An highlight on NEW Research Infrastructures

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An highlight on NEW Research Infrastructures
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Objectives of the CommunityResearch
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 European scientific community
• Supporting programme implementation and policy
  development (e.g. international cooperation)

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FP7 will increase 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
• Preparatory Phase to support all work needed to
  initiate construction of a new RI
• Implementation Phase - mainly left to MS, the
  owners of the new facilities

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Towards a coherent policy for Research
Infrastructures

• A European Strategy Forum on Research
  Infrastructures
• Launched in April 02
• Brings together representatives of the 27
  Member States,5 Associated States, and one
  representative of the European Commission (EC)

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European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures
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Research Infrastructures and capacity building 

• Research Infrastructures of international
  relevance provide unique opportunities for
• world-level research
• world-level training
• stimulating technology knowledge transfer
• ensuring knowledge preservation
• in brief for Capacity Building 

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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 research and innovation area
  equivalent to the "common market" 

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The Roadmap

• Mandate from the Council of Ministers,November
  2004
• The Roadmap is the result of two years of
  intensive work
• 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

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Social Science and Humanities
6 Projects
CLARIN
CESSDA
EROHS
ESS
SHARE
DARIAH
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Environmental Sciences
AURORA BOREALIS
IAGOS-ERI
7 Projects
EUFAR
EURO-ARGO
LIFEWATCH
EMSO
ICOS
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Energy
Need to nucleate further work
IFMIF
HiPER
3 Projects
JHR
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Biomedical and Life Sciences
6 Projects
STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
BIOBANKS
CLINICAL TRIALS
EATRIS
INFRAFRONTIER
Upgrade of EBI
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Material Sciences
7 Projects
IRUVX
ESS
XFEL
ESRF
ILL
ELI
PRINS
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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics
SPIRAL2
5 Projects
European ELT
KM3NeT
SKA
FAIR
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Computer Data Treatment, Particle and Space
Physics
EUHPC (e-IRG)
The CERN Council strategy for particle physics
The ESA Cosmic Vision
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Global Dimension

• Several of the projects on the Roadmap require a
  global approach 
• ESFRI has entered into a dialogue with the OECD
  Global Science Forum for the identification,
  planning, discussion and monitoring of such
  projects
• Major players are Australia, China, India, Japan,
  Latin America, Russia, South Africa, USA series
  of meetings in progress
• ESFRI encourages constructive debate

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The Preparatory Phase of New Research
Infrastructures
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ESFRI roadmap projects

• ESFRI roadmap reflects Member States priorities
  for new pan-European research infrastructures to
  be developed
• FP7 will play a catalysing and leveraging role
  to foster their emergence
• ? Member States role will remain central to
  develop these facilities

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The Preparatory phaseand FP7

• Member States not necessarily need the EC
  support
• nevertheless, FP7 could help, in facilitating
  decision-making (no automatic funding)
• The first call is restricted to the projects
  identified in the 2006 ESFRI roadmap

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Preparatory phase- purpose

• To provide a framework facilitating
  decision-making between partners from different
  countries
• To address all the critical issues (legal,
  financial,..) that need to be resolved to allow
  the project moving forward

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Preparatory Phase What can be done ?

• Work expected to focus on
• strategic
• governance
• legal and
• financial issues
• Technical work also possible but cannot be the
  core of the preparatory phase
• Work targeted at resolving bottlenecks in
  decision-making

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Preparatory Phase facilitating financial
engineering for new research infrastructures
Member States
European Commission
Stakeholdersincl. EIROs
Inclusion in national Programmes
Inclusion in Specific RTD Programme(s)
Inclusion in DG REGIO / DG DEV strategic plans
Projects
EIB
RSFF
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Who are the participants ?

• Consortia should involve all stakeholders
  necessary to make the project a reality
• ? e.g. ministries, research councils, funding
  agencies from interested countries as
  appropriate, operators, research centres,
  universities, ind,
• Open to participants from third countries
• Possibility for new participants to join at
  later stage

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Eligibility, resources, duration of the
Preparatory Phase

• PP is NOT a feasibility nor a design study
• More than ONE proposal per topic might mean that
  the project is NOT mature
• Minimum 3 participants from 3 MS (support from 3
  funding agencies)
• EC Funding as per the FP7 rules
• Limited direct EC financial contribution,typicall
  y within the range 1-7 M
• Typically from 1 to 4 years

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Planning of calls and indicative budget
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Evaluation criteria

• Criterion 1 ST excellence
• Facility offering world-level service to users
• Contribution to scientific excellence
• Effectiveness of associated work plan

Importance of complementarity with existing
facilities
e.g. planning of staff recruitment and access
rules
e.g. for the identification of the best possible
site
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Evaluation criteria

• Criterion 2 Implementation
• Appropriate management structure
• All relevant parties on board
• Appropriate resources

Organisation of consortia, plans for
decision-making, etc
Consortia should clearly involve funding agencies

• There should already be some financial
  commitments
• Organisation of operational / business plans

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Evaluation criteria

• Criterion 3 Impact
• Addressing critical questions still unresolved
• Contribution to attractiveness of the ERA
• Catalytic effect of EC involvement

PP activities should lead to a final financial
agreement
Consolidation of clusters of excellence, world
leadership
e.g. ratio of Community impact(s) versus EC
fundingRemember EC funding within the range 1-7
M
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FP7 Research Infrastructures in brief
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in summary, an improved FP7 action for
Research Infrastructures

• Better consistency within FP7 (targeted calls)
• Tackling better fragmentation (Integrating
  Activities)
• Catalysing effect towards the construction or
  major upgrade of Research Infrastructures
• A vision for the next 10-20 years fostering
  capacity building and excellence

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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 (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.htmlhttp/
  /www.e-irg.org
• Research Infrastructures in Europa (on-line soon)
• http//ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures

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