Transcript SeaDataNet-March_2009

Research Infrastructures
under FP7 and opportunities
for marine sciences
Lorenza Saracco, DG RTD-B
ERA: Research Programmes and Capacity
Research Infrastructures Unit
ERA building blocks
Excellent research
institutions and
universities
Single labour market
for researchers
Opening to the world
through international
cooperation in S&T
Well-coordinated
research programmes
and priorities (joint
programming)
European
Research
Area
World-class research
infrastructures
Effective sharing of
knowledge
Importance of Research
Infrastructures for Europe
 At the core of the Research, Innovation, Education
triangle
 Extending the frontiers of knowledge
 Supporting industrial innovation
 Exchanging and transmitting knowledge
 Training the next generation of top researchers
 For their construction and operation: A European
market of 9 billion Euro per year, with an annual
growth of 5.5%
Objectives of the Community
Research Infrastructures actions
 Optimising the use and balanced 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 European scientific
community
 Supporting programme implementation and
policy development (e.g. international
cooperation)
Definition of Research
Infrastructures
 Facilities, resources, and related services used
by the scientific community for
Conducting leading-edge research
Knowledge transmission, knowledge exchanges
and knowledge preservation
 Includes
Major scientific equipment
Scientific collections, archives and structured information
ICT-based infrastructures
Entities of a unique nature, used for research
Research Infrastructures’
pattern is rapidly
evolving in Europe
Share of RIs Built or Upgraded between 2001 and 2006
34,9
Biomedical and Life Sciences
30,0
Computer and data treatment
44,7
16,7
Environmental, Marine, Earth Sciences
45,1
9,0
Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
51,3
35,3
Social Sciences
built before 2000
but upgraded since then
36,7
18,8
Material Sciences
built within these 5 years
34,9
Engineering
19,1
Humanities
18,8
Energy 3,3
0
23,5
36,2
34,4
36,7
10
20
30
40
% RIs
50
60
70
80
Europe is faced with a wide
spectrum of research infrastructure issues
• From Globally unique to regionally distributed;
• Many stakeholders (from ministries to researchers)
• Underlying and growing use of e-infrastructures;
• Opportunities but difficulties of interaction between
basic research and industry…
• Lack of funding (public and private);
• Single countries do not have the critical mass or
dimension; need to cooperate…
RI policy at EU level has
no other choice than continuing
reinforcing coordination
•
•
•
•
At
At
At
At
EU level,
national and regional,
“variable geometry”,
global level…
This explains the important
role of ESFRI and others…
ESFRI European Strategy Forum
on Research Infrastructures
Towards a coherent policy for
Research Infrastructures: ESFRI
 A European Strategy Forum on Research
Infrastructures (launched in April 2002)
 Brings together representatives of the 27 Member
States, Associated States, and one representative
of the European Commission (EC)
 To discuss the long term vision at European level
and to support the development of a European RI
policy
 A Roadmap Report with 44 projects
 Worth ~20 B€ investments over the next ~10 years
IAGOS-ERI
AURORA BOREALIS
EMSO
March 2009
LIFEWATCH
EURO-ARGO
European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures
Report 2006
Example: 7 pan-European projects
identified to serve environmental
Sciences in the 2006 ESFRI roadmap
EISCAT – 3D
EPOS
SIAEOS
EMBRC
March 2009
European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures
Report 2008
Few more projects identified in the
2008 roadmap update, for example…
FP7 Research
Infrastructures actions
Existing Infrastructures
New Infrastructures
Integrating activities
Design studies
e-infrastructures
Construction
(preparatory phase;
construction phase)
Policy Development / Programme Implementation
ESFRI
Roadmap
Preparatory phase projects
for the Construction of New (or major
Upgrade) of Pan European Research
Infrastructures
•
To provide a framework facilitating decisionmaking between partners from different countries
•
Work targeted at resolving bottlenecks and
addressing most of the critical issues (legal,
financial,..) that need to be resolved to allow the
project moving forward
•
Technical work also possible but cannot be the core
of the preparatory phase
Preparatory Phase
facilitating financial engineering
for new research infrastructures
Member
States
Inclusion in
national
Programmes
European
Commission
Inclusion in
Specific RTD
Programme(s)
Stakeholders
incl. EIROs
Inclusion in
other DGs
strategic plans
Projects
EIB
34 of the 35 ESFRI projects supported
Integrating Activity in FP7
 Continuation of the successful FP6 instrument “I3”
 3 to 10 M€ (15 M€ in exceptional cases)
 up to 4 years
 Collaboration of existing research infrastructures
 Normally all major RI’s in Europe in one field
 At least 3 MS or AS
 Three types of activities are obligatory in one project
 Networking Activities
 Trans-national Access and/or Service Activities
 Joint Research Activities
Trans-national Access
and/or Service activities
 Provide trans-national access to researchers or
research teams to one or more infrastructures
among those operated by the participants
"Hands on" access
Remote access: provision of reference material, sample
analysis…
Remote access to distributed infrastructures: “transnationality” will not apply
 Provide research infrastructures related services
to the scientific community
Access to scientific services freely available through
communication networks, e.g. databases available on the web
Trans-national Access
and/or Service activities (cont’d)
 Specific provisions for trans-national access
activities are defined in Annex III to the GA
Access costs = unit cost x quantity of access provided
(will not exceed 20% of costs of providing total access to the
installation over the duration of the project)
An estimated unit cost will be specified in Annex I
EC financial contribution will be adjusted in the final financial
statement (Form C) based on real UC
 Specific provisions for access to services freely
available on Internet are defined in SP 17
EC financial contribution for access costs will not exceed 20%
of operating costs incurred over the duration of the project
the services offered must be assessed periodically by an
external board of international experts in the field, appointed
by the project and approved by the Commission.
FP 7 future calls
0verall strategy
 Three calls for proposals for 2010-2013
 A targeted approach
 For each of the calls, a list of defined topics
 Each topic corresponding to one project, e.g.:
"Research Vessels", "Virus archives", "Historical
archives“…
 More topics will be published than can be
funded to ensure competition
Identification of topics
A draft list of topics, based on:
 Scientific landscapes established by ESFRI RWGs
 Published national roadmaps (DK, FR, IE, NL, NO, ES,
SE, UK; as well as third countries such as AU, USA)
 Other policy documents (CERN, SCAR, etc.)
 Currently funded I3/Integrating Activity projects
and Coordination Actions (FP6 and FP7)
 Input from last bottom-up calls
 A one-day workshop with 40 high-level experts
 Further input from other directorates / DGs /
Programme Committee
Outcome of the work
 79 topics in 6 fields…divided in three calls
 Environmental sciences and non nuclear energy
 Life sciences
 Mathematics, computer-related sciences, data
 Social sciences and humanities
 Physics, astronomy, nuclear / particle physics
 Analytical facilities and engineering
 Environmental sciences and energy
 16 topics environment, 7 topics energy:
29% of the total of the number of topics!
Distribution of the topics
between calls
Call A (WP 2010)
Published Jul. 2009
Call B (WP 2011)
Autumn 2010
Call C (WP 2012)
Jan. 2012
Budget: ~ 160 M€
Budget: ~ 100 M€
Budget: ~90 M€
35 topics
21 topics
23 topics
Expected number of
funded projects:
~ 18-20
Expected number of
funded projects:
~ 10
Expected number of
funded projects:
~ 12
WP 2010 (call A): environment
 Topics for new communities (I3) include:
 Long-term ecosystems research network of sites
and experimental platforms, for multidisciplinary
research and data collection
 RI for polar research: interdisciplinary observation
and monitoring stations including atmospheric,
terrestrial and marine studies
 RI for coastal research, including for integrated
coastal zone management and planning
 RI for water resource observation, water resource
management, hydrological observation
WP 2011 (call B): environment
 Topics with existing I3 projects in the RI program

Multidisciplinary ocean, marine & coastal data centres

RI for carbon cycle observation
 Topics for new communities :

Observatories and data centres for biodiversity research
WP 2012 (call C): environment
 Topics with existing I3 projects in the RI program

Research vessels

Integrated marine stations supporting research on
aquatic ecosystems based on mesocosm studies

RIs for earth systems modelling
RIs for Marine sciences
FP6-FP7 projects
Geo-Seas 4.9 m€
Assemble 8.7 m€
FP7 I3
Eurofleets 7.2 m€
Mesoaqua 3.5 m€
Upg BlackS.Scene 3.4 m€
Euro Argo 3 m€
FP 7 PP
Aurora Borealis, 4.5 m€
EMSO 3.9 m€
FP6 I3
SeaDataNet 8.7 m€
FP6 CA
BlackSeaSCENE, 2 m€
CeMACE 1 m€
DesignAct 0.5 m€
2005 2006
2007
FP6 CNI/DS
2008
2009
2010
FP7 - Call B: IA
FP7 - Call A: PP/IA
2011
2012
2013
2014
Conclusions
 Research Infrastructure action support to Marine
sciences
 Well represented in the ESFRI roadmap
 FP7 funding of 3 « Preparatory Phase » projects and
more projects to come in the next call
 FP7 funding of 4 « Integrating Activity » projects
and one « e-Infrastructure » project
 Future IA topics for the next FP7 calls for proposals
For further information
 Research Infrastructures in Europa
http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures
 ESFRI on CORDIS
http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/
 FP7 and Capacities Specific Programme
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/
 Research Infrastructures on CORDIS (FP6)
http://cordis.europa.eu/infrastructures/