (Major societal challenges – Innovation Union 2020)

  21. RIs for Marine sciences FP6+7 Aurora Borealis, 4.5 m€ EMSO, 3.9 m€ FP7 PP About 60M€ of EC funding (2005-2012) Euro Argo, 3.0 m€ Jerico, 6.5 m€; etc. Eurofleets, 7.2 m€ FP7 I3 Mesoaqua, 3.5 m€ BlackSeaScene, 3.4 m€ FP6 I3 SeaDataNet 8.7 m€ FP6 CA BlackSeaSCENE, 2 m€ CeMACE, DesignACT 1,5 m€ FP6 CNI 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

  22. Towards CSFbased 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 currently) • providing access to researchers from all European countries with particular benefit to smaller ones • Problems with current limited access opportunities • Challenge for CSF 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 (ideas: support to instrumentation… )

  23. For further information • Europe 2020 • ec.europa.eu/eu2020 • Innovation Union • ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union • FP7 • cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ • EC Research Infrastructures and ESFRI • ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures • EC Regional Policy • ec.europa.eu/regional_policy • European Investment Bank • www.eib.org/products/loans/special/rsff

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