Information session on Research Infrastructures · October 27, 2006. Welcome Robert-Jan SMITS,...

Information sessionon Research Infrastructures

October 27, 2006

Welcome

Robert-Jan SMITS, Director DG RTD Ulf DAHLSTEN, Director DG INFSO

FP7 2007 - 2013

Capacities4097

JRC1751

Ideas7510

Euratom4062

People4750

Cooperation32413

FP7 budget (M€) Source: revised FP7 agreed by Council +

Parliament in October 2006

FP7: What will be new ?

Evolution, not revolutionIncrease in duration and budgetNew Structure: 4 Specific Programmes European Research CouncilJoint Technology InitiativesNew infrastructures and RSFFSimplification & externalisation of management

Research Infrastructures in FP7

Hervé PéroEuropean Commission

Research DGHead of Unit – Research Infrastructures

Specific ProgrammeCapacities

Dev. of policies1,5% - 70 M€

INCO4,5% - 180 M€

Science in Society8% - 330 M€

Research Infrastructures42% - 1715 M€

SMEs33% - 1336 M€ Research Potential

8% - 340 M€

Regions of Knowledge

3% - 126 M€

Definition of Research

Infrastructures

Facilities, resources, and related services usedby the scientific community for

Conducting leading-edge researchKnowledge transmission, knowledge exchangesand knowledge preservation

IncludesMajor scientific equipmentScientific collections, archives and structured informationICT-based infrastructuresEntities of a unique nature, used for research

Considering the increased relations between scientists,

experiments, data and e-science…

MIDDLEWARE

Experiment

Experiment

Computing

Computing

Computing

Storage

Storage

Storage

Analysis

Analysis

Scientist

… Research Infrastructures are at the core of the

knowledge Triangle

ResearchResearch EducationEducation

InnovationInnovation

Researchinfrastructures

A continuous increase of budget over successive FPs

100

0

50

150

200

300

LIP (FP2)

HCM (FP3)

TMR (FP4)

IHP (FP5)

FP6

New InfrastructuresIntegrated InitiativesNetworks / CARTD ProjectsAccess

eRI

eRI

FP7

eRI

+ 30%M€ / year

Some information on Research Infrastructures in FP6

Facts and Figures:

Total budget: 735 M€of which 222 for GRID + GEANT

Number of projects 143Number of RIs supported 248Expected number of users >20000(2004-2010)

Objectives of the CommunityResearch Infrastructures action

Optimising the use and development of the best existing research infrastructures in EuropeHelping to create in all fields of S & T new research infrastructures of pan-European interest needed by the European scientific communitySupporting programme implementation and policy development (e.g. international cooperation)

FP7 will continue supporting existing Research Infrastructures

Integrating Activities to promote the coherent use and development of research infrastructures in a given field, implemented through:

A bottom-up approach for proposals open to all fields of scienceTargeted approach with topics defined in cooperation with the FP7 thematic areas

ICT based e-infrastructures in support of scientific research

FP7 will also increase support to new research infrastructures

Design studies: to support the conceptual design for new facilities or major upgrades, of clear European dimension and interest

through bottom-up calls

Support to the Construction of new infrastructures and major upgrades to existing ones

the list of projects to be supported will be based on the work conducted by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI roadmap)

Existing Infrastructures

Design studies

New Infrastructures

Construction (preparatory phase; construction phase)

Integrating activities

e-infrastructures ESFRI

Roadmap

FP7 Research Infrastructures in brief

Policy Development and Programme Implementation

Planning of calls and indicative budget

Total operational budget 1630 M€

Call 12007

Call 22008

Call 32010

Call 42012

x x

x

Construction – Support to the Implementation Phase RSFF (200 M€) + 100 M€

x

x

x

x

x

Integrating activities 275

e-Infrastructures 89 115

Design studies 35

Construction – Support to the Preparatory Phase 135

Policy Development and Programme Implementation 25 5

Total per call (M€) 284 395

… in summary, an improved FP7 action for Research Infrastructures

An increased budget for FP7 (+30%)Better consistency within FP7 (targeted calls)Tackling better fragmentation (Integrating Activities) Catalysing effect towards the construction or major upgrade of Research InfrastructuresA vision for the next 10-20 years fostering capacity building and excellence

Useful links

FP7 Proposal and Capacities Specific Programme http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities.htm

Research Infrastructures on CORDIS (FP6) http://cordis.europa.eu/infrastructures/http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/rn/

ESFRI (Eur. Strategy Forum for Research Infrastr.) http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/home.html

e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG)http://www.e-irg.org

Research Infrastructures in Europa (on-line soon)http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures

Support to existing infrastructures

Jean-Emmanuel Faure European Commission

Research DGResearch Infrastructures


Design studies

New Infrastructures




Roadmap



Integrating Activities and e-infrastructures

To optimise the use and development of existing research infrastructures

Based on the continuation of the successful FP6 instrument “Integrated Infrastructure Initiative”(I3s)

Within one single contract: Networking activitiesTransnational access and/or service activitiesJoint research activities

Networking Activities

To foster a culture of co-operation between the participants and the scientific communities benefiting from the research infrastructures

Forms of activities:Towards the users: training, studies, feedback, coordination…Towards good practice: exchange of personnel and visits, standards and quality…Towards virtual infrastructures: Web-sites, common softwares, databases, data management…Technical workshops, forums, working groups and studies…

Trans-national Access and/or Service activities

Provide trans-national access to researchers or research teams to one or more infrastructures among those operated by the participants

"Hands on" accessRemote access: sending of samples, sample analysis…

Managed by the contractors

Provide research infrastructures related servicesto the scientific communityRemote access to distributed infrastructuresServices provided through electronic means ; Data and resources managementUpgrading communication infrastructureSupport of Grid infrastructure; support of middlewarecomponent repositories

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:Prototype development Development of methods, protocols, standards…Development of software, middleware, algorithm; Database creation, upgrade, curation…Development and curation of samples

Integrating Activities

Objectives of an Integrating Activity project

Structure better and integrate, on a European scale, the way research infrastructures operate and develop, in a given class:

By opening and optimising the access to and the use of the existing research infrastructures in the different Member States and Associated States

By better structuring and integrating, on a European scale, the operation(s) of research infrastructures, and by fostering their joint development (qualitative and quantitative)

Participation

At least 3 independent legal entities established in 3 different Member States or Associated States. At least 1 of these legal entities must operate a research infrastructure providing access

Operators of research infrastructures, universities and other public research organisations as well as industry, for example equipment manufacturers

Developing a pan-European research infrastructure for the measurements of atmospheric propertiesEC contribution: 5.1 M€

TA (~0.2 M€):11 ground-based stations for atmospheric research

NA (~3.2 M€):• Standards and exchange of good practices on

sampling, measurement and analysis of aerosol parameters

• Training on aerosol sampling and measurements• Web portal and Database on aerosol products

JRA (1.7 M€):• Methodology for determining aerosol optical density• Standard procedures for aerosol hygroscopic growth

determination• A real time data collection of aerosol measurements

A network of research stations exploiting the diversity of regional backgrounds

EUSAAR (Environment)

Refinement, Reduction, Replacement

EC contribution: ~4.7 M€

TA (~1.3 M€):• Gene, tissue, cell, gamete and serum banks• Experimental animals

NA (~1.7 M€):• Standards (SOPs for quarantine and experiments)• Training on handling (blood sampling, injections…)• Courses and textbook (primate behaviour,

husbandry, nutrition…)

JRA (~1.7 M€):• Molecular typing methods• Pathogen detection assays • Telemetry prototyping

Developing a pan-European researchinfrastructure of primate centres

EUPRIM-Net (Biomedical Sciences)

TA (~19 M€):• 15 installations, with 4000 users from a very broad

spectrum of disciplines

NA (~2 M€):• Specialized workshops, conferences and schools

(support areas of transnational cooperation)• Exchange of scientists

JRA (~6 M€):• European platform for Protein Crystallography• Development of:

• Instrumentation for Femtosecond Pulses• Diffractive x-ray optics• Superconducting Undulator• Photoinjector for X-ray Free Electron Lasers

EC contribution: 27 M€

Developing a pan-European Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser research infrastructure

IA-SFS (Analytical Facilities)

Offering a common access platform and triggering coherent future developments

Main characteristics of an average Integrating

Activity under FP6

Average number of contractors: 19 of which 7 are offering access

Typical duration of 4 years

Average EC contribution: ~10 M€Management: ~ 6%Networking Activities: ~ 15% Trans-national Access: ~ 36% Joint Research Activities: ~ 43%

List of funded projects (FP6) http://cordis.europa.eu/infrastructures/projects.htm

Implementation of the Integrating Activities under FP7

Bottom up approach for proposals in all fields of science (successful in FP6, to be continued in FP7)

Targeted approach for clearly defined infrastructure needs for Europe, coordinated with the thematic priorities (new)

FP7 Call N°2 (closing March 2008)

Targeted approach

Brigitte WeissEuropean Commission


What is the targeted approach?

For existing Research Infrastructures

A list of topics for classes of infrastructures to be supported, listed in the work programme

Topics defined in line with the Cooperation Programme

Revisions of topics: list can be amended A sufficient basis of RI’s to be networked

Complementary to other FP7 funding schemes used in the thematic priorities (Collaborative Projects, NoE’s)

Why a targeted approach?

To help integrating research infrastructures for European R&D needs, defined in a priority setting process

To create synergies and ensure consistency with the Cooperation Programme

Topics are in line with R&D topics under the Cooperation Programme

To stimulate RI actions in specific fields that are currently not well covered under our actions

How will it work?

Bottom up and targeted approaches will be under the same calls

Same Project type for both approaches:Integrating activities: I3s with Transnational Access/Service, Networking, Joint Research activities

Same evaluation procedures (by independent experts), criteria, forms…

Possible topics for RI’s under the targeted approach

About 30 priority topics for RI’s in 8 of the “Cooperation” thematic areas

Health (6)Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology (3)Information and Communication Technologies (3)Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies and Materials (2)Energy (5)Environment (3)Transport (2)Socioeconomic Sciences and Humanities (3)

Synergies that can be expected: one Example

Priority topic for RI:To bring together existing research infrastructures for servicing research on Smart Energy networks

Link with the Cooperation programme:Smart Energy networks, Activity Energy 2007.7 .1 – 7.3

Typical existing RI relevant to the topic:ISET Test and certification Centre, D; CEA/CENEC/LSEC Labs for storage technologies, FR; KEMA High Power and High Voltage Laboratories, NL…

Call for proposals N°2 – closing early 2008

For both bottom up and targeted approachIndicative budget of 275 M€

25 to 30 projects to be selected

Closure: March 2008Single stage procedure for evaluation

remote + panel evaluation

Results within 4 months after closure dateFirst contracts will come into force before the end of 2008

ICT based e-Infrastructures

Kyriakos BaxevanidisEuropean Commission

Infso DGDeputy Head of Unit –

Research Infrastructures


Design studies

New Infrastructures



ESFRIRoadmap


e-infrastructures


Objectives

Promote an ICT-based environment, in which all researchers have an easy-to-use controlled access to unique or distributed scientific facilities, regardless of their type and location in the world

Strengthen collaboration between research centres and their researchers in virtual research communities, enabling worldwide sustainable partnerships in all e-Science fields

Infrastructure layer more transparent and adequately serving cross-disciplinary needs

Main orientations

Support the further evolution and deployment of grid and networking infrastructures

Support emergence of new organisational models for service provisioning in the domain of grid and data infrastructures

Foster adoption of e-Infrastructures by user communities

Support resource sharing policy initiatives (e-IRG…)

Promote international cooperation

Foster creation of a new generation of HPC facilities in Europe

(petaflop scale)

Procurement mechanism

Promote a coordinated and federated approach in the

deployment of data infrastructures

FP7FP5

GÉANT

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

FP6

GÉANT2

Grid infrastructures

Supercomputer grid

New users

… upgrade

… upgrade

… reinforce

Repositories

Org, policy, intern

Data infrastructure

… upgrade

An evolutionary path

Call for proposalsN°1 – launched early 2007

Topics:1. Scientific Digital Repositories (€15m)2. Deployment of e-Infrastructures for new

Scientific Communities (€24m)3. e-Science Grid Infrastructures (€50m)




•Support deployment of digital repositories for scientific communities by pooling existing resources at European level and supporting data storage, archiving, access, interpretation, interoperability, management & curation activities

•Enable scientists to effectively aggregate and combine information to generate and share knowledge, profiting from a transparent underlying data infrastructure across communities, institutions & geographic boundaries



Scientific Communities (€24m)3. e-Science Grid Infrastructures (€50m)•Reinforce impact, adoption and global relevance of e-

Infrastructure across various areas of science & engineering; •Support continuous consolidation & expansion of e-Infrastr.•Provide advanced applications and capabilities to more researchers, capturing commonalities, fostering interoperability, promoting open standards and federating approaches across disciplines




•Support the further evolution and deployment of grid infrastructures and foster the pooling of more resources (across multiple scientific disciplines) in the grid

•Emphasize on provision of persistent, cross-disciplinary services with increased levels of interoperability, trust and security

Call for proposalsN°2 – launched end 2007

Topics:1. GÉANT (€95m)2. Scientific Data Infrastructures (€20m)


Topics:1. GÉANT (€95m)2. Scientific Data Infrastructures (€20m)•Support the further development and evolution of GÉANT in close articulation with the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)

•Reinforce the provision of end-to-end connectivity and services (user-to-user)

•GÉANT to represent an instantiation of the “Internet of the future” by making timely use of state-of-the-art communication technologies


Topics:1. GÉANT (€95m)2. Scientific Data Infrastructures (€20m)

•Support the deployment of standardised mechanisms to store, archive, authenticate, access, transfer, preserve, curate, certify, interpret scientific data

•Provide an integrated set of services exploiting the middleware and grid capabilities to federate data in an ecosystem of digital resources

•Support the deployment of a broad European multidisciplinary scientific data infrastructure able to be easily federated with knowledge infrastructures in other parts of the world

Pan-European Research Network

Access to 12 000 km of dark fiber/ unlimited capacity

IPv6 enabled

400+ active elements

Hybrid Network: Photonics + IP

3700 institutes

Global dimension

GÉANT (network)

GÉANT (global dimension)

GÉANT

SPONGE SEERENALICEEUMEDCONNECT TEIN2

North America/Japan

S. Africa IndiaChina Australia

~ 500 sites in 40 countries> 60 Virtual Organisations~ 24 000 CPUs > 5 PB storage> 10 000 concurrent jobs/day

Scientific communitiesHigh Energy Physics BiomedicsAstrophysics Earth Sciences Computational Chemistry Finance Fusion GeophysicsLife Sciences Multimedia…

EGEE (grids)

LINUX Power-PCLINUX Power-PC

LINUX SGILINUX SGIAIX IBM domainAIX IBM domain

High Performance Common Global File

System

High Performance Common Global File

System

SARA (NL) LRZ (DE)

CINECA (IT) FZJ (DE)

ECMWF (UK)

IDRIS (FR)RZG (DE)

BSC (ES)CSC (FI)

21.900 processors and 145 TF in 2006, more than 190 TF in 2007

DEISA cluster of supercomputers (grids)

Design Studies and Construction of new

Research Infrastructures

Hervé PéroEuropean Commission

Research DGHead of Unit – Research Infrastructures


Design studies

New Infrastructures




Roadmap



FP7 will support the design of new research infrastructures

(or major upgrades)

Design studies aiming at the conceptual design for new infrastructures with clear European dimension and interest, not at a detailed designCase of e-Infrastructures: to foster new organisational models in domains of grids & dataEC support likely to be smaller than under FP6, i.e. less than 5 M€bottom-up call…Useful to feed the ESFRI roadmap process

FP7 will support the construction of new Infrastructures

(or major upgrades)

The list of projects to be supported will be based on the work conducted by ESFRI

A two-stage process:The preparatory phase: to check the commitment of

the Member States and reach a (draft) agreementbetween Member States and stakeholders for the construction

The implementation phase: the actual construction

The Preparatory phase

Tasks focusing on:Strategy developmentTechnical work (e.g. final prototypes)Governance and logistical work Financial arrangementsLegal issues

The first call will be restricted to the projects identified in the 2006 ESFRI roadmap

Direct EC (average) contribution around 5 M€

Participation to the Preparatory phase

Project consortia should involve, as appropriate :

Public authorities or funding agencies at national and/or regional levelResearch and development agenciesOperators of research facilitiesResearch centres, universities, industry

The European Commission may act as a “facilitator”

The Implementation phase

Direct Community financial support will be very limited

The European Commission may again act as a “facilitator”

The challenge: an increased use of financial engineering

Financial engineering for new research infrastructures

Inclusion in Specific RTD

Programme(s)

Inclusion in FEDER

RELEX strategicplans

Stakeholdersincl. EIROs

Member states European Commission

Inclusion in national

Programmes

Projects

EIBRSFF

Risk-Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF)

An innovative financing instrument, developed jointly by the EIB and the Commission to:

Foster increased investment in research by improving access to EIB finance, thus helping overcome market deficiencyGenerate a leveraging effect so that the volume of extra lending is expected to be a multiple 4 to 6 of the Community and EIB funds allocated to the instrument

Risk-sharing with EIB to allow:Larger volume of risky lending for researchFinancing of riskier, but creditworthy research activities

Call for proposals N°1 – closing in spring 2007

For design studies and preparatory phaseIndicative budget for design studies: 35 M€

7 to 10 projects to be selected

Indicative budget for preparatory phase: 135 M€34 projects

Closure: April 2007Single stage procedure for evaluation

remote + panel evaluation, with possible hearings

Results within 4 months after closure dateFirst contracts will come into force before the end of 2007

Support to policy development and

programme implementation

Daniel PasiniEuropean Commission



Design studies

New Infrastructures




Roadmap



Policy development and Programme implementation

1. ERA-NETs for research infrastructures

2. Studies, conferences and coordination actions for policy development, including international cooperation

3. Coordination actions to support emerging needs

4. Network of National Contact Points (NCP)

5. Other Support actions, as appropriate

Calls 1, 2, 3, 4

To step up the cooperation and coordination of national and/or regional programmes/activitiestowards their mutual opening and implementation of joint activities

To contribute to the development of the European Research Area by improving coherence across Europe of such programmes/activities

1. ERA-NET for Research Infrastructures

1. ERA-NET for Research Infrastructures

Participants: Public authorities and agencies responsible for financing or managing research infrastructure programmes at national or regional level (e.g. ministries, research councils or funding agencies)

Activities may include:Information exchangeDefinition and preparation of joint activitiesImplementation of joint activitiesFunding of joint transnational activities

ERA-NET may be specific to a type of research infrastructures or more generic

2. Studies/conferences/coordination actions

for policy development

To support the work of ESFRI and e-IRG

To promote international cooperation

3. Coordination actions to support emerging needs

For research infrastructures in areas where a culture of cooperation is less developed

Support for Networking activities such as:Development of common standards, Protocols and interoperabilityBenchmarkingForesight studies for new instrumentation, methods, concepts and/or technologies

4. Trans-national co-operation among NCPs

To reinforce the network of National Contact Points (NCPs)

improving the services provided to potential applicants

facilitating access to FP7 calls

helping to raise the quality of submitted proposals

Call for proposals N°1 – closing in spring 2007

For:ERA-NETsStudies, conferences, coordination actions for policy development (e-infrastructures)NCPs and other Support actions, as appropriate

Indicative budget of 25 M€15 to 20 projects to be selected

Closure: April 2007Single stage procedure for evaluation


First contracts will come into force before the end of 2007

For:Studies, conferences, coordination actions for policy development (not for e-infrastructures)Coordination actions to support emerging needs

Indicative budget of 5 M€Around 5 projects to be selected

Closure: March 2008Single stage procedure for evaluation


First contracts will come into force before the end of 2007

Call for proposals N°2 – closing early 2008

Funding schemes and evaluation criteria


Design studies

New Infrastructures



e-infrastructures

Funding schemes


A combination of Collaborative projects and Coordination and support actions (I3s)


Design studies

New Infrastructures



e-infrastructures

Funding schemes


Collaborative projects or Coordination and support actions (whenever appropriate)


Design studies

New Infrastructures



e-infrastructures

Funding schemes


Coordination and support actions

Evaluation criteria

S&T quality: excellence of the overall project and of the specific activities

Impact: contribution of the project at the European level

Implementation: management, partnership, implementation plan and allocation of resources

Evaluation by independent experts

An overview of the first two calls

Call 1closing

April 2007

Call 2closing

March 2008

Integrating activities (Bottom-up and targeted) 275 M€- Scientific Digital Repositories- Deployment of e-Infrastructures- e-Science Grid infrastructures

89 M€E-Infrastructures

Policy Development and Programme Implementation - Studies, conferences …

(other than for e-infra.)- Coordination actions to support emerging needs

5 M€

- GÉANT- Scientific Data Infrastructures 115 M€

Design studies 35 M€Construction – Support to the Preparatory Phase

135 M€

- ERA-NETs- Studies, conferences…

(for e-infrastructures)- NCPs and other support actions

25 M€

Final Discussion

Ulf DAHLSTEN, Director DG INFSO Robert-Jan SMITS, Director DG RTD

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