An highlight on Research Infrastructures

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An highlight on Research Infrastructures
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FP7 2007 - 2013
Budget (M) - Source Council decision in
December 2006
Capacities
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Definition of Research Infrastructures

• Facilities, resources, and related services
  usedby the scientific community for
• Conducting leading-edge research
• Knowledge transmission, knowledge exchangesand
  knowledge preservation
• Includes
• Major scientific equipment
• Scientific collections, archives and structured
  information
• ICT-based infrastructures
• Entities of a unique nature, used for research

Knowledge  industry 
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• European Survey of Research Infrastructures
• Aim analysis respective trends developments
• March-April 06 Initial submission phase led by
  EC
• May-December 06 Validation process by ESF
• Validation of the entries received by EC
• Nomination of missing major RIs
• December 06- up to now Finalization by EC
• Getting responses from RIs nominated by ESF
• Breaking down all RIs by categories
• Extracting the first results from the database

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This analysis looks at the598 replies received
from Research Infrastructures related
organisations and validated by ESF and EC
They do NOT represent an assessment or
analysis of the overall situation of RI in
Europe! However it shows the current trends
within Europe and lessons can be drawn. This
database of RIs will need to be continuously
updated in the future.
Selected slides more information available in
the draft report to be presented end of the month
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9 major domains related with the 598 identified
facilities
More than 25 500 permanent scientists are
working in such facilities
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Three types of Research Infrastructures
There is of course variation between the
different domains here are given the min and
max share of single-sited RIs respectively for
materials sciences and social sciences
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Costs
Construction Costs
The majority of European RIs are of small to
medium size as to their construction costs
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Level of average minimum investment for
building a Research Infrastructure
20 M threshold?
NB Pure theoretical comparison, calculating
the sum of minimum construction costs indicated
by the respondents divided by the number of RIs
per domain
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Operational costs
The most usual operational cost is 1-10 M a year
in all domains
equivalent to a reasonable portion of the
construction cost
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Sources of Funding National vs International
national only
international only
national and international
not specified (incl. private)
As expected, the survey shows that existing
facilities have been supported mainly by national
funding but that their operation is increasingly
open to international
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More than 145.000 external users per year
Foreign Users
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About 1/3 of all RIs have more than 50 foreign
users among their external users In physics,
this share reaches 54 of RIs
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Remote users
For 60 of all RIs, 90 of users are using the
RIs on-site although, in the SS domain,
internet is the preferred tool
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Potential for Growth and importance of developing
e-infrastructures
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Age
Years in Operation
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Quite mature facilities The BMS domain is clearly
the one which has developed most recently in
Europe
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50
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Age
Lets look at the new and recently upgraded RIs
Quite a lot of renewal overall, but the energy
field confirms the need to be stimulated
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• Importance of Community actions
• to reduce European fragmentation and dispersion
  of existing facilities
• To stimulate more international organisation in
  certain fields
• To help developing a research market for access
  to and use ofinstallations / research services

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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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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

About 180 M per year during FP6

• For new research infrastructures
• Design studies
• Construction (incl. major upgrades)

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Main characteristics of an FP6 Integrating
Activity

• 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 30-40
• Joint Research Activities 40-50
• List of funded projects (FP6) http//cordis.europa
  .eu/infrastructures/projects

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EUSAAR (Environment)
Developing a pan-European research infrastructure
for the measurements of atmospheric properties
EC contribution 5.1 M

• TA (0.2 M)
• 11 ground-based stations for atmospheric research
  
• NA (3.2 M)
• Standards and exchange of good practices on
  sampling, measurement and analysis of aerosol
  parameters
• Training on aerosol sampling and measurements
• Web portal and Database on aerosol products
• JRA (1.7 M)
• Methodology for determining aerosol optical
  density
• Standards for aerosol hygroscopic growth analysis
• A real time data collection of aerosol
  measurements

• A network of research stations based on
  regional diversity

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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

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IA-SFS (Analytical Facilities)
Developing a pan-European Synchrotron and Free
Electron Laser infrastructure

• TA (19 M)
• 15 installations, with 4000 users from a very
  broad spectrum of disciplines
• NA (2 M)
• Specialized workshops, conferences and schools
• (support areas of transnational cooperation)
• Exchange of scientists
• JRA (6 M)
• European platform for Protein Crystallography
• Development of
• Instrumentation for Femtosecond Pulses
• Diffractive x-ray optics
• Superconducting Undulator
• Photoinjector for X-ray Free Electron Lasers

EC contribution 27 M

• Offering a common access platform

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EGEE (grids)

• 500 sites in 40 countries
• gt 60 Virtual Organisations
• 24 000 CPUs
• gt 5 PB storage
• gt 10 000 concurrent jobs/day

• Scientific communities Life Sciences
• High Energy Physics Biomedics
• Astrophysics Earth
  Sciences
• Computational Chemistry Finance
• Fusion Geophysics Multimedia

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GÉANT (global dimension)
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DEISA cluster of supercomputers (grids)
21.900 processors and 145 TF in 2006, more than
190 TF in 2007
AIX IBM domain
LINUX SGI
SARA (NL)
LRZ (DE)
IDRIS (FR)
RZG (DE)
LINUX Power-PC
CINECA (IT)
FZJ (DE)
ECMWF (UK)
High Performance Common Global File System
BSC (ES)
CSC (FI)
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FP7 will continue supporting existing Research
Infrastructures

• Integrating Activities to promote the coherent
  use and development of research infrastructures
  in a given field, implemented through
• Bottom-up calls
• Targeted calls
• ICT based e-infrastructures in support of
  scientific research

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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

ERANETS
65 M 2007-2013
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Planning of calls and indicative budget
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Call for proposalsN1 launched early 2007
Integrating Activities

• 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

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Next calls for proposals N2 (e-infrastructures)
N 3

• Indicative budget of 64 282 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 6 Sept 2007 (call 2) 2 May 2008 (call
  3)
• More information to be provided mid-2007

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Topics for RIs under the targeted approach

• 29 priority topics in 8 of the Cooperation
  domains
• Health (6)
• Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology (4)
• Information and Communication Technologies (3)
• Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies and Materials (2)
• Energy (5)
• Environment (4)
• Transport (2)
• Socioeconomic Sciences and Humanities (3)

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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/
• Research Infrastructures in Europa (on-line soon)
• http//ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures