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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