Kyriakos Baxevanidis

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Meeting in Italian Ministry of Education and
Research, Rome, 23 January 2006
EU e-Infrastructure plans for FP7
Kyriakos Baxevanidis Deputy Head of
Unit Research Infrastructures European
Commission, DG INFSO kyriakos.baxevanidis_at_cec.eu.i
nt e-Infrastructure http//www.cordis.europa.eu.i
nt/ist/rn/
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Role of EU investment on Research Infrastructures
(RI)

• Each 1 of public RD leads to 93 cent of
  business RD investment (FP7 Impact Analysis)
• Effect typically much bigger when investment
  concerns multiple purpose and cross-border RI
  (notably ICT)
• Higher economic multiplier effect from
  trans-national collaboration
• Lower investment risk through involvement of key
  research players
• and of broad range of expertise
• Used and exploited by large community of
  scientists industries
• Research increasingly based on cross-organisationa
  l, cross- national virtual collaborationssharing
  of knowledge and resources through the use of
  appropriate facilities becomes key

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Strategy to achieve innovation in infrastructures
Applications from eScience to eBusiness, eGov,
eWork, eHealth, risk management
Broadband Security Mobility Software Distributed
Computing Grid technology
Research and Deployment
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Strategic building blocks of the e-Infrastructure
today

• 250m in FP6

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GÉANT and Grids - world leading e-Infrastructures
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Launching the next e-Infrastructure phase (FP6)
Core Grid projects
GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE

• Focus on
• New (SW/HW) installations,
• configuration, stabilisation, robustness
• Provision of 24/7 operation service
• (production quality infrastructures)
• Resource sharing procedures policies

GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE
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Launching the next e-Infrastructure phase (FP6)
- interoperability, inclusiveness
Core Grid projects
GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE

• Focus on
• New (SW/HW) installations,
• configuration, stabilisation, robustness
• Provision of 24/7 operation service
• (production quality infrastructures)
• Resource sharing procedures policies

GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE
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Launching the next e-Infrastructure phase (FP6)
- interoperability, inclusiveness
Re-engineer, provide building blocks for
grid-infrastructures to be constructed in a
flexible and robust way build on EGEE, UNICORE,
GLOBUS
GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE

• Focus on
• New (SW/HW) installations,
• configuration, stabilisation, robustness
• Provision of 24/7 operation service
• (production quality infrastructures)
• Resource sharing procedures policies

GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE
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Launching the next e-Infrastructure phase (FP6)
- interoperability, inclusiveness
Building a common market for ICT-resources in
Europe
Core Grid projects
GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE

• Focus on
• New (SW/HW) installations,
• configuration, stabilisation, robustness
• Provision of 24/7 operation service
• (production quality infrastructures)
• Resource sharing procedures policies

GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE
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e-Infrastructure periphery expanding fast (FP6)
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Significant contributions from Italy in
e-Infrastructure
E.g. Italian participation in projects funded
by Infrastructures-7 call (55m budget)
corresponds to about 19 of total budget for
EU-organisations
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e-Infrastructure an evolutionary path
Policy - eIRG
Testbeds
Grid Infrastructures
Network Infrastructure
Testbeds
Network Infrastructure
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e-Infrastructure an evolutionary path
Policy - eIRG
Testbeds
Grid Infrastructures
Network Infrastructure
Testbeds
Network Infrastructure
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Strong EU support to Grid-research complements
effort

• 125m in FP6

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FP7 approach Continuity and new Impetus

• Continuity
• Thematic priorities
• Scaling up ERA coordination actions
• Scaling up Marie Curie actions
• Scaling up SME measures
• Seven years duration
• New Impetus
• Doubling of budget per year
• European Research Council
• Joint Technology Initiatives
• New research infrastructures
• Mainstreaming NEST/FET, SSP/Priority8, Intl
  Cooperation
• New management schemes

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FP7 overview (Commission proposal) 2007-2013
Cooperation 44735 M (61) (ICT 12670 M )
Ideas 11942 M (16)
People 7178 M (10)
Capacities 7536 M (10)
JRC 1824 M (3)
http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/future/document
s_en.cfm
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FP7 - Cooperation Collaborative research themes

Nano, materials, production 4865 M (11)
ICT 12756 M (28.5)
Energy 2951 M (7)
Environment 2552 M (6)
Transport 5981 M (13)
Food, agriculture, biotech 2472 M (6)
Socio-econ research 798 M (2)
Space and security 3987 M (9)
Health 8373 M (18)
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FP7 - ICT Technology platforms

• Collaboration initiatives uniting stakeholders
  around a common vision approach for research in
  their field
• They put specific focus on the definition of a
  strategic research agenda the mobilisation of
  the necessary critical mass of research
  innovation effort

• Criteria include
• Inability of existing instruments to achieve
  objectives
• Degree and clarity of definition of objectives
• Financial and resource commitment from industry
• Capacity to attract additional national support
• Leveraging of current / future industry funding

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Grid Research Technology Platform for FP7
A European Technology Platform for Software,
Grids e-Services
www.nessi-europe.com
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The Capacities Specific Programme of FP7

• It consists of the following elements
• Optimising the use and development of Research
  Infrastructures
• Strengthening innovative capacities of SMEs and
  their ability to benefit from research
• Supporting the development of regional
  research-driven clusters
• Unlocking the research potential in the EUs
  convergence and outermost regions
• Bringing science and society closer together for
  the harmonious integration of science and
  technology in European society
• Horizontal actions measures in support of
  intern. cooperation

To enhance research and innovation capacity of EU
economy - bottom-up versus top-down approach in
Technology Platforms -
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The Capacities Specific Programme of FP7
Research infrastructures 3987 M (54)
Research for benefit of SMEs 1914 M (25)
International cooperation 359 M (5)
Regions of knowledge 160 M (2)
Science in society 558 M (7)
Research potential 558 M (7)
http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/future/document
s_en.cfm
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Discussions on FP7 financial resources are
on-going

• Total proposed FP7 financial resources by
  Commission 73 B
• European Council Dec 2005 meeting on EU financial
  perspectives suggested FP7 financial resources to
  adjust to 50 B

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FP7 proposed plans for Research Infrastructures
Reinforce the budget for Research Infrastructures
! Reinforce liaison with Thematic Priorities !
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A stage-gate process towards new RI in FP7
Identification of projects Decision making
Funding
ESFRI, e-IRG Roadmap and potential projects
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A stage-gate process towards new RI in FP7
Identification of projects Decision making
Funding
ESFRI, e-IRG Roadmap and potential projects
Important collaboration at National/EU level to
maximise benefit
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Roadmap for e-Infrastructure e-IRG ESFRI
e-IRG www.e-IRG.org ESFRI www.cordis.lu/esfri
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e-IRG meeting in Dec 2005 under UK-presidency

• Synergy with ESFRI Expert Group on Computing and
  Data (Supercomputing issues etc)
• Task-Force on Integrated Data Management
• New Task-Force to address requirements for a more
  advanced and stable service-provisioning model of
  grid-based e-Infrastructures

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Production Grid-RI current service provisioning
model

• Based on two core projects (EGEE and DEISA)
  others enhance, expand or use the basic
  infrastructure that the above projects provide
• Strong role of some user-communities (HEP,
  biology etc) new user communities can only join
  within the limited resources, structure, duration
  and support of above projects
• Current EC-funding model/instrument reaching its
  limits in view of the continuous enlargement of
  the core projects (geographical expansion, more
  and more organisations)

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Long-term preservation of current service
provisioning model poses important challenges as
community enlarges

• Non-optimal pace of integration of new
  user-communities, pooling of resources, know-how
  transfer across scientific disciplines
• Non-optimal use of infrastructure across
  different application fields
• High turn-over of key-personnel (in many cases
  leaving Europe) due to short employment/project
  cycles

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A more advanced, stable pervasive
service-provisioning scheme for grid-based
e-Infrastructures is proposed

• Establish Grid-service centres
• On local, regional or other appropriate level
  the EGEE federation local service scheme
  provides a useful paradigm
• To operate production grid e-Infrastructures for
  a wide range of application communities
• To provide, in addition, training and support to
  users
• Implementing a stable funding scheme independent
  of (short in general) project cycles
• To function as one-stop-shop service points in
  the use of grid-based e-Infrastructure
• To promote interoperability among infrastructures
  and harmonized policies in their use (e.g. AAA,
  resource-sharing)
• To promote collaborations with industry (based on
  the stable operational environment they support)

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A more advanced, stable pervasive
service-provisioning scheme for grid-based
e-Infrastructures is proposed

• Separate infrastructure-operation and
  infrastructure-policy concerns
• Grid-service centres to focus on operational,
  administrative and training aspects
• A high-level committee of national
  representatives could steer the process on
  political level and provide long-term strategy
  and support the GÉANT Policy Committee scheme
  provides a useful paradigm
• Effort requires to put emphasis on strong
  National Grid infrastructures and relevant
  commitments by Member States and the Commission

A broad discussion on the topic is launched
through the e-IRG Task Force
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Example the EGEE operations service provisioning
model
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FP7 implementation Timetable
Call 4
Call 5
Call 1
Call 2
Call 3
Call 6
FP6
2003
2004
2005
2006
FP7
2007 - 2013
Communication on FP7 orientations
Adoption
FP7, SPs, RfPproposals
FP7 Work Programmes Calls
New Financial Perspectives
2007 - 2013
Communication on new financial perspectives
Agreement
Legislative proposals
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Next in the e-Infrastructure agenda for FP7

• Emphasis on work of the Task Forces/Expert Groups
  on the roadmap (e-IRG)
• Area-specific workshops to provide additional
  feedback for FP7 work-programmes (in particular
  in new areas like supercomputing,
  data-repositories etc)
• Continue discussions on linking further the
  e-Infrastructure with thematic-area activities
  (like ICT, Environment etc) proposed ideas
  include synchronized calls for proposals etc

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Thank you!
Thank you!