Research Infrastructures: Towards FP7
ENSCONET, second annual meetingValencia, June 16, 2006
Jean-Emmanuel Faure, European CommissionDG Research
A definition for Research Infrastructures
• Term refers to “facilities”, “resources” and related “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
Research Infrastructures are at the core of the knowledge
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Objectives of the Research Infrastructures actions
Optimising the use and development of the best research infrastructures existing in Europe
Helping to create in all fields of S & T new research infrastructures of pan-European interest needed by the European scientific community
For Europe to strengthen its base of knowledge and its technological know how
FP6 Support to Research Infrastructures
• Support Transnational Access to sponsor new opportunities for research teams to obtain access to individual major Research Infrastructures (RIs)
• Support Integrating Activities to promote the coherent use and development of RIs:– Coordination Actions– Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives
• Support Transnational Access to sponsor new opportunities for research teams to obtain access to individual major Research Infrastructures (RIs)
• Support e-infrastructures to reinforce high-capacity and high-performance communication, grid infrastructures and European computing capabilities
• Support Integrating Activities to promote the coherent use and development of RIs:– Coordination Actions– Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives
• Support Transnational Access to sponsor new opportunities for research teams to obtain access to individual major Research Infrastructures (RIs)
• Design studies: to support feasibility studies and technical preparatory work for new research infrastructures of clear European dimension
• Support e-infrastructures to reinforce high-capacity and high-performance communication, grid infrastructures and European computing capabilities
• Support Integrating Activities to promote the coherent use and development of RIs:– Coordination Actions– Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives
• Support Transnational Access to sponsor new opportunities for research teams to obtain access to individual major Research Infrastructures (RIs)
• Construction of New Infrastructures: to provide limited support for the development of new infrastructures
• Design studies: to support feasibility studies and technical preparatory work for new research infrastructures of clear European dimension
• Support e-infrastructures to reinforce high-capacity and high-performance communication, grid infrastructures and European computing capabilities
• Support Integrating Activities to promote the coherent use and development of RIs:– Coordination Actions– Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives
• Support Transnational Access to sponsor new opportunities for research teams to obtain access to individual major Research Infrastructures (RIs)
Structural Biology
EUPRIM-NetEMMAinf
EU-NMRDatabases /
Bio-informatics
Felics
Repositories
IA-SFS
Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives
MaxInf2
ENSCONETProteomeBinders
Coordination Actions
ICGRSIB
WNMRC
NeuralComp
Transnational Access
EuroCarbDBBio-DNPSaxier
GeneExpress
Design Studies
CISB
BINASP
Eutricod
NanoBio
Highsecurity labs
Construction of New Infrastructure
ENIR
Imaging
Accompanying Measures
18 projects
144 partners62 MEuro
FP6 Projects for life Sciences Research Infrastructures
Several hundreds of thousands of users
http://www.cordis.lu/infrastructures/projects.htm
EC SeventhFramework Programme
• Proposed duration: 7 years (2007 to 2013)
SMEsRegions of knowledgeResearch potentialScience in societyInternational cooperationResearch Infrastructures
• Organised in 4 specific programmes: Cooperation (65%) People (10%) Ideas (15%) Capacities (10%)
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LIP (FP2) HCM (FP3) TMR (FP4) IHP (FP5) FP6
New InfrastructuresIntegrated InitiativesNetworksRTD ProjectsAccess
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Continuous increase of Community Continuous increase of Community support to Research support to Research
Infrastructures all over the FPs and Infrastructures all over the FPs and joint efforts between DG RTD and joint efforts between DG RTD and
DG INFSODG INFSO
FP7+ 60%
FP7 Support to existing Research Infrastructures
• Support Integrating Activities to promote the coherent use and development of research infrastructures in a given field
• Support e-infrastructures to reinforce high-capacity and high-performance communication, grid infrastructures and European computing capabilities
Implementation through:
• Bottom-up calls for proposals open to all fields of science
• Targeted calls implemented whenever appropriate in cooperation with thematic areas
FP7 Support to new Research Infrastructures
• Design studies: to support feasibility studies and technical preparatory work for new research infrastructures of clear European dimension and interest (through bottom-up calls)
• 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)
ESFRI – Toward a European Roadmap
• Tool for decision makers preventing over-provision of facilities in particular areas, and for long term budgetary planning by funding actors
• A forum (not a decision making body) that brings together representatives of the 25 EU Member States and 7 Associated States, appointed by Research Ministers, and one representative of the European Commission
• To prepare a European Roadmap of the needs for new European research infrastructures or major upgrades to existing ones. The first version is due end of 2006, with regular updates
ESFRI
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Biological and Medical Sciences
Social Sciences and Humanities
Clinical and Translational research
Biodiversity and Environment
Genomics, Bioinformatics, et al
Soft X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
European Cultural Heritage
Structuration of the ESFRI work
• Clinical research • Bio-informatics • Bio-banks and genomic resources • Structural biology• Animal model facilities and functional analysis
of a whole mammalian genome
Two expert groups under ESFRI have analyzed the needs for biology
A two-stage process:
• The preparatory phase- restricted calls targeting projects identified on the
ESFRI Roadmap to support the finalisation of the construction plans, of the legal organisation and of the management aspects
Construction of new Research Infrastructures
• The implementation phase- developed following the satisfactory achievement
of the preparatory phase
FP7 Accompanying measures
Support measures, through a mixed bottom-up / top down approach, for:
– the coordination of research infrastructures in emerging areas
– the development of a European policy for RI – the development of international cooperation
• Targeted calls• Support to the construction or major upgrade of Research Infrastructures: A vision for the next 10-20 years• A increased budget over FP7
Conclusions
Novelties
Looking for catalysing, leveraging, additionality and managerial effects
• Research Infrastructures on CORDIS (FP6)
http://www.cordis.lu/infrastructures/
• ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures)
http://www.cordis.lu/esfri/
• Specific Programme Capacities
ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/fp7/docs/fp7sp_capacities_en.pdf
• FP7 Proposal
http://www.cordis.lu/fp7/
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