j. sauer (eurosearch office switzerland) - research infrastructures in europe

Dr. Juliane Sauer National Contact Point Research InfrastructuresEuresearch Head Office [email protected] +41 380 60 21

Research Infrastructures

«Digitale Forschungsinfrastrukturen für die Geschichtswissenschaften» infoclio.ch

© Euresearch Dr. Juliane Sauer September 2010 Research Infrastructures www.euresearch.ch

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Science and Research Infrastructures

“Science is organized knowledge.”

Immanuel Kant, German philosopher

1724 - 1804


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Outline of this presentation

Background: Lisbon Strategy, Switzerland and FP7What are Research Infrastructures?Basic Features and StructureThe specialty of e-infrastructuresExisting infrastructures for the Social Sciences and Humanities

DARIAHEuresearch Take Home Message


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Lisbon Strategy

Research

Growth and Jobs

Education Innovation

7th Framework Programme FP7(2007-2013)

Life Long Learning LLL Innovation and Competitiveness Programme CIP

make Europe the most competitive economic space in the world

Associated from 2011 on

Cannot participate

Fully Associated to FP7


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FP7 – Structure

COOPERATION IDEAS

PEOPLE CAPACITIES

EURATOM Joint Research Centre JRC

Total Budget: € 53.4 billion for 7 years


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€ 32.4

€ 7.5

€ 4.7

€ 4.1

10 thematic programmes

Basic research (ERC)

Mobility (Marie Curie actions)

7 horizontal axes

4 Specific FP7 programmes Billion €

CAPACITIES

Cooperation

Ideas

People

Capacities


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47% : Support for existing & for new Research Infrastructures (top-down)

30% Research for and by SMEs (bottom-up)

23% Other programmes

CAPACITIES


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The Commissions‘ Definition…

The term “research infrastructures” refers to Facilities

Resourcesand Related Services that are used by the scientific community to conduct top-level research in their respective fields.


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…meaning: This definition covers: major scientific equipment or set of instrumentsknowledge based-resources such as: collections, archives or structured scientific information;

enabling ICT*-based Infrastructures such as Grid, computing, software and communications

*Information and Communication Technologies


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Lines of actionExisting Infrastructures New Infrastructures

Integrating activitesI3-structure

Design studiesInfrastructures in all fields of

research E- Infrastructures

E-InfrastructuresScientific Digital Repositories

Deployment of eInfrastructures for scientific communities

Construction of new infrastructuresPreparatory Phases

Policy support


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3fold Structure I3 (and e-infrastructures)

Joint Research Activities- E.g. integration of installations and infrastructures into virtual facilities, innovative solutions for data collection, management and annotation;- E.g. innovative solutions for communication network

Transnational Access- provide trans-national access to researchers/research teams- should be implemented in a coordinated way- The research team, or its majority, must come from countries other than where the operator of the infrastructure is established

Networking Activities - e.g. joint management and pooling of distributed resources;- e.g. strengthening of virtual research communities;

- e.g. development of common standards, protocols and interoperability, benchmarking;

- e.g. development and maintenance of common databases for the purpose of networking and management of the users and infrastructures- e.g. spreading of good practices, consultancy and training courses to new users- etc.


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ESFRI Roadmap: The Guideline

1000 experts from all fields of research involved

Policy-makers, funders, industry, society…Indication for future Actions

This roadmap is gradually updated in the upcoming years with new projects (new edition expected at the end of 2010)

Switzerland is e.g. involved in the SSH working group, lead by Dr. Peter Farago of FORS, Lausanne

The Swiss ESFRI Delegate is Dr. Philipp Langer from SER


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E-Infrastructures: Virtual Communities

Aim: developing a new research environment, building upon the ICT capabilities of existing infrastructures


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Definition of E-Infrastructures

Virtual Research Environment with easy access for scientific community all over the word

Foster the emergence of new working methods Strengthening of more intense collaboration between research centres and their researchers in 'virtual research communities'

Further development and evolution of high-capacity and high-performance communication (GÉANT) and grid empowered infrastructures


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Existing Research Infrastructures for SSH

CESSDA - Council of European Social Science Data Archives

CLARIN - Common LAnguage Resources and technology INitiative

SHARE - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

DARIAH - DigitAl Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities


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DARIAH

DARIAH: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities The mission of DARIAH is to enhance and support digitally-enabled research across the humanities and arts. DARIAH aims to develop and maintain an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices.


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Partners of DARIAH Coordinator: Data Archiving and Networked Services, Netherlands Uk Archaeology Data Service Centre for e-Research Oxford University Computing Services Greece Academy of Athens Digital Curation Unit, Athena Research CentreFrance Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueSlovenia Institute for Contemporary HistoryIreland Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social SciencesGermany Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - Max Planck Digital Library University of Goettingen (Goettingen State and University Library)Denmark University of Copenhagen - Department of Scandinavian ResearchCroatia Ruđer Bošković Institute


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Associated Partners of DARIAHDARIAH works with its associate partners for knowledge exchange and collaboration. Associate

partners contribute to DARIAH's ongoing work, but have no access to funds and have no voting rights.

Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale (Digital Renaissance Foundation) (Italy)

HUMlab, Umeå University (Sweden) Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Humanities Informatics Department, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The Heritage Laboratory, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Swedish National Data Service


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DARIAH…

…has a blog…sends out a newsletter…organizes conferences …helps building your network!


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What you can do

You can access Research Infrastructures in your field You can join a RIS I3 (if the consortium agrees)You can apply for an e-infrastructure (this year only!) You can join stakeholders groups, e.g. e-irg


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Open Calls and more information FP7-INFRA-2011-1Call 8

FP7-INFRA-2011-2Call 9 (e-infra)

163.45 Mill. Euro

95 Mill. Euro


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Euresearch - The Network

St. Gallen

Basel

ZürichNeuchâtel

Genève

Lausanne

Lugano - Ticino

Bern

Fribourg

Luzern

Headoffice Bern

Euresearch Regional Offices

Your first port of call locally

Euresearch Head Office

Your National Contact Points

SwissCoreLiaison office of SNSF

& SER in Brussels,partner of Euresearch


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From Project Idea to Project Management

Project Idea

Project Preparation

Build a Proposal

Evaluation

Negotiation

Projectmanagement

ReportingExploitation

EURESEARCH-Support

3 months

publ

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dead

line

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6 months

cont

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3 months


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Take home message

Research Infrastructures are not necessarily the easiest way to get money for research – but the existing research infrastructures provide exciting possibilities!

If interested in the Policy behind the ESFRI: Contact SER!

Dr. Philipp Langer, ESFRI-Delegate for CH Check them out for yourself:http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/research-infrastructures_en.html


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Contact Data

For more Information on Research Infrastructures in FP7:

Dr. Juliane Sauer, National Contact Point Euresearch Head Office+31 380 60 [email protected]