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Research Infrastructures European Added Value, Strategy & policy

Research Infrastructures European Added Value, Strategy & policy. Christian Kurrer, European Commission Bonn, 15.1.2007. The context…. Definition of Research Infrastructures. Facilities, resources, and related services used by the scientific community for Conducting leading-edge research

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Research Infrastructures European Added Value, Strategy & policy

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  1. Research InfrastructuresEuropean Added Value, Strategy & policy Christian Kurrer, European Commission Bonn, 15.1.2007

  2. The context…

  3. Definition of Research Infrastructures • Facilities, resources, and related services usedby the scientific community for • Conducting leading-edge research • Knowledge transmission, knowledge exchangesand knowledge preservation • Includes • Major scientific equipment • Scientific collections, archives and structured information • ICT-based infrastructures • Entities of a unique nature, used for research

  4. Research Infrastructures of pan-European relevance provide unique opportunities for: world-level research world-level training Technology & knowledge transfer ensuring knowledge preservation … in brief for European Capacity Building Research Infrastructures and capacity building 

  5. Europe has a long-standing tradition of excellence in research and its teams continue to lead progress in many fields However our centres of excellence often fail to reach critical mass There is a need to bring resources together and to build a European Research Area equivalent to the "common market"  Excellence and Research Infrastructures 

  6. Community activities under FP6 (2002-2006) Forexisting research infrastructures • Integrating Activities:to structure better, on a European scale, the way such facilities operate and promote their coherent use and development • e-infrastructures: to foster development of high-capacity + performance communication networks and grid infrastructures For new research infrastructures • Design studies • Construction (incl. major upgrades)

  7. Facts and Figures: Total budget:732 .2 M€ of which 222 for GRID + GEANT Number of projects142 Number of RIs supported248 Potential number of users >20000 Community activities under FP6 (2002-2006)

  8. Importance of I3s: • to reduce European fragmentation and dispersion of existing facilities • To help developing an internal research market for access to installations and for research services IA-SFS (Analytical Facilities) Example… Developing a pan-European Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser infrastructure • TA (~19 M€): • 15 installations, with 4000 users from a very broad spectrum of disciplines • NA (~2 M€): • Specialized workshops, conferences and schools • (support areas of transnational cooperation) • Exchange of scientists • JRA (~6 M€): • European platform for Protein Crystallography • Development of: • Instrumentation for Femtosecond Pulses • Diffractive x-ray optics • Superconducting Undulator • Photoinjector for X-ray Free Electron Lasers EC contribution: 27 M€ • Offering a common access platform

  9. EUPRIM-Net (Biomedical Sciences) Example… Developing a pan-European research infrastructure of primate centres EC contribution: ~4.7 M€ • TA (~1.3 M€): • Gene, tissue, cell, gamete and serum banks • Experimental animals • NA (~1.7 M€): • Standards (SOPs for quarantine and experiments) • Training on handling (blood sampling, injections…) • Courses and textbook (primate behaviour, husbandry, nutrition…) • JRA (~1.7 M€): • Molecular typing methods • Pathogen detection assays • Telemetry prototyping • Refinement, Replacement

  10. Main characteristics of an average Integrating Activity under FP6 • Average number of contractors: 19 of which 7 are offering access • Typical duration of 4 years • Average EC contribution: ~10 M€ • Management: ~ 6% • Networking Activities: ~ 15% • Trans-national Access: ~ 36% • Joint Research Activities: ~ 43% • List of funded projects (FP6)http://cordis.europa.eu/infrastructures/projects Within «one» single contract

  11. ESFRI E urope an S trate gy F orum o n Research Infrastructures Towards a coherent policy for Research Infrastructures • A European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures • Launched in April 02 • Brings together representatives of the 25 Member States,7 Associated States, and one representative of the European Commission (EC)

  12. To foster an “open method of coordination” between different countries To discuss the long term vision at European level and to support the development of a European RI policy To bring initiatives and projects to a point where decisions by ministers are possible A stimulation and incubator role ESFRI E urope an S trate gy F orum o n Research Infrastructures Role of ESFRI

  13. Mandate from the Council of Ministers,November 2004 The Roadmap is the result of two years of intensive work (published October 2006) About 1000 high-level experts were involved, from every MS and AS, from most fields and user communities, giving the end product credibility and quality. It is the beginning of an ongoing process ESFRI E urope an S trate gy F orum o n Research Infrastructures The Roadmap

  14. ESFRI E urope an S trate gy F orum o n Research Infrastructures Proposed new facilities for Biomedical and Life Sciences Roadmap 2006 6 Projects STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY CLINICAL TRIALS BIOBANKS EBI upgrade EATRIS INFRAFRONTIER

  15. Towards FP7…

  16. FP7 2007 - 2013 Budget (M€) - Source: Council decision in December 2006

  17. “Capacities”

  18. Objectives of the CommunityResearch Infrastructures action • 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 scientific community • Supporting programme implementationand policy development(e.g. international cooperation) 30% increase according to FP6

  19. Support to existing Research Infrastructures • Integrating Activities to promote the coherent use and development of research infrastructures in a given field, implemented through: • A bottom-up approach for proposals open to all fields of science • Targeted approach with topics defined in cooperation with the FP7 thematic areas • ICT basede-infrastructuresin support of scientific research 580 M€ 2007-2013 420 M€ 2007-2013

  20. EGEE (grids) Example… • ~ 500 sites in 40 countries • > 60 Virtual Organisations • ~ 24 000 CPUs • > 5 PB storage • > 10 000 concurrent jobs/day • Scientific communities Life Sciences High Energy Physics Biomedics Astrophysics Earth Sciences Computational Chemistry Finance Fusion GeophysicsMultimedia…

  21. Call for proposalsN°1 – launched early 2007 • Existing e-infrastructures (42 M€) • Scientific Digital Repositories, deployment of e-Infrastructures for new Scientific Communities, • Support measure for some FP6 I3 (finishing before March 2008) • Closure: 2 May 2007 • Single stage procedure for evaluation remote + panel evaluation • First contracts will come into force before the end of 2007

  22. Next calls for proposals N°2 (e-infrastructures) + N° 3 • Indicative budget of 84 + 275 M€ • 25 to 30 RTD projects to be selected • Call 2: e-science GRID, GÉANT and Scientific Data Infrastructures • Call 3: for RTD; both bottom up and targeted approach • Closure: Autumn 2007 (call 2) + March 2008 (call 3) • More information to be provided mid-2007

  23. Support to new Research Infrastructures • Design studies: to support the conceptual design for new facilities or major upgrades, of clear European dimension and interest • through bottom-up calls • Support to the Construction of new infrastructures and major upgrades to existing ones • Preparatory phase • Construction phase 70 M€ 2007-2013 530 M€ 2007-2013

  24. Support Actions … through a mixed bottom-up / top down approach, for: • the development of anRI European policyand the development ofinternational cooperation • Supportingprogramme implementation(NCPs) and the coordination of research infrastructures inemerging areas ERANETS 65 M€ 2007-2013

  25. FP7 will support the designof new research infrastructures (or major upgrades) • Design studies aiming at the conceptual design, not at a detailed design • Case of e-Infrastructures: to foster new organisational models in domains of grids & data • EC support likely to be smaller than under FP6, i.e. less than 5 M€ • bottom-up call… • Useful to feed the ESFRI roadmap process

  26. For the constructionof new research infrastructures (or major upgrades) … and major upgrades to existing ones • Support to the preparatory phasemainly based on the ESFRI worktwo calls foreseen (2007 and 2009) • (in addition) support to RSFF • (limited) available resources tosupport the construction 200-230 M€ 2007-2013 200 M€ 2007-2013 100-130 M€ 2007-2013

  27. First call for proposals closing in spring 2007 • For design studies, preparatory phase, and support actions • design studies: 35 M€ • Support actions: 28 M€(budget 2007-2008) • Indicative budget for preparatory phase: • 34 projects (budget 2007-2008) • Closure: 2nd May 2007 • First contracts to come into force before end 2007 130 M€

  28. Support measures under the 1st call… • For: • ERA-NETs • Studies, conferences, coordination actions for policy development (e-infrastructures) • NCPs and other support actions, as appropriate • Indicative budget of 28 M€ • 15 to 20 projects to be selected • Closure: 2 May 2007 Call N°3 closing early 2008 - only 5 M€

  29. The Preparatory Phaseunder the 1st call … • Member States not necessarily need the EC support… • … nevertheless, FP7 could help, in facilitating decision-making (no automatic funding) • A first call will be restricted to the projects identified in the 2006ESFRI roadmap • One proposal per topic is expected • Targeted at resolving bottlenecks in decision-making and supporting long-term consistency of research-oriented public actions

  30. The Preparatory Phaseunder the 1st call … • Tasks focusing on: • Strategy development • Planning of Technical work (e.g. final prototypes) • Governance and logistical work • Financial arrangements • Legal issues • The first call will be restricted to the projects identified in the 2006ESFRI roadmap • Direct EC (average) contribution around 5 M€

  31. The preparatory Phase…Who are the participants ? • Consortia should involve all stakeholders necessary to make the project a reality •  e.g. ministries, governments, research councils, funding agencies from interested countries +as appropriate, research centres, universities, industries, international organisations… • Minimum 3 participants from 3 Member States or Associated States(recommendation: at least 3 agencies…)

  32. Who are the participants ?How to manage ? • Open to participants from third countries • Possibility for new participants to join at later stage • … but be careful with too large consortia… • Coordinator to act as a « team builder » • The EC will act as a “facilitator”

  33. What can be done ? • Legal work, e.g. • To establish the legal basis for the new pan- European Research Infrastructures • Governance and logistic work, e.g. • Plans in terms of decision making, management structure, advisory bodies, IPR, access rule, • Staff recruitment, researchers support….

  34. What can also be done ? • Strategic work, e.g. • Plans to integrate the new RI in the EU fabric of related facilities, identification of best possible site(s), systems, etc. • Planning of research services to be provided at international level, etc. • Technical work, e.g. • Draft engineering plans for construction, • Final prototypes, new processing protocols, software, etc.

  35. Preparatory Phase facilitating financial engineering for new research infrastructures Member States European Commission Stakeholdersincl. EIROs Inclusion in national Programmes Inclusion in Specific RTD Programme(s) Inclusion in DG REGIO / DG DEV strategic plans Projects EIB RSFF

  36. FP7 Research Infrastructures in brief Existing Infrastructures New Infrastructures Design studies Integrating activities ESFRIRoadmap Construction (preparatory phase; construction phase) e-infrastructures Policy Development and Programme Implementation

  37. Useful links • FP7 Proposal and Capacities Specific Programme http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities.htm • Research Infrastructures on CORDIS (FP6) http://cordis.europa.eu/infrastructures/ http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/rn/ • ESFRI (Eur. Strategy Forum for Research Infrastr.) http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/home.html • e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG) http://www.e-irg.org • International Scientific cooperation policy: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/iscp/

  38. Merci Grazie Danke Bedankt Gracias Many thanks for your attention Hvala Kiitos Tack Obrigado Ευχαριστω Köszönöm Teşekkür ederim ありがとう СПАСІБO धन्यवाद

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