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DG RTD-B ERA: ResearchProgrammes and Capacity
ResearchInfrastructures Unit
Maria Theofilatou
Community actions for
Research Infrastructures
Community actions for
Research Infrastructures
Research Infrastructures
(incl. e-infrastructures) are:
�Facilit
ies,
reso
urc
es,
and rela
ted s
erv
ices
use
dby the s
cientific
com
munity for
�Conduct
ing leadin
g-e
dge rese
arc
h
�Knowle
dge tra
nsm
ission, knowle
dge e
xch
anges
and k
nowle
dge p
rese
rvation
�Today R
ese
arc
h Infrast
ruct
ure
s in
clude
�M
ajo
r sc
ientific
equip
ment
�Scientific
colle
ctio
ns,
arc
hives,
struct
ure
d info
rmation
�IC
T-b
ase
d infrast
ruct
ure
s
�Exce
llence
of re
searc
h s
erv
ices
genera
lly s
ubje
ct to
periodic e
valu
ation b
y inte
rnational sc
ientific
com
mitte
e
•Fro
m G
lobally
uniq
ue to regio
nally
distrib
ute
d;
•M
any s
takehold
ers
(from
min
istrie
s to
rese
arc
hers
)
•Underlyin
g a
nd g
rowin
g u
se o
f e-infrast
ruct
ure
s;
•Opportunitie
s but difficu
ltie
s of in
tera
ctio
n b
etw
een
basic
rese
arc
h a
nd indust
ry…
•Lack
of fu
ndin
g (public
and p
rivate
);
•Sin
gle
countrie
s do n
ot have the c
ritica
l m
ass
or
dim
ension; need to c
oopera
te…
Europe is faced with a wide
spectrum of research infrastructure issues
ResearchInfrastructures’
Pattern israpidlyevolvingin
Europe (resultsfromEC-ESF survey)
Share of RIs Built or Upgraded in the Last 5 Years
3,3
18,8
19,1
35,3
9,0
16,7
18,8
30,034,9 36,7
34,4
36,2
23,5
51,3
45,1
44,7
36,734,9
010
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Energ
y
Hum
anitie
s
Engin
eering
SocialSciences
Nuclear and P
article
Physics
, Ast
ronom
y, Ast
rophysics
Environmental, Marine, Earth S
cience
s
Mate
rial Science
s
Computer and data treatment
Biomedical and Life Sciences
% RIs
built
in the last
5 y
ears
built more than 5 years ago
but upgra
ded in last
5 y
ears
An Ambitious ERA Vision: Developing
World-classResearchInfrastructures
(Report oftheERA Expert Group
2008)
Green Paperon ERA in 2007
Fiveinitiatives in 2008
a)Rese
arc
hers
b)Jo
int Pro
gra
mm
ing
c)Researchinfrastructures
d)In
tern
ational S&T C
oopera
tion
e)Knowle
dge
transf
erand IP
managem
ent
RI policy at EU level has
no other choice than continuing
reinforcing coordination
•At EU level,
•At national and regio
nal,
•At “v
ariable
geom
etry”,
•At glo
bal le
vel…
This e
xpla
ins
the im
portant
role
of ESFRI and o
thers
…
ESFRI
Euro
pean Strategy
Foru
mon R
esearc
h Infrastructu
res
Role of ESFRI
(and of its ad-hoc Working Groups)
•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
First roadmap
in 2
006
Update
in
Dec
2008
A stimulation
and incubatorrole
The European Roadmap
•M
andate
fro
m the C
ouncil of M
iniste
rs,
Novem
ber 2004
•Addre
ssin
g s
even (7) field
s of Rese
arc
h a
nd
majo
r ch
alle
nges
•Fro
m a
bout origin
al 200 p
roposa
ls, th
irty
five
(35) firs
t pro
ject
s were
identified in 2
006
thro
ugh s
evera
l re
vie
w s
tages
•The u
pdate
d roadm
ap w
ill b
e p
ublis
hed b
y
end o
f 2008 s
ince
som
e fie
lds
should
be
stim
ula
ted for fu
rther in
tegra
tion
•Four (4
) work
ing-g
roups
are
pre
paring this
firs
t update
, evalu
ating p
roposa
ls s
ubm
itte
d
thro
ugh the E
SFRI dele
gate
s
Budget for Research
Infrastructures under FP7
FP7 budget (50 521 M€, current prices)
Capacities
4 097 M€
JRC
1 751 M€
Ideas
7 510 M€
People
4 750 M€
Cooperation
32 413 M€
Research
Infrastructures
1 715 M€
FP7: Objectives of the Community
Research Infrastructures actions
�Optim
isin
g the u
se a
nd b
alanced d
evelopm
ent
of th
e b
est existing research
infrastructures
in E
uro
pe
�Helpin
g to cre
ate
in a
ll fields o
f S &
T new
research infrastructures
of pan-E
uro
pean
inte
rest needed b
y the E
uro
pean scientific
com
munity
�Supportin
g p
rogra
mm
e im
plem
enta
tion a
nd
policy development(e
.g. in
tern
ational
coopera
tion)
FP7 Research
Infrastructures actions
ExistingInfrastructures
Design studies
New Infrastructures
Construction
(preparatoryphase;
construction phase)
Integratingactivities
e-infrastructures
ESFRI
Roadmap
Policy Development/ Programme Implementation
30%
increa
se
compar
ing
to FP6
ExistingInfrastructures
Design studies
NewInfrastructures
Construction
(preparatoryphase;
construction phase)
FP7 Research
Infrastructures actions
Integratingactivities
e-infrastructures
Policy Developmentand Programme Implementation
Indicative budget
1000 M€
Indicative budget
600 M€
Indicative budget
65 M€
ESFRI
Roadmap
Planning of calls and indicative budget
xx
Call 5
2009
64
14
50
Call 2
2007
228
8
147
31
42
Call 1
2007
RSFF (200 M
€) + 130 M
€
Construction –
Support to the
Implementation Phase
xxx
Call 7
2012
xxxx
Call 6
2010
4
Policy
Development
and Programme
Implementation
113
282
Total per call (M
€)
Construction –
Support to the
Preparatory
Phase
Design studies
113
e-Infrastructures
278
Integrating activities
Call 4
2008
Call 3
2008
Total operational
budget 1665 M
€
First Call on Preparatory phase
for the Construction of New (or major
Upgrade) of Pan European Research
Infrastructures
•To p
rovid
e a
fra
mework
facilitating decision-
making
betw
een p
artners
fro
m d
iffe
rent co
untrie
s
•W
ork
targ
ete
d a
t resolving bottlenecks
and
addre
ssin
g m
ost
of th
e critical issues
(legal,
financial,..) th
at need to b
e reso
lved to a
llow the
pro
ject
movin
gfo
rward
•Technical work
also p
oss
ible
but ca
nnot be the c
ore
of th
e p
repara
tory
phase
The Preparatory phase is a pathfinder for construction
CESSDA
www.nsd.uib.no/cessda
Council of European Social Science Data Archives
�Distributed infrastructure providing and facilitating access of
researchers to high quality data and supporting their use
�Currently extends across 21 countries in Europe
�Holds some 15,000 data collections
�Provides access to over 20,000 researchers
�Agreementsin place withotherorganisations worldwide
Social Sciences and Humanities
CLARIN
Social Sciences and Humanities
Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
•Distributed infrastructure making available language resources
and technology to researchers and scholars of all disciplines, in
particular the humanities and social sciences
•Harm
onises structural and term
inological differences
•Based on a Grid-type infrastructure and using Semantic W
eb
technology
www.mpi.nl/clarin
DARIAH
Social Sciences and Humanities
Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
•Distributed infrastructure, based upon an existing network of Data
Centres and Services in Germ
any, France, the Netherlands and the
United Kingdom
•Open infrastructure, able to embrace new fields
•Brings essential cultural heritage online(linked to the European
Cultural Heritage Online)
www.dariah.eu
TheEuropean
Social Survey
Social Sciences and Humanities
www.europeansocialsurvey.org
TheEuropean Social Survey
•Major up-grade of a Pan-European database to monitor long term
changes in social values throughout Europe
•Produces data relevant to academic debate, policy analysis and
better governance
•Currently covers 27 European countries.
SHARE
Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
•Data infrastructure of fact- ---based economic and social science
analyses of the on-going changes in Europe due to population
ageing
•The original 8-country survey will be expanded to all 25 Member
States of the EU.
www.share-project.org
Social Sciences and Humanities
FP7 Preparatory Phase
facilitating financial engineering
for new research infrastructures
Inclusion in
SpecificRTD
Programme(s)
Inclusion in
DG REGIO / DG DEV
strategicplansStakeholders
incl. EIROs
Member
States
European
Commission
Inclusion in
national
Programmes
Projects
EIB
RSFF
The EC Proposal for a
Community legal framework for a
European Research Infrastructure (ERI)
�In July 2008, the Commission presented its
Proposal for a Council Regulation
�The creation of a Community Legal Framework
based on Article 171 EC Treaty for the
construction and operation of new European
Research Infrastructures (ERI) is in progress
�Foreseen adoption by the Council on December
2008
�It would be effective from mid-2009
FP7 continues supporting
existing Research Infrastructures
�Integrating Activities
to p
rom
ote
the
cohere
nt use a
nd d
evelopm
ent of re
searc
h
infrastructu
res in a
given field, implemented
through:
�Bottom-up a
ppro
ach
�Targeted topics
�ICT basede-infrastructures
in support o
f scientific researc
h
Integrating Activity in FP7
�Continuation of the successful FP6 instrument “I3”
�Collaboration of existingresearchinfrastructuresin a
given field of science
�Normally all major RI’s in Europe in one field
�Atleast 3 MS or AS
�Funding Scheme: combination of collaborative project
+ coordination and support actions.
�Three types of activities are obligatory in one project
�Networking Activities
�Trans-national Access and/or Service Activities
�Joint Research Activities
Integrating Activities
FP7 call 3
Hadron therapy centres
ULICE
Structural biology -NMR
EAST-NMR
Structural biology
PCUBE
Vaccine development
TRANSVAC
Infectious disease vectors
INFRAVEC
Animal diseases
NADIR
Virus archives
EVA
Microbial resources
EMbaRC
Mouse repositories
EMMAservice
Bio-informatics resources
SLING
Marine genomics
ASSEMBLE
Electricity networks
DERRI
Solar energy
SFERA
Marine Science, Geophysics
EUROFLEETS
Marine mesosphere
MESOAQUA
Marine, biodiversity
UP-GRADE BS-
SCENE
Atmosphere and
geosciences
EUFAR
Atmosphere chemistry
EUROCHAMP-2
Climate modeling
IS-ENES
Climate change, biodiversity
INCREASE
Biodiversity, taxonomy,
collections
SYNTHESYS
Cultural Heritage
CHARISMA
Radio Astronomy
RadioNet-FP7
Optical Astronomy
OPTICON
Planetology
EuroPlaNeTRI
Neutron sources
NMI3
Hadron physics
HadronPhysics2
Lasers
LASERLAB-EUROPE
Accelerators
EuCARD
Synchrotrons
ELISA
Supercomputers
HPC-EUROPA
High magnetic fields
EuroMagNETII
Ion beam technology
SPIRIT
Cryo-engineering, nano-
physics
MICROKELVIN
Nano-materials
EUMINAfab
Wind tunnels, aeronautics
ESWIRP
Earthquake engineering
SERIES
Population Ageing
SHARE_LEAP
Policy development and
Programme implementation
FP7 Call 3
�ERA-NETsfor research infrastructures
�Studies, conferences and coordination actions for
policy development, including international
cooperation
�Network of National Contact Points(NCP)
�OtherSupport actions, as appropriate
…in summary, a consistent
action for Research Infrastructures
•Better co
nsist
ency
within
FP7 (ta
rgete
d c
alls
)
•Tack
ling b
etter fragm
enta
tion
(Inte
gra
ting A
ctivitie
s)
•Cata
lysing e
ffect
toward
s th
eco
nst
ruct
ion
or m
ajo
r upgra
de o
f Rese
arc
h Infrast
ruct
ure
s
•A v
isio
nfo
r th
e n
ext 10-2
0 y
ears
fo
stering c
apacity
build
ing
and e
xce
llence
(in lin
e w
ith E
SFRI ro
adm
ap)
NextWP 2010
to beprepared
soon
Importance of
Community Actions
•The c
halle
nges
are
hig
h: existing R
I in
vest
ments
repre
sent m
ore
than 1
00 B
€at EU
level, w
here
as
the E
C reso
urc
es
are
not enough
(1,7
B€
under FP7),
•Could
this b
e reco
nsidere
d a
t th
e F
P7 m
id-term
re
vie
w?
There
is
need for th
e M
S to raise their
long-term
support to b
enefit from
the full
pote
ntial of ERIs
�FP7 and Capacities Specific Programme
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/hom
e_en.html
�Research Infrastructures on CORDIS (FP6)
http://cordis.europa.eu/infrastructures/
�Research Infrastructures in Europa
http://www.ec.europa.eu/research/infrastr
uctures