Survey and Roadmapping on National Level Research Infrastructures

1. Survey and Roadmapping on National Level Research Infrastructures Riitta Mustonen Vice President (Research) Photo Pirjo Mäenpää/TSV

2. Background for National RI Survey and Roadmap • Based on The Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland recommendation The Finnish Ministry of Education launched a survey carried out in Finland in spring 2008 on national-level research infrastructures and initiatives for new national infrastructures and major upgrades of existing infrastructures. • The resulting charting and plan concerning the national research infrastructures, the so-called Roadmap, will be updated at regular intervals. • The survey was in two parts, with the first part focusing on charting existing national research infrastructures and current commitments in international research infrastructures (inter-governmental agreements, memberships in international research). • The second part of the survey charts proposals for the major upgrades of national research infrastructures, new research infrastructures and participation in new international initiatives.

3. The definition of research infrastructure • Research infrastructures (RI) are resources of research methods, equipment, materials and services facilitating research and development in various stages of innovation, supporting organized research, and maintaining and developing research capacity. • The optimum structure of a research infrastructure naturally depends on the field of research and the user community, and their needs.

4. Process details STEP by STEP National seminar on RI´s and information February 2008 (& web site) Proposals submitted through an open Internet Survey Opinion of an independent Expert Group (4 experts, 2 in secretariat) National Steering Groupselected out the RI thatdoes not meet the criteria of a national level RI (16 experts & members, 2 in secretariat) 3 International Expert Panels (22 members, 3 in secretariat) National information & discussion meeting in 15.10.2008 in Helsinki Agreed report by the National Steering Group to Ministry of Education 12/08

6. Roadmap projects • System Architecture for Memory Institutions • Finnish Language Resource Consortium FIN-CLARIN • European Social Survey ESS • Council of European Social Sciences Data Archives CESSDA • Environmental Data System EnviData • LIFEWATCH and Fin LTSER • Finnish Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research network FinLTSER • Environmental and atmospheric Sciences: Integrated CarbonObservation System ICOS, SMEAR, Pallas-Sodankylä sites • European infrastructure for phenotyping and archiving of model mammalian genomes Infrafrontier • European Advanced Translational Research Infrastructure EATRIS

7. Roadmap projects • European Life Science Infrastructure for Biological Information ELIXIR • Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure BBMRI • National virusvector Laboratory AIV VectorCore • Jules Horowitz Materials Testing Reactor JHR • European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF upgrade • Micronova Centre for Micro- and nanotechnology • Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR • Uppgrade of cryohall (CRYOHALL) • CSC, Funet ja grid-infrastructure • Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe PRACE

8. Summary • 13 emerging Roadmap RI proposals • 13 Roadmap proposals connected to ESFRI projects • 7 Roadmap proposals needs soon funding • 24 proposals accepted as existing national level RI’s The Finnish Roadmap covers all scientific disciplines The list of existing national level RI’s covers all scientific disciplines

9. Steering Group recommendations Total 25 recommendations: • Future RI policy in Finland, • Funding and fundingmechanisms, • Update of the survey and the roadmap, • Structure for funding and RI policy http://www.tsv.fi/tik