Research Infrastructures and their structural dimension within the European Research Area FINANTIAL

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Research Infrastructures and their structural
dimension within the European Research Area
FINANTIAL ENGINEERING.THE NEEDED NATIONAL
SUPPORT

• Carmen Andrade GENERAL DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY
  POLICYMINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND
  SCIENCESPAINBrdo- Slovenia- March 2008

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REQUIREMENTS FOR HOSTING A RI

• Aspects to be taken into account
• Comitment of national Governement
• Interest of partnership by other countries
• Availability of funds
• Human resources
• Excellence in the science community
• Increase in critical mass and competitivity
• Social Cohesion

Concentration versus distribution



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EXAMPLE OF THE SPANISH MAP OF MEDIUM SIZE
INFRASTRUCTURES

• There is a gap in Spain between the social and
  economical advances and the research investments
• We need to make a significant increase in funds
  to shorten the distance
• There is a non homogeneous distribution of
  scientific resources in the country
• We need to balance concentration of research
  investments in places with critical mass to that
  in undevelopped places

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EXAMPLE OF THE SPANISH MAP OF MEDIUM SIZE
INFRASTRUCTURES

• A MAP of around 50 Medium size RI have been
  planned in collaboration to the 17 Autonomous
  Regions
• 25 are new
• 25 are existing ones that will be enlarged and
  upgraded
• Total investment in around 10 years is 1B
• The MAP was approved in January 2007

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Spanish RoadmapElaboration process
Ministry of Education and Science Dialogue with
ALL Regional Governments funds(50-50)
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ICTS Roadmap

• PAÍS VASCO
• Fuente de Espalación
• Unidad de Imagen Molecular

MINISTERIO DE EDUCACIÓN Y CIENCIA

• NAVARRA
• Instalación de Imagen Médica y Diagnóstica
• Instalación de Inv. en Biocumbustibles
• CENER

• ASTURIAS
• Plataforma de Oceanografía

• CANTABRIA
• Gran Tanque de Ingeniería Marítima

• ARAGÓN
• Instalación Microscopias Avanzadas
• Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc
• Nodo Supercomputador

• GALICIA
• Unidad Oceanográfica
• Supercomputador Finis Terrae
• BIO Cornide de Saavedra
• BIO Sarmiento de Gamboa

• CATALUÑA
• Instalación de Biología Estructural y Proteómica,
  
• Plataforma Mouse Clinic
• Sala Blanca del CNM
• Laboratorio de RMN
• CESCA
• BSC- Mare Nostrum 2
• Canal CIEM
• CIMNE
• Sincrotron ALBA

• CASTILLA Y LEÓN
• Instalación de Láseres
• CENIEH

• MADRID
• Instalación Singular de Fusión
• Instalación de Tratamiento de Imagen Médica
• Fusión TJ-II
• Instalación de alta seguridad del CISA
• Instalaciones de ingeniería civil del CEDEX
• Central de Tecnología del ISOM
• Red IRIS (1)
• CEHIPAR
• Microscopía Avanzada
• Nodo Supercomputador

• BALEARES
• Plataforma Tecnológica Litoral

• VALENCIA
• Instalación de Física Médica
• Instalación ensayo Motores

• CASTILLA LA MANCHA
• Instalación de Tecnologías del Hidrógeno y Pilas
  de Combustible
• Centro Astronómico de Yebes

• MURCIA
• Instalación Oceanográfica y de Acuicultura
• Plataforma de Investigación en Recursos Hídricos
• BIO Hespérides

• EXTREMADURA
• Instalación Grids

• ANDALUCÍA
• Instalación Energías Renovables
• Instalación de Datos y Servicios para las
  Ciencias Sociales
• Centro Astronómico de Calar Alto
• Plataforma Solar de Almería
• IRAM
• Reserva Científica de Doñana
• Nodo Supercomputador
• Centro Nacional Aceleradores

• CANARIAS
• Plataforma de Observación Oceánica
• Observatorio del Teide
• Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos
• GranTeCan
• Nodo Supercomputador

NEW ICTS EXISTING UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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ICTS
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ALL THE SPANISH RI

• Will have a Governing Board 50

representation of AA CC and Universities
Representation of Central Government and Research
Centers
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RI TO BE BUILT BY MEANS OF ASPECIAL FUND

• Use of a fund consisting of a
• Zero Interest rate Loan
• Which can be given back in a flexible manner from
  the year 2 5 to the year 10-20
• The loan is shared by each Consortium composed
  50 by each government

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NEED TO MATCH NATIONAL INTERESTS TO ESFRI ROADMAP
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A JOINT PROPOSAL TO ESFRI FROM SPANISH CENTRAL
AND REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS Solar platform of
Almeria Eolic Reaserch Facility in Navarra
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The Bilbao Site for ESSExcellent conditions for
requirements and site specifications
In the environment of the future ESS, the Spanish
Innovation System already brings together a large
group of scientific-technological agents
employing 12,500 people engaged in RD, including
7,820 researchers
Through the Spanish National Fund, ESS-BILBAO
could, if necessary, have enough funds to finance
construction on its own !
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Spanish Neutron Scatterers community
large number of top scientists who use neutron
techniques in their respective research
distributed in more than 50 research groups that
represent more than
240 neutron scientists !!
Neutron Scatterers
More than 2000 papers
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Maturity in neutron instrumentation
MARI _at_ ISIS
D1B detector _at_ILL
OSIRIS secondary spectrometer _at_ ISIS
IN8 Primary spectrometer _at_ILL
Promotion of collaboration projects relating to
the development of instrumentation, and
scientific and technical exchanges
LET Spectrometer _at_ISIS
IN8 Monochromator _at_ILL
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COMPETING AND COLLABORATINGAN EXAMPLE FOR OTHER
ESFRI RI

• Memorandum of Understanding of Spain and Hungary
  from October 2007
• Joint elaboration of costing, economical impact,
  scientific Direction, etc
• Sweden has been invited to join this MoU

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AN EXAMPLE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF LOCAL
AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS
Scientific International Board
MoU Spain-Hungary
Spanish Consortium Basque and Central Government
Hungarian Government and local Authorities
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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTIONCarmen Andrade
GENERAL DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY POLICYMINISTRY
OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCESPAIN