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

Social Sciences

andHumanities

CESSDA

EROHS

ESS

DARIAH

SHARE

CLARIN

6 Projects

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

FirstFP7 Call: Social Science and

Humanities

CESSDA

ESS

DARIAH

SHARE

CLARIN

5 Projects

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