Swedish Research Council, KFI and the

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• Swedish Research Council, KFI and the
• funding of fusion research
• Per Karlsson
• RUSA, 5 May 2009

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Research financing in Sweden
Gross expenditures on RD in 2007
Source Eurostat
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Research financing in Sweden
Source Statistics Sweden 2007
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Large research funding organisations in Sweden -
focus and size in 2005
Area scales with budget
Source Government bill on Research policy
2004/0580
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Government budget for RD 2008
Research financing in Sweden
Total 25,6 billion SEK
Source Statistics Sweden
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Vetenskapsrådet
Styrelse
ÄR-HS
ÄR-M
UVK
KFI
ÄR-NT
H.s. UVK
H.s. KFI
H.s. HS
H.s. M
H.s. NT
Generaldirektör
Organisation
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Generaldirektör Biträdande GD
Rådsdirektör
Avd för planering samordning
Kommunikations avdelningen
Administrativa avdelningen
Avdelningen för forskningspolitisk analys
Avdelningen för forskningsstöd
Ekonomiadministrativa enheten
Enheten för omvärldsanalys
Enheten för anställning
Personaladministrativa enheten
Enheten för statistik och analys
Enheten för infrastrukturstöd
Enheten för utvärdering
Enheten för miljö- och programstöd
Enheten för projektstöd
Enheten för uppföljning
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What caracterizes research infrastructures?

• For a research infrastructure to be fully or
  partly funded it should meet the following
  general criteria. It shall
• be of broad national interest
• provide scope for outstanding research
• be used by several research groups/users with
  highly advanced research projects
• be so extensive that individual groups cannot
  manage them on their own
• have a long-term plan addressing scientific
  goals, financing, and use
• be open and easily accessible for researchers and
  have a plan for improving accessibility (concerns
  both use of the infrastructure, access to
  collected data, and presentation of results)

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Infrastructure categories

• A. Infrastructures operating under international
  conventions.
• CERN, ESO, EMBL, ESRF
• B. Infrastructures operating via other
  international collaboration and that are openly
  accessible.
• e.g. Institut Laue-Langevin, IceCube, GBIF
• C. Infrastructures at the national level that are
  openly accessible to all researchers
• e.g. MAX-lab, Onsala rymdobservatorium
• D. Networks of type-E nodes (below) at the
  national level that promote open accessibility
  among researchers and specialisation and
  complementary support among the nodes.
• e.g. Myfab, vissa core facilities
• E. Equipment or databases used jointly by
  research groups, mainly at a faculty or larger
  institution.
• e.g. core facilities
• F. Equipment in a research groups laboratory, or
  databases at the research group level. Used
  mainly by the research group, but also partly in
  collaborationwith other research groups

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Research infrastructure

• National and international
• Accelerators and observatories
• Nano-micro electronics laboratories
• Large databases
• Biobanks
• Computer networks (SUNET)
• High performance computation (SNIC)

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International research facilities

• Examples
• CERN
• European Particle Physics Laboratory, Genève.
• ESO
• European Southern Observatory, Chile.
• ESRF
• European Synchroton Radiation Facility, Grenoble.
  
• JET
• Joint European Torus, England.
• EMBL
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
  Heidelberg. Hamburg,
• Grenoble, Cambridge och Monterotondo.
• EISCAT

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Evaluation panels - KFI

• Infrastructure for Astronomy and Subatomic
  Research
• Infrastructure for Molecule, Cell and Material
  research
• Infrastructure for Earth and Environmental
  Sciences
• Infrastructure for eScience

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Funding instruments - KFI

• Project grants to generate ideas and concepts
  (Sc. Councils)
• Planning grants for design studies and planning
  of construction or collaboration
• Grants for expensive scientific equipment that
  can be used to construct joint infrastructures
• Grants for large databases to develop and
  maintain quality assured databases made
  accessible to researchers
• Operational grants to operate joint research
  infrastructures.

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Process for applications - KFI

• Scientific Councils evaluation panels
• KFIs working groups
• Sammanvägningsgrupp
• KFI decides

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Tasks - KFI

• research funding
• evaluations of research infrastructures
• representing Sweden in international
  infrastructure organisations
• long term strategic planning, including
  developing and revising a national roadmap on
  research infrastructures

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A Swedish roadmap for research infrastructures

• The Swedish Research Councils Guide to
  Infrastructure (2006, 2008, 2009, ..)
• applies for 10-20 years

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VR support to fusion research

• Project grants by The Scientific Council for
  Natural and Engineering Sciences
• Operational grant - KFI
• Ear-marked funding Activities in support of
  ITER - KFI

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New review panel for fusion applications

• Former review panel for fusion no longer exists
• Fusion applications to the new evaluation panel
  for Subatomic physics, astrophysics, space
  physics and fusion research

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Funding from VR-NT (and Energimyndigheten)
Mkr
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Funding from VR-KFI
Mkr