RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES in FP7 EURONS 3rd PCC Meeting 67 April 2006 Christian Kurrer, EC, DG Resear

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RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES in FP7EURONS 3rd PCC
Meeting 6-7 April 2006 Christian Kurrer, EC,
DG Research
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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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2. Ideas programme

• Support to cutting-edge research carried out by
  individual research teams competing at European
  level
• Implemented independently of the rest of the
  Framework Programme by an autonomous European
  Research Council (ERC)

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4. Capacities programme

• Support the optimum use and the development of
  Research infrastructures,
• Strengthen the research potential of European
  regions,
• Develop the research potential in the EUs
  convergence regions,
• Science and Society issues,
• International cooperation,
• Support to SMEs,

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Research Infrastructures in FP7

• Term refers to facilities, resources or
  services that are needed by the research
  community to conduct research in all scientific
  and technological fields
• Definition covers major equipments, knowledge
  based resources (collections, archives, ),
  enabling ICT-based infrastructures (Géant, Grids,
  ..) and any other entity of a unique nature used
  for research

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Research Infrastructures in FP7

• Objectives
• To optimise the use, development and integration
  of the best research infrastructures existing in
  Europe
• To help create new research infrastructures of
  pan- European interest (or major upgrades of
  existing ones)

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Activities in FP7

• For existing research infrastructures
• - Integrating Activities
• - Transnational Access
• - ICT based e-infrastructures
• For new research infrastructures (incl. major
  upgrades)
• - Design Studies
• - Construction of New Infrastructures

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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
• - Transnational Access to support new
  opportunities for research teams to obtain access
  to the best research infrastructures
• - 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
  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
• ESFRI European Strategy Forum for 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

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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/