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ERA-Perspectives
European Strategy Forum on
Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)
Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph,
ESFRI chair
NordForsk Seminar, Brussels, February 28th 2012
Outline
- About ESFRI: mandate and mission
- ESFRI´ s contribution to the ERAC-opinion
- Significance of Research Infrastructures within the
ERA
- Horizon 2020/ Funding
- ESFRI projects hosted by northern Member States/
Associated Countries
Mission of ESFRI
The European Strategy Forum on Research
Infrastructures was founded in 2002 by the Research
Ministers of the Member States and the European
Commission
• To support a coherent and strategy-led approach
to policy-making on new and existing panEuropean and global Research Infrastructures (RI);
• To facilitate multilateral initiatives leading to the
better use and development of RI, at EU and
international level.
The Roadmap Mandate
• The Competitiveness Council of the EU mandated ESFRI on
November 2004 to develop a strategic roadmap in the field
of RI for Europe
• The ESFRI roadmap identifies new pan-European Research
Infrastructures (RIs) or major up-grades to existing ones,
corresponding to the needs of European research
communities in the next 10 to 20 years, regardless of
possible location
First Roadmap
in 2006
Update in
Dec 2008
Update in
Dec 2010
A stimulation
and incubator role
Research Infrastructure (RI)
Definition (I)
• contribute to the implementation of the Europe 2020
Strategy and its Innovation Union Flagship Initiative
• Pan-European Research Infrastructures, new or
existing, must provide:
scientific and technological cutting edge and
managerial excellence
clear pan-European added value
top-level services
open access through international competition on
the basis of excellence
Research Infrastructure
Definition (II)
Research Infrastructures
• are facilities, resources or services of a unique nature
that have been identified by European research
communities to conduct top-level activities in all fields;
• they could single-sited, distributed or virtual
Distributed
• Common legal form; single management board
RIs are a guarantee for producing new ideas and
developments which turn into innovation and in a longer
term into jobs
ERA-Mission of ESFRI
«
to also contribute towards supporting the
implementation and monitoring of progress of the
Innovation Union initiative and to provide input, as
appropriate, to the development of a proposal on
the ERA framework «
(Competitiveness Council, May 2011)
Research Infrastructures
within the ERA
Realizing excellent pan-European RI are a very effective
approach to overcome fragmentation and duplication of
research activities within the ERA.
By 2015, Member States together with the Commission
should have completed or launched the construction of
60% of the priority European Research Infrastructures
currently identified by ESFRI”,
Commitment 5, Innovation Union Flagship Initiative
ERA on-line questionnaire confirms
particular relevance of RI
Significance of RI within the ERA was recently
confirmed by the outcome of the on-line
questionnaire for the ERA Framework:
Nearly 70% of the respondents are of the opinion
that RI are (very) important as regards the
completion of the ERA.
ESFRI Success Stories
• From more than 260 proposals, 50 projects have
been identified through several review stages
between 2006 and 2010
• Projects meeting the “grand challenges”
• Update in 2010 in the areas Energy and Biological
and Medical Sciences (6 new projects)
• 10 of the projects are in the implementation phase
and further 16 are proceeding towards the
implementation phase until end of 2012
ESFRI Projects
Area
Roadmap
2010
Implemented
Social Science and Humanities (SSH)
2
3
Environmental Sciences (ENV)
9
0
Biological and Medical Sciences (BMS)
13
0
Energy
6
1
Engineering, Physical Sciences, Materials
and Analytical Facilities (EPS)
8
5
E-Infrastructures
0
1
Major bottlenecks in the
implementation process
1. Lack of (sustainable) funding
2. Many projects struggle with and need guidance in
legal matters (e.g. Intellectual Property rights);
3. European research infrastructure consortium
(ERIC) ERIC regulation must be incorporated in
European Economic area (EEA) agreement.
4. Lack of coordination between various levels and
actors
Major bottlenecks (II)
Need of increased cooperation
• on regional and international level
• with industry.
Need of increased coordination between
• pan-European RI and JPIs
• other European research organisations (such as,
EIROForum, EUROHORCS, NordForsk etc.) and
JRC.
Horizon 2020
H 2020 will be the most important financial instrument to
realize the ERA on EC level.
However, more than 95 % of funding for RI are at present
provided by the Member States/ Associated countries.
The estimated annual operating costs of large RI are two
billion Euros.
The actual financial crisis requires new funding approaches,
may be also a stronger involvement of the EC ( implementation phase, better coordination with structural funds).
ESFRI’s Action Plan
Monitoring scientific developments and emerging research
challenges
Development of an evaluation methodology for panEuropean Research Infrastructures;
Development of closer cooperation between RIs and Joint
Programming Initiatives, JTIs e.g.;
Building up cooperation with European industry;
Addressing the issue of socio-economic impacts;
Promoting greater regional and international cooperation;
Supporting and promoting the use and development of
e-infrastructures.
ESS
European Spallation Source
ESS will be the world’s most powerful long-pulse
source of neutrons at 5MW. Its built-in upgradeability
will make it the most cost-effective top tier source
for the next 40 years. A genuine pan-European facility,
it will serve a community of 5,000 researchers across
many areas of science and technology.
Construction costs: 1478 M€
Operation costs: 110M€/year
Decommissioning: 300 M€
Steering committee established, negotiations
on funding ongoing, fundamental decisions
of legal form and statutes being prepared.
Host countries: Sweden, Denmark
CESSDA
Council of European Social Science Data Archives
CESSDA is a distributed Research Infrastructure
providing and facilitating access to high quality
data and supports their use.
It includes 20 social science data archives
in 20 European countries.
Collectively they serve over 30.000
researchers, providing access to more than
50.000 data collections per annum.
Construction costs: 30 M€
Operation costs: 3 M€/year
Decommissioning: not applicable
Steering committee established, will go for ERIC application soon.
Host Country: Norway
ICOS
Integrated Carbon Observation System
ICOS is a distributed Research Infrastructure
for standardised long-term high
precision monitoring of atmospheric
and oceanic greenhouse gas concentrations,
ecosystem fluxes and essential carbon
cycling variables.
Construction costs: 130 M€
Operation costs: 36 M€/year
Decommissioning: not applicable
Expected host country: Finland
SIOS
Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing
System
The goal of SIOS is to establish an
Observational Research Infrastructure
for the Arctic Earth System, integrating
studies of geophysical, chemical and
biological processes from the research
and monitoring platforms. It corresponds
to a need concerning climate change.
Construction costs: 50 M€
Operation costs: 10 M€/year
Decommissioning: not applicable
Expected host country: Norway
Thank you for your attention.