Research Infrastructures

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Research Infrastructures

• Eeva Ikonen
• 20.2.2007
• Jyväskylä

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FP7 2007 2013 (50 521 ME)
Cooperation Collaborative research
32 413 ME
Ideas Frontier Research
7510 ME
People Human Potential
4750 ME
Capacities Research Capacity
4097 ME
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JRC (non-nuclear nuclear
1751 ME
Euratom
4062 ME
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Capacities Research Capacity

• Research Infrastructures (1715 ME)
• Research for the benefit of SMEs (1336 ME)
• Regions of Knowledge (126 ME)
• Research Potential (340 ME)
• Science in Society (330 ME)
• Coherent development of policies (70 ME)
• Activities of International Cooperation (180 ME)

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Definition of Research Infrastructures

• The term research infrastructures refers to
  facilities, resources and related services that
  are used by scientific community to conduct
  top-level research in their respect field.
• This covers major scientific equipment or set of
  instruments, collections, archives, ICT based
  infrastructures.
• They might be single sited or distributed
  (network of resources)

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FP7 Research Infrastructures in brief
ESFRI roadmap
Objectives to optimise the use, development and
integration of the best Ris existing in Europe to
help create new Ris of pan-European interest (or
major upgrades)
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FP7 activities in the field of Research
Infrastructures

• Optimising the use and development of the best
  existing RIs in Europe
• Helping to create in all fields of science and
  technology new RIs, of pan-European interest
• Supporting policy development

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ICT-based InfrastructuresBoundary with other
activities

• Data is a key infrastructure for scientific
  communities, but dramatic increase in raw data
  requires a change in culture
• Specific e-infrastructures needed for storage,
  high speed connectivity, computational grids and
  data management
• High performance computing to be followed under
   new  research infrastructures

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Indicative share of financing
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FP7 will continue supporting integration of
existing RIs

• Activities integrating scientific research
  infrastructures (580 ME 2007-2013)
• Development of e-infrastructures in support of
  scientific research (incl. scientific data
  repositories) (420 ME 2007-2013)
• Implementation through
• Bottom-up calls for proposals open to all fields
  of science
• Targeted calls implemented in coordination with
  thematic areas

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FP7 support to new infrastructures (RIs)

• Desing studies to support the conceptual design
  for new facilities or major upgrades of clear
  European dimension and interest
• - bottom-up calls (70 ME 2007-2013)
• Support to the Construction of new
  infrastructures and major upgrade to existing
  ones
• - based on ESFRI list (530 ME 2007-20013)
• (Direct EC (average) contribution ca. 5 ME/ RI
  to 4 years)

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Supporting integration of existing RIs

• activities integrating scientific research
  infrastructures
• Development of e-infrastructures in support of
  scientific research
• Implementation through
• Bottom-up calls for proposals open to all
  fields of science
• Targeted calls in coordination with thematic
  areas

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Why a targeted approach?

• To ensure consistency and create synergies with
  the cooperation programme
• Strategic approach, stimulating RI actions in
  specific fields, currently not well covered (e.g.
  health, energy, transport)
• Topics identified are complementary to research
  topics under the cooperation programme (a precise
  analysis is available)
• The evaluation procedure will be similar to the
  one for the bottom-up approach.

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Targeted approach criteria for the
identification of topics

• Clear need in FP 7
• Exact coordination with Cooperation programme
  requirements
• Clear link between RD questions of the thematic
  priorities and RI needs
• Synergy and added value, avoidance of overlapping
• Existing RIs relevant to the topic
• There must be a basis of existing RIs of
  European relevance that are ready to cooperate in
  an I3

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First priority topics identified for integrating
activities

• Health (6)
• Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology (3)
• Information and Communication Technologies (3)
• Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies and Materials (2)
• Energy (5)
• Environment (4)
• Transport (3)
• Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (4)
• -gt 30 priority topics for Integrating Activities
  (targeted approach) in 7 fields of RD

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Targeted approachthe budget

• Typical I3 average EC contribution of 10 M
• 30 priority topics for the targeted approach in 7
  fields of RD
• Ideally one proposal per priority topic
• Indicative budget of ?
• -gt Average success rate of about 30 90 M
• -gt Average success rate of about 40 120 M
• -gt Average success rate of about 50 150 M

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Design StudiesScope, targeted versus bottom-up

• Design studies aiming at  conceptual  design,
  not detailed design
• Total cost likely smaller than under FP6, i.e.
  less than 5 M
• Scope larger than the ESFRI identified  emerging
  ideas  bottom-up possible
• but do we have sufficient funds?
• should we not be selective ?

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Construction PhasePreparatory phase

• Support to the ESFRI roadmap in 2007
• Important phase to check that projects are
  recognised by MS as important for Europe
• Tasks supported ranging from technical work and
  strategy development, to preparation of
  logistics, governance plans, legal and financial
  issues
• main deliverable a (draft) agreement between MS
  and stakeholders for the construction
• EC support similar to FP6  design studies ,
  i.e. 5 to 10 M in average.

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Construction PhaseSynergies with other
instruments

• Structural Funds
• Construction of new RIs eligible under SFs
• Construction spanning over the next 10 years
• Preparatory phase needed to prepare files
• RSFF
• Stimulation of a new financial tool for research
  org. (several show cases already existing)
• Eligibility will concern facilities with
  ownership or operation involving entities in at
  least 3 MS or AC
• 40 M already available in 2007 (200 ME 2007-2013)

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Funding Schemes

• For Integrating Activities e-infrastructures
• a combination of collaborative research and
  coordination and support measures
• For new research infrastructures
• collaborative research and coordination and
  support measures (when more appropriate)
• For support actions (65 ME 2007-2013)
• coordination and support measures (incl. NCP
  network)
• ERANETs to be used for supporting coordination of
  national / regional policies

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Evaluation Criteria

• Excellence
• relevance at international level capacity to
  offer a top-level service to scientists
• Impacts
• added value of EU support RI impact on ERA as
  well as on EU sustainable development
• Implementation
• life-cycle costs evaluated quality of
  management stakeholders commitment

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Indicative budget and calls (not final)
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Call for proposals closing in spring 2007

• For
• ICT based e-Infrastructures (91 ME 2007)
• Design studies ST (29 ME) no calls in 2008!
• Design studies e-Ris (6 ME) no calls in 2008!
• Preparatory phase ST (120 ME) (ESFRI list) no
  calls in 2008!
• Preparatory phase e-RI (10 ME) (ESFRI list) no
  calls in 2008!
• ERA-NETs (8 ME 2007)
• Studies, conferences, coordinatiion actions for
  policy development (e-infrastructures) (12 ME
  2007)
• NCPs and other support actions (2 ME 2007)
• FP 6 continuity actions (4 ME)
• Indicative budget 28 ME 2007
• Closure April-May 2007

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Useful links

• FP7 Proposal and Capacities Specific Programme
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities.htm
• Research Infrastructures on CORDIS
• http//www.cordis.lu/infrastructures/
• ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research
  Infrastructures)
• http//www.cordis.lu/esfri/home.html
• e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG)
• http//www.e-irg.org
• Onternational Scientific cooperation policy
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/iscp/