EU Actions for Research Infrastructures

Paris, 24 May 2011JERICO Kick-off meeting

Agnès RobinEuropean Commission, DG Research & Innovation

www.ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures

Contents:-EU perspectives (Europe 2020, Innovation Union)-ESFRI, ERIC-FP7, Integrating Activities

Europe 2020: A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth (COM(2010) 2020)

Seven flagship initiatives « Innovation Union » « A digital agenda for Europe » « Youth on the move » « Resource efficient Europe » « An industrial policy for the

globalisation era » « An agenda for new skills and

jobs » « European platform against

poverty »

EU perspectives

Innovation Union

Strategic approach to innovation

Focused on the Grand Challenges

Three main characteristics:

- A world class science base

- Coherent Europe wide use of public sector intervention to stimulate private sector

- Concerted effort to remove bottlenecks which stop ideas reaching the market

Will shape next generation of programmes for R&I

Innovation Union commitments and Research Infrastructures

(4) « … a European Research Area framework… to ensure…opening of Member State operated research infrastructures to the full European user community;… »

(5) « By 2015 (…) have completed or launched the construction of 60% of the priority European research infrastructures currently identified by ESFRI… »

(32) « The European Union should step up its cooperation on the roll-out of the global 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 2010 Roadmap Report with 48 projects Worth ~18 B€ investments over the next ~10

years(44 projects from the 2008 roadmap)

ESFRI - ENV SciencesRoadmap 2006 (AURORA BOREALIS – Polar research icebreaker) COPAL – Long range aircraft for tropospheric research EMSO – Multidisciplinary seafloor observatory EURO-ARGO – Ocean observing buoy system IAGOS – Climate change obs. from commercial aircraft ICOS – Integrated carbon observation system LIFEWATCH – For research on protection,

management and sustainable use of biodiversity

+ Update 2008 EISCAT_3D – Upgrade of EISCAT for ionospheric and

space weather research EPOS – For study of tectonics and Earth surface

dynamics SIOS – Upgrade of Svalbard integrated Arctic Earth

observation system

+ Update 2010 (Life Sciences, Energy) ANAEE - Analysis and experimentation on ecosystems

Observations

The ESFRI roadmap

• The ESFRI roadmap includes both well matured projects (many of them single-sited ones) and new projects that took form during the elaboration of the ESFRI roadmap (often the distributed ones)

single-sited RIs tends to be much more advanced in their development (6 already in construction)

• Some ESFRI projects are new “green field” projects. Others are building on existing centres and sometimes pre-existing networks

projects face different challenges in how far they have to raise new money for their realisation

Observed impacts

The ESFRI Roadmap …

• Attracted Member State’s attention to the importance of RIs and to the projects of the ESFRI roadmap

• Stimulated the development of national roadmaps and the setting-up of priorities in relation to the ESFRI roadmap

• Mobilised many countries to host an ESFRI project or participate in others

The ESFRI roadmap

A new European legal framework for ERIs: “ERIC”

Necessity of a new Legal Framework, at Community level, for the construction and operation of European Research Infrastructures

A legal personality recognised in all Member States

To facilitate the joint establishment and operation throughout Europe

EU Commission decision end of July 2008, and adoption by the EU Council end of June 2009

Council Regulation (EC) No 723/2009 of 25 June 2009, published in the Official Journal of the European Union L 206/1 EN on 8.8.2009

Budget for Research Infrastructures under FP7

FP7 budget (50 521 M€, current prices)

Capacities4 097 M€

JRC1 751 M€

Ideas7 510 M€

People4 750 M€

Cooperation32 413 M€

ResearchInfrastructures

1 715 M€(~245 M€/year)

Objectives of the FP7Research Infrastructures actions

• Optimising the use and 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)

Existing Infrastructures

Design studies

New Infrastructures

Construction (preparatory phase; construction phase)

FP7 Research Infrastructures actions

Integrating activities

e-infrastructures

Policy Development and Programme Implementation

Indicative

budget

1000 M€

Indicative

budget

600 M€

Indicative budget

80 M€

Integrating ActivitiesOverview

Objective To bring together and integrate, on a European

scale, key research infrastructures in a given class, in order to promote their coordinated use and development

Partnership Normally all major existing research

infrastructures in Europe in one field. At least 3 MS or AS

Funding EC contribution up to 10 M€ (4 years)

Mandatory activities Networking Activities Trans-national Access and/or Service Activities Joint Research Activities

Integrating activities Networking activities

To foster a culture of cooperation between the research infrastructures and the related scientific communities

Forms of activities: Towards a common long-term strategy :

foresight… Towards good practice: exchange of personnel and

visits, standards and quality… Towards the users: training, feedback,

coordination… Towards virtual research communities: web sites,

common software, databases, data management… Towards long-term sustainability: activities with

funders, business plan … Towards innovation Technical workshops, forum, studies…

Integrating activities Transnational access

and/or service activities

Provide transnational access to researchers or research teams for one or more infrastructures among those operated by the participants

"Hands-on" access Remote access: provision of reference material,

sample analysis…

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

Integrating activities 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: Instrumentation / prototype development Development of methods, protocols, standards… Development of software, middleware,

algorithms… Database creation, upgrade, curation… Development and curation of samples

EUFAR – Research aircrafts EUROCHAMP-2 – Atmospheric simulation

chambers EUROFLEETS – Research vessels INCREASE - Network on climate change and

shrubland ecosystems IS-ENES - Earth system modelling MESOAQUA - Mesocosm facilities - aquatic

ecosystems SYNTHESIS – Natural history collections UP-GRADE BS-SCENE - Black Sea data centers (ASSEMBLE - Marine biological laboratories)

Integrating ActivitiesProjects funded and started 2009 (bottom up)

ACTRIS – Aerosols, clouds, and trace gases RI network

EXPEER – Distributed RI for Experimentation in Ecosystem Research

INTERACT – International Terrestrial Arctic collaborative network

JERICO – Coastal observatories (NERA – RI for earthquake risk assessment

and mitigation) SeaDataNet II – Marine data centres

Integrating ActivitiesProjects just starting or under negotiation

FP7 contribution to ENV Sciences RIs (~125 M€ of EU contribution)

BiodiversitySYNTHESIS, EXPEER, INTERACT, INCREASE, MESOAQUA, ANAEE, LIFEWATCH, EMSO, SIOS-PP

Earth SciencesNERA, EMSO, EPOS, EISCAT_3D_2

Atmospheric SciencesACTRIS, EUFAR, EUROCHAMP2, EISCAT_3D_2, ICOS, COPAL, IAGOS-ERI, ICARE-2010

Marine SciencesUP-GRADE BS-SCENE, EUROFLEETS, JERICO, MESOAQUA, EMSO, EURO-ARGO, ERICON-AB

Climate change and resource efficiency (Major societal challenges – Innovation Union 2020)

Climate ChangeIS-ENES, INCREASE, EXPEER, ICOS, DARECLIMED, SIOS-PP

Polar researchINTERACT, ERICON-AB, SIOS-PP

RIs for Marine sciences FP6+7

2005 20072006 201220092008 20112010 20142013

CeMACE, DesignACT 1,5 m€

FP6 I3

FP6 CNI

BlackSeaSCENE, 2 m€ FP6 CA

SeaDataNet 8.7 m€

Eurofleets, 7.2 m€

BlackSeaScene, 3.4 m€

Mesoaqua, 3.5 m€ FP7 I3

About 60M€ of E

C

funding (2005-2012)

Aurora Borealis, 4.5 m€

Jerico, 6.5 m€; etc.

EMSO, 3.9 m€

Euro Argo, 3.0 m€FP7 PP

Towards CSFbased on the lessons learnt from

previous programmes

Successful infrastructure action with: more than 550 RIs supported under FP7 covering all scientific domains (60 Integrating

Activities currently) providing access to researchers from all

European countries with particular benefit to smaller ones

Problems with current limited access opportunities

Challenge for CSF to increase the level of support for existing RIs and to optimise their impact

Not enough support to the ESFRI process

Not enough support to competitiveness of industry (ideas: support to instrumentation… )

For further information

Europe 2020 ec.europa.eu/eu2020

Innovation Union ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union

FP7 cordis.europa.eu/fp7/

EC Research Infrastructures and ESFRI ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures

EC Regional Policy ec.europa.eu/regional_policy

European Investment Bank www.eib.org/products/loans/special/rsff