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Lorenza Saracco, DG RTD-B ERA: Research Programmes and Capacity
Research Infrastructures Unit
Research Infrastructures under FP7 and
opportunities for marine sciences
Research Infrastructures under FP7 and
opportunities for marine sciences
ERA building blocks
Well-coordinated research programmes and priorities (joint programming)
Effective sharing of knowledge
Opening to the world through international cooperation in S&T
World-class research infrastructures
Single labour market for researchers
European Research
Area
Excellent research institutions and universities
Importance of Research Infrastructures for Europe
At the core of the Research, Innovation, Education triangle
Extending the frontiers of knowledge Supporting industrial innovation Exchanging and transmitting knowledge Training the next generation of top researchers
For their construction and operation: A European market of 9 billion Euro per year, with an annual growth of 5.5%
Objectives of the CommunityResearch Infrastructures
actions
Optimising the use and balanced development of the best existing research infrastructures in Europe
Helping to create in all fields of S & T new research infrastructures of pan-European interest needed by the European scientific community
Supporting programme implementation and policy development (e.g. international cooperation)
Facilities, resources, and related services usedby the scientific community for Conducting leading-edge research Knowledge transmission, knowledge exchanges
and knowledge preservation
Includes Major scientific equipment Scientific collections, archives and structured
information ICT-based infrastructures Entities of a unique nature, used for research
Definition of Research Infrastructures
Research Infrastructures’
pattern is rapidly evolving in Europe
Share of RIs Built or Upgraded between 2001 and 2006
3,3
18,8
19,1
35,3
9,0
16,7
18,8
30,0
34,9
36,7
34,4
36,2
23,5
51,3
45,1
44,7
36,7
34,9
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Energy
Humanities
Engineering
Social Sciences
Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
Environmental, Marine, Earth Sciences
Material Sciences
Computer and data treatment
Biomedical and Life Sciences
% RIs
built within these 5 years
built before 2000 but upgraded since then
• From Globally unique to regionally distributed;
• Many stakeholders (from ministries to researchers)
• Underlying and growing use of e-infrastructures;• Opportunities but difficulties of interaction
between basic research and industry…• Lack of funding (public and private); • Single countries do not have the critical mass or
dimension; need to cooperate…
Europe is faced with a wide spectrum of research infrastructure
issues
RI policy at EU level has no other choice than
continuing reinforcing coordination
• At EU level, • At national and regional,• At “variable geometry”,• At global level…
This explains the importantrole of ESFRI and others…
ESFRI European Strategy Forum
on Research Infrastructures
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
Example: 7 pan-European projects identified to serve environmental Sciences in the 2006 ESFRI roadmap
AURORA BOREALIS
EURO-ARGOLIFEWATCHEMSO
IAGOS-ERI
Rep
ort
2006
European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures March 2009
Few more projects identified in the 2008 roadmap update, for example…
EPOSSIAEOS
EISCAT – 3D
Rep
ort
2008
European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures March 2009
EMBRC
FP7 Research Infrastructures actions
Existing Infrastructures
Design studies
New Infrastructures
Construction (preparatory phase; construction phase)
Integrating activities
e-infrastructures
ESFRIRoadmap
Policy Development / Programme Implementation
Preparatory phase projectsfor the Construction of New (or major Upgrade) of Pan European Research Infrastructures
• To provide a framework facilitating decision-making between partners from different countries
• Work targeted at resolving bottlenecks and addressing most of the critical issues (legal, financial,..) that need to be resolved to allow the project moving forward
• Technical work also possible but cannot be the core of the preparatory phase
Preparatory Phase facilitating financial engineering
for new research infrastructures
Inclusion in Specific RTD
Programme(s)
Inclusion in other DGs
strategic plans
Stakeholdersincl. EIROs
Member States
Inclusion in national
Programmes
Projects
European Commission
EIBRSFF
34 of the 35 ESFRI projects supported
Integrating Activity in FP7
Continuation of the successful FP6 instrument “I3” 3 to 10 M€ (15 M€ in exceptional cases) up to 4 years
Collaboration of existing research infrastructures Normally all major RI’s in Europe in one field At least 3 MS or AS
Three types of activities are obligatory in one project
Networking Activities Trans-national Access and/or Service Activities Joint Research Activities
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" access Remote access: provision of reference material, sample analysis…
Remote access to distributed infrastructures: “trans-nationality” will not apply
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
Trans-national Access and/or Service activities
(cont’d) Specific provisions for trans-national access
activities are defined in Annex III to the GA Access costs = unit cost x quantity of access provided
(will not exceed 20% of costs of providing total access to the installation over the duration of the project)
An estimated unit cost will be specified in Annex I EC financial contribution will be adjusted in the final
financial statement (Form C) based on real UC
Specific provisions for access to services freely available on Internet are defined in SP 17 EC financial contribution for access costs will not exceed
20% of operating costs incurred over the duration of the project
the services offered must be assessed periodically by an external board of international experts in the field, appointed by the project and approved by the Commission.
FP 7 future calls0verall strategy
Three calls for proposals for 2010-2013
A targeted approach For each of the calls, a list of defined
topics Each topic corresponding to one project,
e.g.: "Research Vessels", "Virus archives", "Historical archives“…
More topics will be published than can be funded to ensure competition
Identification of topics
A draft list of topics, based on: Scientific landscapes established by ESFRI RWGs Published national roadmaps (DK, FR, IE, NL, NO,
ES, SE, UK; as well as third countries such as AU, USA)
Other policy documents (CERN, SCAR, etc.) Currently funded I3/Integrating Activity projects
and Coordination Actions (FP6 and FP7) Input from last bottom-up calls A one-day workshop with 40 high-level experts Further input from other directorates / DGs /
Programme Committee
Outcome of the work
79 topics in 6 fields…divided in three calls Environmental sciences and non nuclear
energy Life sciences Mathematics, computer-related sciences,
data Social sciences and humanities Physics, astronomy, nuclear / particle physics Analytical facilities and engineering
Environmental sciences and energy 16 topics environment, 7 topics energy:
29% of the total of the number of topics!
Distribution of the topics between calls
Call A (WP 2010)Published Jul. 2009
Call B (WP 2011)Autumn 2010
Call C (WP 2012)Jan. 2012
35 topics
Expected number of funded projects: ~ 18-20
Budget: ~ 160 M€ Budget: ~ 100 M€ Budget: ~90 M€
21 topics
Expected number of funded projects: ~ 10
23 topics
Expected number of funded projects: ~ 12
WP 2010 (call A): environment
Topics for new communities (I3) include:
Long-term ecosystems research network of sites and experimental platforms, for multidisciplinary research and data collection
RI for polar research: interdisciplinary observation and monitoring stations including atmospheric, terrestrial and marine studies
RI for coastal research, including for integrated coastal zone management and planning
RI for water resource observation, water resource management, hydrological observation
WP 2011 (call B): environment
Topics with existing I3 projects in the RI program Multidisciplinary ocean, marine & coastal data centres RI for carbon cycle observation
Topics for new communities : Observatories and data centres for biodiversity research
WP 2012 (call C): environment Topics with existing I3 projects in the RI program
Research vessels Integrated marine stations supporting research on
aquatic ecosystems based on mesocosm studies RIs for earth systems modelling
I n d
i c
a t
i v
e
RIs for Marine sciences FP6-FP7 projects
2005 20072006 201220092008 20112010 20142013
CeMACE 1 m€
FP6 I3
FP6 CNI/DS
BlackSeaSCENE, 2 m€ FP6 CA
SeaDataNet 8.7 m€
DesignAct 0.5 m€
Eurofleets 7.2 m€
Upg BlackS.Scene 3.4 m€
Mesoaqua 3.5 m€
FP7 I3
More than 52 M€
Euro Argo 3 m€
Aurora Borealis, 4.5 m€ FP 7 PPEMSO 3.9 m€
Assemble 8.7 m€
Geo-Seas 4.9 m€
FP7 - Call B: IA
FP7 - Call A: PP/IA
Conclusions
Research Infrastructure action support to Marine sciences
Well represented in the ESFRI roadmap FP7 funding of 3 « Preparatory Phase »
projects and more projects to come in the next call
FP7 funding of 4 « Integrating Activity » projects and one « e-Infrastructure » project
Future IA topics for the next FP7 calls for proposals
For further information
Research Infrastructures in Europa http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures ESFRI on CORDIS http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/
FP7 and Capacities Specific Programme http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/
Research Infrastructures on CORDIS (FP6) http://cordis.europa.eu/infrastructures/