FP7 Research Infrastructures JeanEmmanuel Faure European Commission, DG Research jeanemmanuel'fauree

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FP7 Research InfrastructuresJean-Emmanuel
FaureEuropean Commission, DG Researchjean-emmanu
el.faure_at_ec.europa.eu
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European Research Area building blocks
Excellent research institutions and universities
Well-coordinated research programmes and
priorities (joint programming)
Single labour market for researchers
European Research Area
World-class research infrastructures
Opening to the world through international
cooperation in ST
Effective sharing of knowledge
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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 exchange and
  knowledge preservation
• They include
• Major scientific equipment
• Scientific collections, archives and structured
  information
• ICT-based infrastructures e-Infrastructures
• Other entities of a unique nature, used for
  research

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Importance of Research Infrastructures for Europe

• At the core of the Research, Innovation,
  Education triangle
• Extending the frontiers of knowledge
• Exchanging and transmitting knowledge
• Training the next generation of top researchers
• Supporting industrial innovation
• For their construction and operation A European
  market of 9 billion Euro per year, with an annual
  growth of 5.5

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Towards a coherent policy for Research
Infrastructures ESFRI

• A European Strategy Forum on Research
  Infrastructures (launched in April 2002)
• Brings together representatives of the 27 Member
  States, Associated States, and one representative
  of the European Commission (EC)
• To discuss the long term vision at European level
  and to support the development of a European RI
  policy
• A Roadmap Report with 44 projects
• Worth 20 B investments over the next 10 years

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A new European legal framework for ERIs

• ESFRI concluded about the need to develop a new
  dedicated legal instrument at Community level
• A Legal Framework, at Community level, for the
  construction and operation of new European
  Research Infrastructures Consortium (ERIC)
• A legal personality recognised in all Member
  States
• To facilitate the joint establishment and
  operation throughout Europe
• Adoption by the Commission end of July 2008
• Adoption by the Council end of June 2009

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Budget for Research Infrastructures under FP7
FP7 budget (50 521 M, current prices)
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Objectives of the CommunityResearch
Infrastructures actions

• To optimise the use and balanced development of
  the best existing research infrastructures in
  Europe
• To help creating in all fields of S T new
  research infrastructures of pan-European interest
  needed by the European scientific community
• To support programme implementation and policy
  development (e.g. international cooperation)

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FP7 Research Infrastructures actions
New Infrastructures
Existing Infrastructures
Construction
Integrating activities
e-infrastructures
Design studies
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Upcoming calls
New Infrastructures
Existing Infrastructures
Integrating activities
Design studies
Policy Development / Programme Implementation
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FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1(DRAFT - pending the
adoption of the 2010 Work Programme)
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Overall information

• Publication 30 July 2009 / Deadline 3 December
  2009
• Indicative budget 217 million euros (M)

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Indicative timetable

• Publication of call 30 July 2009
• Deadline for submission 3 December 2009
  1700 (Brussels time)
• Evaluation of proposals Dec. 2009 Feb. 2010
• Sending of evaluation summary reports
  (ESR) March 2010
• Invitation letter to launch negotiation May
  2010
• First grant agreements From autumn 2010

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Integrating activitiesObjectives and
partnerships

• Continuation of the successful FP6 instrument
  I3 (Integrated Infrastructures Initiative)
• Bring together and integrate, on a European
  scale, key research infrastructures in a given
  class, in order to promote their coordinated use
  and development
• Normally all major Research Infrastructures in
  Europe in one field
• At least 3 independent legal entities from 3
  different Member States or Associated Countries
  (eligibility criterion)

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Integrating activitiesFunding and activities

• EC contribution Up to 10 M per project
  (eligibility criterion)
• Duration 4 years maximum
• Funding scheme combination of collaborative
  project coordination and support actions
  (CP-CSA)
• Three types of activities are mandatory
  (eligibility criterion)
• Networking activities
• Transnational access and/or service activities
• Joint research activities

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Integrating activities Networking activities

• To foster a culture of cooperation between the
  research infrastructures and the related
  scientific communities
• Forms of activities
• Towards a common long-term strategy foresight
• Towards good practice exchange of personnel and
  visits, standards and quality
• Towards the users training, feedback,
  coordination
• Towards virtual research communities web sites,
  common software, databases, data management
• Towards long-term sustainability activities with
  funders, business plan
• Technical workshops, forum, studies

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Integrating activities Transnational access
and/or service activities

• Provide transnational access to researchers or
  research teams for one or more infrastructures
  among those operated by the participants
• "Hands-on" access
• Remote access provision of reference material,
  sample analysis
• Provide research infrastructures related services
  to the scientific community
• Access to scientific services freely available
  through communication networks, e.g. databases
  available on the web

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Integrating activities Joint research activities

• Explore new fundamental technologies or
  techniques underpinning the efficient and joint
  use of the participating research infrastructures
  
• To improve the services provided by the
  infrastructures (in quality and/or quantity)
• Forms of activities
• Instrumentation / prototype development
• Development of methods, protocols, standards
• Development of software, middleware, algorithms
• Database creation, upgrade, curation
• Development and curation of samples

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An example of Integrating Activity
ASSEMBLE Association of European Marine
Biological Laboratories

• Management (0.6 M)
• Networking (0.4 M)
• Optimizing protocols ensuring inter-operability
• Unified access to resources
• Access (4.4 M)
• 17000 units of access
• Access to 9 infrastructures, 31 installations
  (including 6 remote access services)
• Joint Research (3.3 M) Improving the provision
  of
• whole, multicellular organisms
• cultures of marine protists and cell lines of
  marine animals
• genetic and genomic resources

EC contribution 8.7 M Duration 48
months Start date March 1rst, 2009
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
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Integrating activitiesTopics

• A list of 35 defined topics, focused on strategic
  priorities
• Each topic corresponding to one project
• Both for the follow-up of the Research
  Infrastructure action and for the opening to new
  communities
• More topics published than can be funded to
  ensure competition

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Integrating activities List of topics (1)

• Social sciences and humanities
• INFRA-2010-1.1.1 European Social Survey
• INFRA-2010-1.1.2 Survey of Health, Ageing and
  Retirement in Europe
• INFRA-2010-1.1.3 European Social Science Data
  Archives and remote access to Official Statistics
• INFRA-2010-1.1.4 Archives for Historical
  research
• INFRA-2010-1.1.5 Towards a European Research
  Infrastructure for Modelling Methodologies
• INFRA-2010-1.1.6 Research Infrastructures for
  the study of Europe and globalization

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Integrating activities List of topics (2)

• Life Sciences
• INFRA-2010-1.1.7 Plant genetic Resources Centres
• INFRA-2010-1.1.8 Bio-NMR facilities
• INFRA-2010-1.1.9 Non-human primate centres
• INFRA-2010-1.1.10 Animal genetic Resources
  Centres
• INFRA-2010-1.1.11 Aquaculture research
  facilities
• INFRA-2010-1.1.12 Large-scale bio-banks for
  clinical and epidemiological studies
• INFRA-2010-1.1.13 Facilities for high throughput
  DNA sequencing and human genotyping
• INFRA-2010-1.1.14 High throughput facilities for
  proteome analysis
• INFRA-2010-1.1.15 Good Manufacturing Practices
  (GMP) facilities for advanced gene and cell
  therapy research

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Integrating activities List of topics (3)

• Environmental Sciences
• INFRA-2010-1.1.16 Research Infrastructures for
  Atmospheric Research
• INFRA-2010-1.1.17 Sites and experimental
  platforms for long-term ecosystem research
• INFRA-2010-1.1.18 Research Infrastructures for
  native seed conservation
• INFRA-2010-1.1.19 Research Infrastructures for
  Polar research
• INFRA-2010-1.1.20 Research Infrastructures for
  Coastal Research, including for Integrated
  Coastal Zone Management and Planning
• INFRA-2010-1.1.21 Research Infrastructures for
  water resource observation, water resource
  management, hydrological observation

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Integrating activities List of topics (4)

• Energy
• INFRA-2010-1.1.22 Research Infrastructures for
  Solar Energy Photovoltaic Power
• INFRA-2010-1.1.23 Research Infrastructures for
  offshore renewable energy devices ocean-,
  current-, wave- and wind energy
• INFRA-2010-1.1.24 Infrastructures for research
  on biomass conversion and biorefinery
• Engineering
• INFRA-2010-1.1.25 Research Infrastructures and
  services for engineering and improved production
  processes
• INFRA-2010-1.1.26 Research Infrastructures for
  experimental hydraulic research
• INFRA-2010-1.1.27 Research Infrastructures for
  earthquake hazard
• Mathematics, Computer-related Sciences, Data
• INFRA-2010-1.1.28 Infrastructures for
  Mathematics and its interfaces with science,
  technology and society at large
• INFRA-2010-1.1.29 Advanced Digital Visualisation
  Facilities

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Integrating activities List of topics (5)

• Analytical Facilities
• INFRA-2010-1.1.30 Research Infrastructure for
  advanced spectroscopy, scattering/diffraction and
  imaging of materials
• INFRA-2010-1.1.31 Research Infrastructures for
  processing, analysis and characterisation
  (physico-chemical properties, health and
  environmental impact) of engineered
  nanomaterials, nanoparticles and nanostructures
• Physics, Astronomy, Nuclear- and Particle Physics
• INFRA-2010-1.1.32 Research Infrastructures for
  Nuclear Physics
• INFRA-2010-1.1.33 Detectors for future
  accelerators
• INFRA-2010-1.1.34 Research Infrastructures for
  dark matter search, neutrinos, gravitational
  waves
• INFRA-2010-1.1.35 Research Infrastructures for
  high energy astrophysics

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Preparatory phaseObjectives and activities

• To provide catalytic and leveraging support for
  the preparatory phase of the 10 new projects
  identified in the 2008 ESFRI roadmap and of one
  project in the European strategy for particle
  physics (CERN council)
• Activities legal work, governance, strategic
  work, financial work and, if necessary, technical
  work
• Request up to 6 M per project (eligibility
  criterion)
• Duration 4 years maximum
• At least 3 independent legal entities from 3
  different Member States or Associated Countries
  (eligibility criterion)
• Funding scheme combination of collaborative
  project coordination and support actions
  (CP-CSA)

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Preparatory phase List of topics

• INFRA-2010-2.2.1 EISCAT_3D Upgrade
• INFRA-2010-2.2.2 EPOS
• INFRA-2010-2.2.3 SIAOS
• INFRA-2010-2.2.4 ECCSEL
• INFRA-2010-2.2.5 EMBRC
• INFRA-2010-2.2.6 EU-OPENSCREEN
• INFRA-2010-2.2.7 EuroBioImaging
• INFRA-2010-2.2.8 High Security BLS4
  Laboratory
• INFRA-2010-2.2.9 EMFL
• INFRA-2010-2.2.10 CTA
• INFRA-2010-2.2.11 One project in the European
  strategy for particle physics
  (CERN Council)

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Support to policy development and programme
implementation

• To strengthen the development of a European
  policy for research infrastructures and to
  address specific needs for international
  cooperation in this field
• Two topics
• INFRA-2010-3.1 ERANET supporting cooperation for
  research infrastructures in all ST fields
• INFRA-2010-3.2 Studies, conferences and
  coordination actions supporting policy
  development, including international cooperation
  in all ST fields

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ERANET

• To develop and strengthen the cooperation and
  coordination of national programmes and policy
  actions for research infrastructures
• Activities (1) information exchange, (2)
  definition and preparation of joint activities
  and (3) implementation of joint activities
• Eligible partners are legal entities that finance
  or manage publicly funded national or regional
  programmes (minimum 3 eligible partners
  established in different MS or AC eligibility
  criterion)
• Typically 24 to 36 months, EC contribution from 1
  to 2 M
• Funding scheme coordination and support actions
  coordination action (CSA-CA)

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Studies, conferences and coordination
actionsExpected proposals

• Actions related to the socio-economic impacts of
  research infrastructures
• Work related to the development of the "European
  Portal on Research Infrastructures' Services" to
  enhance its utility as a tool for the scientific
  community, looking for research infrastructure
  services, and for policy makers
• Actions fostering a more balanced territorial
  development and integration of research
  infrastructures within the ERA, with focus on
  governance and management
• Actions supporting international cooperation and
  policy initiatives related to research
  infrastructure projects at global level or with
  specific interest at international level

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Studies, conferences and coordination
actionsRequirements

• At least 3 independent legal entities from 3
  different Member States or Associated Countries
  (eligibility criterion)
• Typically 12 to 24 months, EC contribution from
  0.2 to 1 M
• Funding scheme coordination and support actions
  coordination action or coordination and
  support actions support action (CSA-CA or
  CSA-SA)

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Contact persons

• National Contact Point
• European Commission (name.surname_at_ec.europa.eu)
• General information Agnes.Robin or
  Hugues.Crutzen (call coordinators)
• Life sciences Jean-Emmanuel.Faure or
  Brigitte.Sambain
• Social sciences and humanities Maria.Theofilatou
• Environmental sciences Anna-Maria.Johansson or
  Agnes.Robin
• Energy, Engineering Brigitte.Weiss
• Mathematics, Computer-related sciences, Data
  Lorenza.Saracco
• Analytical facilities Hugues.Crutzen
• Physics Christian.Kurrer
• Impact studies Maria.Douka
• Preparatory phases, International cooperation
  Elena.Righi-Steele
• ERANET, territorial development within ERA
  Christos.Profilis

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FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2(DRAFT - pending the
adoption of the 2010 Work Programme)
The views expressed in this presentation are
those of the author and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the European Commission
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e-Infrastructures for Science
ubiquitous research environments for accessing
and sharing resources and tools
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e-Infrastructures Today
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Call 7 closing date 24.11.09
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Call 7 topics and budget
E-mail for questions related to the call
INFSO-RI-CALLS_at_ec.europa.eu
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Topic objectives
INFRA-2010-1.2.1 Distributed computing
infrastructure (DCI)

• 1.2.1.1 European Grid Initiative (EGI)
• 1.2.1.2 Service deployment
• 1.2.1.3 Middleware and repositories
• 1.2.1.4 Access to DCI platforms
• 1.2.1.5 Extension of DCI platforms
• All DCI proposals are encouraged to consider the
  international dimension, education training and
  standards. Innovation in services and technology
  is encouraged.

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Topic objectives
INFRA-2010-1.2.2 Simulation software and services

• General objectives
• Multi-disciplinary and multi-scale "in silico"
  experimentation and simulation, ensuring the
  ability to fully and timely exploit
  high-performance and distributed computing
  capabilities
• Integrating scientific application software in
  the European e-Infrastructure
• More specifically
• Development, adaptation and maintenance of
  scientific software on dynamically evolving
  hardware platforms
• Deployment of a computational science
  infrastructure through models, tools, algorithms
  and simulation and visualisation techniques
• Promotion of appropriate software standards to
  provide scalability, evolution and interoperation
  in integrated platforms

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Topic objectives
INFRA-2010-1.2.3 Virtual Research Communities

• General objectives
• Enable an increasing number of users from all
  disciplines to access, share and use
  e-Infrastructures
• Remove constraints of distance, access and
  usability, as well as barriers between
  disciplines for a more effective scientific
  collaboration and innovation
• More specifically
• Deployment of e-Infrastructures in research
  communities to enable multi-disciplinary
  collaboration
• Deployment of end-to-end e-infrastructure
  services and tools for integrating and increasing
  research capacities
• Build user-configured virtual research facilities
  and test-beds from collection of diverse
  resources
• Address human, social and economic factors to
  facilitate the creation, take up/maintenance of
  e-Infrastructure services
• Integrate and link regional e-Infrastructures
• Addressing e-Infrastructures for the ESFRI
  projects and
• communities is encouraged
• Incorporating users from academia and industry
  and training
• activities in the use of e-Science are welcome

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Topic objectives
INFRA-2010-2.3.1 First implementation phase of
the European High Performance Computing (HPC)
service PRACE

• General outcomes
• Deploy new ecosystem of computational resources
  to address the needs of advanced science
  engineering build on PRACE and integrate DEISA
  resources and services
• More specifically
• Set up operation of a new organisational
  structure
• Development, adaptation and maintenance of SW
• system SW tools, from operating systems and
  software accelerators to parallelising compilers
• tools, algorithms standards for modelling,
  simulation, visualisation)
• Technology and system evaluations to ensure
  deployment of leading edge technology
• Mechanisms for industry involvement as partners
  (users, vendors, providers)
• Training and sharing of best practices
• Address financial/environmental sustainability

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Topic objectives
INFRA-2010-3.3Coordination actions, conferences
and studies supporting policy development,
includinginternational cooperation, for
e-Infrastructures

• Enhance coordination between national and
  pan-European e-Infrastructure initiatives and
  programmes
• Strengthen the innovation potential and impact of
  e-Infrastructures
• Establish a new scientific software strategy to
  reinforce the global position of Europe in
  scientific software development, deployment and
  use
• Coordinate a European eco-system of scientific
  data repositories for preservation and sharing of
  scientific information
• Specific studies on e-Infrastructure related
  topics
• Dissemination of information on the
  e-Infrastructure programme and projects
• International cooperation, including
• further extension of e-Infrastructures to
  International Cooperation Partner countries
  (ICPC)
• joint roadmaping of activities with developed
  countries
• promotion of the interoperation between similar
  infrastructures on the global scale

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Essential documents

• Work Programme (FP7 Capacities, Research
  Infrastructures, 2010)
• Detailed information on objectives, actions and
  budgets
• List of topics (targeted approach)
• Deadline, eligibility conditions, evaluation
  procedures, particular requirements, links to
  necessary documents
• Guides for applicants
• Practical information on how to apply (electronic
  submission of proposals only)
• Specific to a call and a funding scheme
• Instructions for completing part A (forms) and
  drafting part B (text) of the proposal
• Call fiche

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Further information

• FP7 and Research Infrastructures
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/research-in
  frastructures_en.html
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/h
  ome_en.html
• Leaflet on call FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2
• ftp//ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/e-infr
  astructure/e-infrastructures-in-fp7-call7_en.pdf
• Web page of call FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2
  information day held on 18.06.09
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/e
  vents-20090618_en.html