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Research Infrastructures
European Added Value, Strategy & policy
Christian Kurrer, European Commission
Bonn, 15.1.2007
The context…
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
and capacity building
Research Infrastructures of pan-European
relevance provide unique opportunities for:
• world-level research
• world-level training
• Technology & knowledge transfer
• ensuring knowledge preservation
… in brief for
European Capacity Building
Excellence and
Research Infrastructures
Europe has a long-standing tradition of
excellence in research and its teams
continue to lead progress in many fields
• However our centres of excellence often
fail to reach critical mass
• There is a need to bring resources
together and to build a European Research
Area equivalent to the "common market"
Community activities
under FP6 (2002-2006)
For existing research infrastructures
• Integrating Activities: to structure better, on a
European scale, the way such facilities operate
and promote their coherent use and development
• e-infrastructures: to foster development of
high-capacity + performance communication
networks and grid infrastructures
For new research infrastructures
• Design studies
• Construction (incl. major upgrades)
Community activities
under FP6 (2002-2006)
Facts and Figures:
• Total budget:
732 .2 M€
»of which 222 for GRID + GEANT
• Number of projects
142
• Number of RIs supported
248
• Potential number of users
>20000
IA-SFS
(Analytical Facilities)
Developing a pan-European Synchrotron
and Free Electron Laser infrastructure
Importance
of
I3s:
TA (~19 M€):
EC contribution: 27 M€
• 15 installations, with 4000 users from a very broad
spectrum of disciplines
• to reduce European fragmentation
NA (~2 M€):
and dispersion
of existing facilities
• Specialized workshops, conferences and schools
(support areas of transnational cooperation)
developing
an internal
• Exchange of scientists
• To help
JRA (~6 M€):for access to
research market
• European platform for Protein Crystallography
installations
and
• Development of:
Instrumentation for Femtosecond Pulses
for research ••services
Diffractive x-ray optics
• Superconducting Undulator
• Photoinjector for X-ray Free Electron Lasers
 Offering a common access platform
EUPRIM-Net
(Biomedical Sciences)
Developing a pan-European research
infrastructure of primate centres
EC contribution: ~4.7 M€
TA (~1.3 M€):
• Gene, tissue, cell, gamete and serum banks
• Experimental animals
NA (~1.7 M€):
• Standards (SOPs for quarantine and experiments)
• Training on handling (blood sampling, injections…)
• Courses and textbook (primate behaviour,
husbandry, nutrition…)
JRA (~1.7 M€):
• Molecular typing methods
• Pathogen detection assays
• Telemetry prototyping
 Refinement, Replacement
Main characteristics
of an average Integrating
Activity under FP6
 Average number of contractors: 19 of which 7
are offering access
 Typical duration of 4 years
 Average EC contribution: ~10 M€
Management: ~ 6%
Networking Activities: ~ 15%
Trans-national Access: ~ 36%
Joint Research Activities: ~ 43%
 List of funded projects (FP6)
http://cordis.europa.eu/infrastructures/projects
Towards a coherent policy
for Research Infrastructures
• A European Strategy Forum on
Research Infrastructures
• Launched in April 02
• Brings together
representatives of
the 25 Member States,
7 Associated States, and
one representative of the
European Commission (EC)
ESFRI
European Strategy Forum
on Research Infrastructures
Role of ESFRI
• 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
A stimulation
and incubator role
ESFRI
European Strategy Forum
on Research Infrastructures
The Roadmap
• Mandate from the Council of Ministers,
November 2004
• The Roadmap is the result of two years of
intensive work (published October 2006)
• About 1000 high-level experts were
involved, from every MS and AS, from
most fields and user communities, giving
the end product credibility and quality.
It is the beginning of
an ongoing process
ESFRI
European Strategy Forum
on Research Infrastructures
Proposed new facilities
for Biomedical and Life Sciences
BIOBANKS
EBI upgrade
STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY CLINICAL TRIALS
EATRIS
INFRAFRONTIER
ESFRI
European Strategy Forum
on Research Infrastructures
Towards FP7…
FP7 2007 - 2013
Budget (M€) - Source: Council decision in December 2006
JRC
1751
Euratom
4062
Capacities
4097
People
4750
Ideas
7510
Cooperation
32413
“Capacities”
Dev. of policies
1,5% - 70 M€
Research
Infrastructures
42% - 1715 M€
INCO
4,5% - 180 M€
Science in Society
8% - 330 M€
SMEs
33% - 1336 M€
Regions of
Knowledge
3% - 126 M€
Research Potential
8% - 340 M€
Objectives of the Community
Research Infrastructures action
 Optimising the use and 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 scientific community
 Supporting programme implementation
and policy development
(e.g. international cooperation)
Support to existing
Research Infrastructures
 Integrating Activities to promote the coherent
use and development of research
infrastructures in a given field, implemented
through:
A bottom-up approach for proposals open to
all fields of science
Targeted approach with topics defined in cooperation
with the FP7 thematic areas
 ICT based e-infrastructures
in support of scientific research
EGEE (grids)
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~ 500 sites in 40 countries
 Scientific communities
> 60 Virtual Organisations
High Energy Physics
~ 24 000 CPUs
Astrophysics
> 5 PB storage
Computational Chemistry
> 10 000 concurrent jobs/day
Fusion
Geophysics
Life Sciences
Biomedics
Earth Sciences
Finance
Multimedia…
Call for proposals
N°1 – launched early 2007
 Existing e-infrastructures (42 M€)
Scientific Digital Repositories, deployment of
e-Infrastructures for new Scientific Communities,
 Support measure for some FP6 I3
(finishing before March 2008)
 Closure: 2 May 2007
 Single stage procedure for evaluation
remote + panel evaluation
 First contracts will come into force
before the end of 2007
Next calls for proposals
N°2 (e-infrastructures) + N° 3
Indicative budget of 84 + 275 M€
 25 to 30 RTD projects to be selected
 Call 2: e-science GRID, GÉANT and
Scientific Data Infrastructures
 Call 3: for RTD; both bottom up and
targeted approach
 Closure:
Autumn 2007 (call 2) + March 2008 (call 3)
 More information to be provided mid-2007
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Support to new
Research Infrastructures
 Design studies: to support the conceptual design
for new facilities or major upgrades, of clear
European dimension and interest
through bottom-up calls
 Support to the Construction of new infrastructures
and major upgrades to existing ones
Preparatory phase
Construction phase
Support
Actions
… through a mixed bottom-up / top down approach,
for:
– the development of an RI European policy and
the development of international cooperation
– Supporting programme implementation (NCPs)
and the coordination of research infrastructures
in emerging areas
FP7 will support the design
of new research infrastructures
(or major upgrades)
 Design studies aiming at the
conceptual design,
not at a detailed design
 Case of e-Infrastructures: to foster new
organisational models in domains of grids & data
 EC support likely to be smaller than under FP6,
i.e. less than 5 M€
 bottom-up call…
 Useful to feed the ESFRI roadmap process
For the construction
of new research infrastructures
(or major upgrades)
… and major upgrades to existing ones
Support to the preparatory phase
mainly based on the ESFRI work
two calls foreseen (2007 and 2009)
(in addition) support to RSFF
(limited) available resources to
support the construction
First call for proposals
closing in spring 2007
 For design studies, preparatory phase, and
support actions
design studies: 35 M€
Support actions: 28 M€
(budget 2007-2008)
 Indicative budget for preparatory phase:
34 projects (budget 2007-2008)
 Closure: 2nd May 2007
 First contracts to come into force
before end 2007
Support measures
under the 1st call…
 For:
ERA-NETs
Studies, conferences, coordination actions
for policy development (e-infrastructures)
NCPs and other support actions, as appropriate
 Indicative budget of 28 M€
15 to 20 projects to be selected
 Closure: 2 May 2007
Call N°3
closing early 2008 - only 5 M€
The Preparatory Phase
under the 1st call …
 Member States not necessarily need the EC
support…
 … nevertheless, FP7 could help, in facilitating
decision-making (no automatic funding)
 A first call will be restricted to the projects
identified in the 2006 ESFRI roadmap
 One proposal per topic is expected
 Targeted at resolving bottlenecks in decisionmaking and supporting long-term consistency of
research-oriented public actions
The Preparatory Phase
under the 1st call …
 Tasks focusing on:
Strategy development
Planning of Technical work (e.g. final prototypes)
Governance and logistical work
Financial arrangements
Legal issues
 The first call will be restricted to the projects
identified in the 2006 ESFRI roadmap
 Direct EC (average) contribution around 5 M€
The preparatory Phase…
Who are the participants ?
• Consortia should involve all stakeholders
necessary to make the project a reality
 e.g. ministries, governments, research
councils, funding agencies from interested
countries + as appropriate, research
centres, universities, industries,
international organisations…
• Minimum 3 participants from 3 Member
States or Associated States
(recommendation: at least 3 agencies…)
Who are the participants ?
How to manage ?
• Open to participants from third countries
• Possibility for new participants to join at
later stage
• … but be careful with too large consortia…
• Coordinator to act as a « team builder »
• The EC will act as a “facilitator”
What can be done ?
Legal work, e.g.
• To establish the legal basis for the new panEuropean Research Infrastructures
Governance and logistic work, e.g.
• Plans in terms of decision making, management
structure, advisory bodies, IPR, access rule,
• Staff recruitment, researchers support….
What can also be done ?
Strategic work, e.g.
• Plans to integrate the new RI in the EU fabric
of related facilities, identification of best
possible site(s), systems, etc.
• Planning of research services to be provided at
international level, etc.
Technical work, e.g.
• Draft engineering plans for construction,
• Final prototypes, new processing protocols,
software, etc.
Preparatory Phase
facilitating financial engineering
for new research infrastructures
Member
States
Inclusion in
national
Programmes
European
Commission
Stakeholders
incl. EIROs
Inclusion in
Inclusion in
Specific RTD DG REGIO / DG DEV
Programme(s)
strategic plans
Projects
EIB
FP7 Research
Infrastructures in brief
Existing Infrastructures
New Infrastructures
Integrating activities
Design studies
e-infrastructures
Construction
(preparatory phase;
construction phase)
Policy Development and Programme Implementation
ESFRI
Roadmap
Useful links
 FP7 Proposal and Capacities Specific Programme
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities.htm
 Research Infrastructures on CORDIS (FP6)
http://cordis.europa.eu/infrastructures/
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/rn/
 ESFRI (Eur. Strategy Forum for Research Infrastr.)
http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/home.html
 e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG)
http://www.e-irg.org
 International Scientific cooperation policy:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/iscp/
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Danke
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Gracias
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Kiitos
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Merci
Many thanks
for your attention
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