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Oct 2009 – Hervé PERO, European Commission

VLVvT 09 Athens meeting The EU and Global issues. Oct 2009 – Hervé PERO, European Commission. Basics of the development of the European Research Area. The ERA concept combines: a European "internal market" for research, where researchers, technology and knowledge freely circulate;

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Oct 2009 – Hervé PERO, European Commission

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  1. VLVvT 09 Athens meeting The EU and Global issues Oct 2009 – Hervé PERO, European Commission

  2. Basics of the development of the European Research Area • The ERA concept combines: • a European "internal market" for research, whereresearchers, technology and knowledge freely circulate; • an effective European-level coordination of national and regional research activities, programmes and policies; • initiatives implemented and funded jointly.

  3. World-class research infrastructuresKey element of the Lund declaration adopted on 8 July 09 Essential for Europe’s researchers to stay at the forefront of research development Key component of Europe’s competitiveness in “frontier” research Key Challenges: Overcoming fragmentation in Europe Coping with increasing costs / complexity Improving efficiency of (and access to) research infrastructures services, incl. e-infrastructures

  4. Political willingness to develop RIs of pan-European (and international) interest… Critical mass (scale & scope) to raise attractiveness of ERA… Europe faces two main challenges… … but there is NO « one size fits all » solution

  5. RIs of pan-European interest require professional management throughout their life-cycle (from preparation to decommissioning). This entails a wide range of activities as RIs not only provide access to highly sophisticated equipment; they also train people, participate in technology development, and may be responsible for establishing standard operation procedures Extract of the 2007 ERA expert group

  6. This is even more true if we want an ‘eco-system’ of Research Infrastructures within ERA • Large (single-sited) facilities • Distributed European Facilities • Network of national facilities • Based on • a consistent roadmap from the European stakeholders • Links with universities & schools • Network of industrial suppliers / users

  7. Support given by FP7 Research Infrastructures action Existing infrastructures New infrastructures Design studies  Integrating activities ESFRIRoadmap Construction ( Preparatory phase; implementation phase) e-Infrastructures Policy development / Programme implementation ( call FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1)

  8. ELI Physical Sciencesand Engineering 8 projects CTA E-ELT SPIRAL2 PRINS Links with other ESFRI projects, such as EMSO… SKA FAIR KM3NeT

  9. EC support to KM3NeT • Design Study: EC contribution €5 million • 45 months (end Oct. 2009), total costs ~ M€ 17.6) • Design for a cubic-kilometre sized deep-sea neutrino telescope (evaluation of procedures for assembly and construction; models for operation and maintenance) • Preparatory phase: EC contribution €9 million • 48 months (end Feb. 2012), total costs ~ M€ 13) • Towards a pan European facility; legal, governance and financial engineering; international networking; integration with regional and global marine and environmental systems (in particular EMSO)

  10. European Commission 1) The Preparatory Phase help mainly facilitating pooling of resources for new research infrastructures Member States Stakeholdersincl. EIROs Inclusion in national Programmes Inclusion in Specific RTD Programme(s) Inclusion in REGIO / DG DEV strategic plans Projects RSFF Construction + operational costs ! EIB Up to now 34 ESFRI projects are supported+ 10 to come…

  11. New Research Infrastructurescurrent Preparatory phases MoUs between Member States?

  12. 2) Integrating Activity also help the development of critical mass, distributed facilities all over Europe • Collaboration of existing research infrastructures • Three types of obligatory activities • Networking Activities • Trans-national Access and/or Service Activities • Joint Research Activities EC funds ~250 M€/y 2,5% of EU needsAbout 300 RIs supported under FP

  13. Integrating activitiesTargeted approach • The three next FP7 calls address defined topics, focusing on strategic priorities • With topics for the potential follow-up of projects and with topics for the opening to new communities • More topics than can be funded to ensure competition • Funding scheme: CP-CSA (combination of ‘collaborative project’ & ‘coordination and support actions’) See (within call 2010, closing 3 Dec 2009) topic 34: RIs for dark matter search, neutrinos, gravitational waves)

  14. e-Infrastructuresinterconnecting communities Call closing on November 24, 2009

  15. Distribution of projects per scientific domain and activity (FP7, up to 2009, 687 M€) 236 M€ 174 M€ 111 M€ 76 M€ 29 M€ 46 M€ 5 M€ 10 M€

  16. Global issues? Vision?

  17. Vision: the renaissance of Europe • A fully integrated, consistent, efficient eco-system of Research Infrastructures, serving researchers in all S&T fields • Based on European wide e-infrastructures • Research Infrastructures as knowledge industry for the knowledge society and source of attraction for world scientists

  18. Vision: the storm • Other regions (world) have become much more attractive than Europe for researchers • European research actions are loosing its scientific and technological relevance • In addition, knowledge generated for years by European researchers is being exploited through the www. by others

  19. Another way - more proactive - is to present key factors affecting the vision, e.g. • Capacity (or not) to develop a favorable environment for EU research (not just national) • Capacity (or not) to strengthen relations with education and with industry • Capacity (or not) to work together to face increasingly complex problems / costly solutions • Capacity (or not) to to face research internationalization

  20. Capacity (or not) to develop a favorable environment for EU research (not just national)

  21. Research Education Research infrastructures Knowledge «industry» Innovation Efficiency of Research Infrastructures at the centre of the knowledge triangle relate to a favourable environment Overall environment Impacts much broader (and may be more important for decision makers) than just scientific ones!

  22. Recent entry into force of ERIC (Aug 09) Based on art. 171 EC Treaty, that allows the Community to set up European entities necessary for efficient execution of Community RTD programmes The regulation provides an easy-to-use legal tool: … having legal personality recognized in all MS … having a spirit of a truly European venture … being flexible enough (one size doesn’t fit all) … with some privileges / exemptions New Research Infrastructuresa new Community legal framework

  23. Capacity (or not) to strengthen relations with education and with industry

  24. Total for FP7: 575 (estim.) Positive evolution as shown by the number of RIs supported for Transnational Access at EU level (per scientific domain) FP7 (2007-08)

  25. … and increased used of RIs for training of scientists and engineers as shown by the evolution of non-publication related access within a major EU synchrotron (ELETTRA) during the last 10 years EU enlargement

  26. … but a problem of overall funding as shown by the evolution of the budget related to transnational access related actions from FP2 to FP7

  27. Capacity (or not) to work together to face increasingly complex problems costly solutions

  28. Virtual Research Environment Example Archival The Body of Knowledge Access Creation Computation, curation Information Infrastructure the researcher doesn’t need to bother how the information infrastructure works… Acknowledgement: e-IRG 2007

  29. Acquisition and Ingest .................ca. 42% Archival Storage & Preservation ....ca. 23% Access ..........................................ca.35% Access Metadata Creation Bit-stream Preservation Content Preservation Creation or Purchase Acquisition Ingest … but needs to work within a consistent information infrastructure to avoid wasting money later on… Ability to integrate research infrastructures (distributed RIs) as well as RIs and e-infrastructures?

  30. Capacity (or not) to face research internationalization

  31. Pan European RIs to interact at all levels ! National/Regional initiatives (Antares, Nemo, Nestor…) in EU International cooperation (IceCube…) KM3NeT Global projects? Challenges: technological, scientific, political (ERA, nat. priorities) Europe (Aspera, EMSO PP, EuroSites CP…), Structural Funds…

  32. We need a more research and innovation intensive, integrated and attractive EuropeanResearchArea Excellent Research Attracts How should KM3Net help contributing to an efficient Research Infrastructure eco-system? 32

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