CRIS in Horizon 2020 and Beyond: Setting the Scene

Keith G Jeffery

President euroCRIS

www.eurocris.org

Structure

• Introduction– Speaker– euroCRIS– H2020

• Initial Conclusion

• Purpose of the Seminar

Introduction: Speaker

• Director International Relations

• Previously Director IT– 360000 users, 1100 servers, 8 Pb data /

year, 140 staff

• CRIS – CERIF

• e-Science

• Open access

Introduction: euroCRIS• Purpose

– Not for profit organisation registered in Netherlands– Mandated by EC to maintain, develop, promote CERIF– Independent advice and expertise

• Constituency– Members in 42 countries in all continents except Antarctica– Strategic partners: ALLEA, ICSU/CODATA, EARMA, ESF, APA, JISC, ERCIM,

CASRAI (and strong links to EC)

• Success– CERIF now nationally approved standard in 9 countries and widely used in

many more– 5 commercial companies offer CERIF-compliant CRIS systems– 2 more have CERIF-compliant versions of their (publisher) offerings

The Requirement• Research managers

– Evaluation– Comparison– Strategic management– Finding reviewers

• Researchers– Access to research information including scholarly publications)– Publicity (webpages, CV, bibliography)– Semi-automated research proposals, publications, evaluation– Cooperation (integrated with intercommunication)

• Innovators– Knowledge and technology transfer– leading to wealth-creation and improvement in the quality of life

• Public– Usually via the media

Project

Person / CV

Institution

Event

Equipment

Books

Journal/article

PatentResearch

Group

Publisher

Information of Interest

CERIF

Introduction H2020

Integrates• FP (Framework Programme)• CIP (Competitiveness and and Innovation

Framework Programme)• EIT (European Institute for (Innovation and)

Technology• ERC (European Research Council)

• With simplified procedures

Objectives• Strengthen the EU’s position in science with a dedicated budget of € 24 598

million.

• Strengthen industrial leadership in innovation € 17 938 million.

• Provide € 31 748 million to help address major concerns shared by all Europeans such as climate change, developing sustainable transport and mobility, making renewable energy more affordable, ensuring food safety and security, or coping with the challenge of an ageing population.

• tackle societal challenges by helping to bridge the gap between research and the market by, for example, helping innovative enterprise to develop their technological breakthroughs into viable products with real commercial potential. This market-driven approach will include creating partnerships with the private sector and Member States to bring together the resources needed.

• Horizon 2020 will be complemented by further measures to complete and further develop the European Research Area by 2014. These measures will aim at breaking down barriers to create a genuine single market for knowledge, research and innovation.

Themes• Excellent Science (24.6m€)

– ERC, FET, Marie-Curie, Research Infrastructures

• Industrial leadership (18m€) – ICT, nanotechnology, materials,

biotechnology, advanced manufacturing & processing, space

– SME support

• Societal Challenges (31.7m€)– Health, food, energy, transport, climate,

security

Initial ConclusionThere is clearly a need for CERIF-CRIS to manage:

the EC-funded research programmenationally funded research programmesespecially where they interact

Fortunately:ERC, ESF and others have adopted CERIF Increasingly countries are adopting CERIF

So:We need to agree a CERIF-CRIS strategy

within the H2020 context

Digital FuturesCore ForesightGenerating trends, visions & scenarios

Young Futures

Policy making 3.0Exploring participatory, agile, evidence-based approaches to policy making

The Onlife InitiativeHow will ICT impact social expectations around policy making?

Digital Futures is an innovative visioning project designed to contribute to the Commission's reflection on ICT policy beyond 2020 and help strengthen anticipatory thinking in EU policy making.

 Digital Futures comprises 4 components:

Digital Futures

Methodology

Digital Futures

• Clearly this requires:– Analysis of past and

ongoing research activities to generate trends, visions, scenarios

– Up-to-date recording of current research activity

– Up-to-date recording of proposed research activity to meet scenarios

• For– Policy-making– Generating trends

and visions– Evaluating socio-

economic impact

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Purpose of Seminar• Views on H2020 (Strategic Partners)

Requirements, opportunities vision)

• Future provision (VIVO, Publishers, Repositories) Vision, technologies, use

• Evaluation and Impact of Research (Funders, (biblio)metricists)

• CRIS extensions for the New Environment (CRIS Extenders) Metadata, datasets, overview

• Future Provision (Commercial CRIS suppliers) Vision, technologies, use

• Workshop on Digital Futures (EC)• Conclusion