Support for Research Infrastructures in the EU Framework Programme for Research Elena Righi European

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Support for Research Infrastructures in the EU
Framework Programme for Research Elena
RighiEuropean CommissionRADIONET, Volterra,
20-21 April 2006
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1952 ECSC treaty first projects started March
19551957 EURATOM treaty Joint Research Centre
set up1983 ESPRIT programme1984 First
Framework Programme (1984-1987)1987 European
Single Act - science becomes a Community
responsibility Second Framework Programme
(1987-1991)1990 Third Framework Programme
(1990-1994)1993 Treaty on European Union (EU)
role of RTD in the EU enlarged1994 Fourth
Framework Programme (1994-1998)1998 Fifth
Framework Programme (1998-2002)2000 European
Research Area2002 Sixth Framework Programme
(2002-2006)2005 Proposal for the Seventh
Framework Programme (2007-2013)
EU Framework Programme for Research
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Activities in FP6 for RI
For existing research infrastructures Transnationa
l Access Integrating Activities e-infrastructures
For new research infrastructures Design
studies Construction (incl. major upgrades)
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Research Infrastructures in FP6 budget 720
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Funding by area
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Seventh Framework Programme ( 2007-2013)

• 6 April 2005 FP7 Commissions proposal
• 21 Sept 2005 Specific Programme proposals
• ? Now debated by Member States (Council ) and
  European Parliament
• June-Sept 2006 ? Adoption
• November 2006 ? First calls for proposals

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FP7 2007 2013 Specific Programmes

1. Cooperation ? Collaborative trans-national
research activities
2. Ideas ? Basic research implemented through
a European Research Council (ERC)
3. People ? Marie Curie actions and other
initiatives

• Capacities ? Research infrastructures, regions
  of
• knowledge, science and society, international
  cooperation,

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Existing research infrastructures in FP7

• Objective To optimise their use, development and
  integration
• - Integrating Activities to promote the
  coherent use and development of research
  infrastructures in a given field. Integrating
  Activities will combine networking activities,
  joint research activities and transnational
  access activities
• - ICT based e-infrastructures to foster
  development of high-capacity and high-performance
  communication (GÉANT) and grid infrastructures
  and reinforcing European computing capabilities
• Implementation bottom-up calls for proposals
  open to all fields of
• science targeted calls in close cooperation
  thematic areas in FP7

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New research infrastructures in FP7

• Objective To help create new research
  infrastructures of pan-European interest (or
  major upgrades of existing ones)
• - Design studies to support feasibility studies
  for new infrastructures through a bottom-up
  approach of calls for proposals
• - Construction of new infrastructures (incl.
  major upgrades) to promote the creation of new
  infrastructures through a strategic approach
  based on the work conducted by ESFRI on the
  development of a European roadmap fro new
  research infrastructures

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New research infrastructures in FP7

• Construction via a two-stage process
• The preparatory phase
• - restricted calls targeting priority projects
  (based on the work of ESFRI)
• ? to support finalisation of construction plans,
  legal organisation, financial engineering,
  management aspects
• The construction phase
• developed following the satisfactory
  implementation of the preparatory phase
• case by case approach (e.g. use of Article 171)

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What is ESFRI?

• European Strategy Forum on Research
  Infrastructures (ESFRI)
• Launched in April 2002
• Brings together representatives of the 25 EU
  Member States and 7 Associated States, appointed
  by Research Ministers, and one representative of
  the European Commission (EC)

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ESFRIs role and ambitions

• To jointly reflect on the development of
  strategic policies for pan-European Research
  Infrastructures
• To prepare a European Roadmap (with regular
  updates as different areas mature)
• To act as an incubator for RI projects with
  pan-European interest but it is not a decision
  making body

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Objectives of European Roadmap

• Identification of new research infrastructures or
  major upgrades which correspond to the needs of
  European research communities
• Tool for decision makers, preventing
  over-provision of facilities in particular areas
• Providing a focus for long term budgetary
  planning by funding actors

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ESFRI Roadmap Procedure
(simplified version)
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ESFRI Roadmap Procedure (continued)
(simplified version)
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The European Roadmap for RI
INAF Roadmap
Italy Roadmap
ESFRI (Italian Delegate Carlo Rizzuto)
European Roadmap
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Timetable (pre-ESFRI phase)
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Timetable (ESFRI phase 1)
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ESFRI validation phase

• From early July to early September 2006,
• the ESFRI delegates should ensure that a process
  of political validation at the level of their
  respective Member states is carried out
• and in particular highlighting possible
• Projects supported and/or
• Projects not really supported by any State
• Missing projects to be (re)considered in the
  next phase

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Timetable (ESFRI phase 2)
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Useful links

• Research Infrastructures on CORDIS
• ? http//www.cordis.lu/infrastructures/
• ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research
  Unfrastructures)
• ? http//www.cordis.lu/esfri/