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II Workshop IFAECI
CONICET – CNRS - UBA
Museo de Ciencias Naturales B.Rivadavia
April 25-27 2011
Jorge G. TEZONCONICET
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Universities
CONICET research centers
Agriculture technology INTA
Natl Atomic Energy Comission CNEA
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• 7000 Full time researchers - 42% in
public universities• 2299 Professional technicians• 8700 Doctoral and postdoc
fellows• 1900 Research projects• 150 Research Units 90 % under
co-administration with Universities
Administration Research Units
Agriculture & Veterinary Sciences Biotechnology & Food Sciences Biological Sciences Health Sciences Earth, Astronomy, Social & Humanities Sciences Physics, Chemistry & Materials Sciences Engineering & Architecture , Habitat Mathematics & Computer Sciences
Multidisciplinary centers
Observatories
INSTITUTIONAL NETWORK of CONICET
Some limitations of “local & individual science”
• single disciplines, institutions and jurisdictions • Poor organization : “lack of project management” • High quality standards but poor quality assurance. • ORIGINALITY over INTEGRATION of knowledge.• Individual appropriation of primary data. • Evaluation of projects and its products follows the trend.
• Big science problems are multidisciplinary , multinstitutional and interjurisdictional, conducted and managed. Subjected to rules and contracts and evaluated on a long term.
President President
DefenseDefense
EducationEducation
AgricultureAgriculture
HealthHealth Infrastructure &Industry
Infrastructure &Industry
State DeptState Dept
I. Geograf.I. Geograf.
ANPCYTANPCYT
CONICETCONICET
UniversitiesUniversities
Antartic.Inst
Antartic.Inst
ANLISANLIS
INTAINTAINIDEPINIDEP
INTIINTI
CONAE
CONAE
SEGEMARSEGEMARINAINA
CNEACNEA
S&T InstitutionsS&T Institutions
EnergyEnergy
S&TS&T
CITEFACITEFA
S.Hidrogr.S.Hidrogr.
S.Meteor.S.Meteor.
Challenges in the process to “big science”
• Evaluation and funding of proposals from the interdiscipline and
problem perpective.
• Leadership “external to discipline” and management by non
scientist experts (?)
• Organizational complexity : complex problems need diversified
groups and lifespan limited to project stages (cooperation-subletting)
• Quality control (include “non pier” validation ?)
• Objective-oriented results over originality
• Contribution to problem solving (data and instruments for problem
comprehension : databases, modelization, prognosis, diagnosis of
environment or social behavior etc)
Some systemic actions on information
• Information preservation and access: A) rules,
agreements, commitments. B) building Information
archives and collections, databases• Central facilites ; Testing platforms, computing
networks (GRID) or supercomputing for simulation
and modeling.• Remote use of facilities in other countries. • Networking
Towards a better diagnosis for international cooperation
……..who sets up the tendencies?
The funded projects are “the tip of the iceberg” of real cooperation : 90 projects per year.
….but 2000 joint publications in ISI journals between CONICET researchers and partners abroad, ………….most without specific funding.
Establishing agendas and priorities for :
• Joint development of scientific field. • Address shared or global problems.• Development of local vacancies or taking
advantage of local opportunities.
Institutions must involve to find the best partners and or convince them to cooperate.
Only reliable partners count.
Establishing agendas and priorities
National Joint Agendas ?
International cooperation pulls integration of local groups and institutions but ……
……………also competition between them
USA Brazil France Germany
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Univ Calif Davis
Univ Sao Paulo Univ Paris Max Planck
Univ IllinoisCtr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis
CNRSAlfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine Res
Cornell UnivUniv Fed Rio
Grande do SulCEA Saclay
Rhein Westfal TH Aachen
Univ TexasUniv Fed Rio de
JaneiroObserv Paris
Univ Munich
SUNY Binghamton
Univ Estadual Campinas
INSERM Univ Tubingen
Which partners? Where to focuse the efforts?
New strategy for intl. cooperation at CONICET
Situation : • Local funding for research (Agencia, CONICET,
Universities, Provinces, Natl Programs )• Many groups internationally competitive.• Need to skip “endogenous growth”.• Opportunities for contribution to big science. • Need to be present in big science projects. • International Cooperation sets higher standards • International cooperation helps to gather local
efforts and resources.
Level of cooperation
Based Joint Planning
JointFunding
Specific infrastructure
Specific Personnel
Joint Evaluation
Intl UNITS Arg. +++++ +++++ ++++++ +++++ +++++
Intl AsosciatedLabs
Both Sides
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Networks Both Sides
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Bilat.Projects
Both Sides
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Basic Coop.
Either Side
Unilat. Unilat.
Some examples : International Units
CONICET CNRS UBA : IFAECI Climate
CONICET CNRS : Computing modeling and simulation.
CONICET Soc Max Planck : Biomedicine
CONICET Univ de Marseille, UNR : Informatics
CONICET-CSIC-Min INNov e INV , MINCyT, UNR : Plant Genomics
Some examples International Associated laboratories : LIAs
• CONICET CNRS UBA : fluid mechanics • CONICET CNRS UBA Molecular vectors • CONICET INSERM UCC : Molecular immunology • CNEA CNRS nanosciences and nanotechnology (UM CONICET CNEA)
Networks or consortia • CONICET NSF several Universities : high atmosphere • CONICET iBOL Bar Code of Life : molecular taxonomy • CNEA USA EU Pierre Auger Observatory (UM CNEA CONICET)
In preparation
• CONICET DFG physical chemistry.• CONICET , CNRS ,Sorbonne Nouvelle -Paris 3 , Paris Ouest -
Nanterre - La Defense UNQ UNGS UNSAM : Constitutional studies • CONICET, UBA, UNC, SAYDS , China, Brazil, France (IRD ?):
Desertification monitoring. • CONICET . INTA Consortium of 24 countries : wheat genetic code• CONICET several Universities : Virtual Astronomy Observatory
• CONICET – CNRS- UBA (others?) IFAECI climate and global change
Puna Region
Arid Valleys Region
Central Region (Cuyo)
Patagonia Region (2 GAAs)
LADA Argentina: desertification assessment
Monitoring Group(Córdoba)
National Coordination (Buenos Aires) Surface 2.791.810 km2
FAUBA
The UMI is a challenge to integrate not only knowledge and scientists but institutions and
countries
Modelization in climate research
• Climate scenarios at UMI on High Computing Modelization and Simulation
• Fluid mechanics at LIA• Very complex models at EU large computing facilities.
Opportunities for Regional networking and new partners
Uruguay : extension of FREPLATA project
Chile : •Collaboration with UMI on modellization •Joint projects on high atmosphere chemistry •Joint projects South Atlantic oceanography •Collaboration in glaciers monitoring
Brazil: •Cooperation on desertification assessment •Joint research in Oceanography