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HORIZON 2020

EU enabling global research: connectivity, data, computation,

co-operation

eAGE 2014 Conference, Muscat, Oman 10-11 December 2014

Aniyan VargheseEuropean Commission - DG CONNECT

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VisionVision

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ApproachApproachTransversal

Cutting across disciplines and sectors

Support tomorrow’s scienceOpen science, open access, best solutions

Enabling innovationDeveloping and testing innovative solutionsServicing industry and SMEsSpinning out technologies

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• MORE COMPUTING POWERMORE COMPUTING POWER• BIG DATABIG DATA• GLOBAL CONNECTIONSGLOBAL CONNECTIONS• GLOBAL PARTICIPATIONGLOBAL PARTICIPATION• OPEN IS BETTEROPEN IS BETTER

• WITHIN ANDWITHIN AND BETWEENBETWEENSCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIESSCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES

• BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SOCIETYBETWEEN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

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MIT Technology Review, 2012

Future of learning technology - 2015, Amit Grag, 2010

6Business and the Digital Universe, IDC, 2012

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GÉANT

• Communication Commons for 50 million users in over 10,000 institutions across 40 countries

• 50000 km of cross-borders links including 12000 km of dark fiber

• range of innovative services operated 24x7 including • wifi federated access – eduroam –

growing at 100%+ y/y and adopted WW

• Federated access to content – eduGAIN – adopted WW

• Globally connected to all peering regional clusters in the world as well as to developed countries

• Open innovation through open competitive call attracting 70 proposals of which 21 were selected for a total EC funding of 3.3 M€

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e-Infrastructure e-Infrastructure integrates resourcesintegrates resourcesand services…and services…

NetworkingNetworkingComputingComputingDataDataSoftwareSoftwareUser interfacesUser interfaces

e-Infrastructure to support: e-Infrastructure to support: • Research under Horizon 2020Research under Horizon 2020• Open Access policyOpen Access policy• Open Data pilotOpen Data pilot• Data Management PlanningData Management Planning• … …

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Global Virtual Research Community

e-e-InfrastructureInfrastructure((GridGrid empoweredempowered))

e-e-InfrastructureInfrastructure((GridGrid empoweredempowered))

securitym

obility

semantic web.

automatic

managem

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broadband

e-Learning

e-Business

neuroscience

genomics

environment

biomedicine

e-Health

e-Science

Grid

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network infrastructure, GÉANT

HPC/distributed computing/software infrastructure

scientific data infrastructure

e-infrastructure building bridges

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• Development of common reference model , standards, and common components for data pre-processing and post-processing

• Contribution to GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) and compliance with INSPIRE EC Directive

• Large participation of ICT and e-infrastructures actors (key partners from D4SCIENCE, GENESI, EGI, EUDAT, PRACE…)

EPOS

EURO-ARGO

ICOS

SIOS

EMSOEISCAT

LIFE-WATCH

EU funding : 3.7 M€, started in 2011

Implementation cluster for

Environment ENVRI

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Industrial & Engineering

Weather, Climate & Earth Sciences

Fundamental sciences: Physics, Chemistry, Material Sciences, Astrophysics

Bio/Life Sciences

Importance of HPC

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European HPC Strategy – an integrated approach in H2020

• Basis: Commission Communication "High-Performance Computing: Europe's place in a Global Race" (2012)

• Vision: to ensure European leadership in the supply and use of HPC systems and services by 2020 in a strategy combining:

(a) developing the next generation of HPC towards exascale;

(b) providing access to the best HPC infrastructure for both industry and academia;

(c) achieving excellence in computing applications - existing or new – driven by the needs of science, industry and SMEs

Linking demand and supply – in the spirit of Horizon 2020

Contractual Public-Private Partnership (cPPP) covering (a) and part of (c)

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Research Data become the infrastructure for modern science

Europe is Riding the Wave

Data e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use and trust of data

Physical and technical infrastructure become invisible and the data becomes the infrastructure

Valuable asset on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance

Commission Communication on Scientific Information COM(2012)401 final (July 2012)

• Access, preservation and e-infrastructure (publications and data)

ERA Communication COM(2012)392

• Federation of researcher electronic identities

Riding the WaveHigh Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, October 2010

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/docs/hlg-sdi-report.pdf

Distribution of 2,353 Individual RDA Members in 96 Countries12 September 2014

Map courtesy traveltip.org

Austral-pacific5%

Africa3%

SouthAmerica1%

Asia5%

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World Class Connectivity and Services to Knowledge Communities • Support Growth and Opening up• Help to close digital divides• Europe as global hub• Stimulate innovation

Reorganize for 2020• Flexibility in Technology and Architecture• Experimentation and standardisation• Improve Governance• Step up Funding• Update the Regulatory Regime

GÉANT Experts Group Report

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International cooperation actions / 2014-2015

• Coordinated calls• EU-Brazil (7 M€)

• Cloud computing, including security aspects• High performance computing• Experimental platforms

• EU-Japan (6 M€)• Technologies combining big data, internet of things in the cloud• Optical communications• Acces networks for densely located users• Experimentation and development on federated Japan-EU testbeds

• International partnership building and support to dialogues with high income countries (USA, Canada, East Asia and Oceania) (3 M€)

• International partnership building in low and middle income countries (11 M€)

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e-Infrastructure policy development and international cooperation (call closed)

• • Coordination and Support Actions for:

• Information dissemination and sharing on and between projects• Stakeholder initiatives, including user forum • Policy coordination at EU or regional level, including collection of

information for policy-making• Monitoring results and impacts of H2020 e-infrastructure activities• Monitoring and analysing the take-up of eScience and e-

infrastructures• Technology transfer from e-infrastructure projects to market• Cooperation with developing countries and regions

• Budget 5M€ in 2014; Call closed 02/09/2014

• Selection Results will be announced soon

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Question for discussion?

How can you be a part of the global research and play an active role?

THANK YOU

Dr Aniyan Varghese aniyan.varghese@ec.europa.eu

European Commission – DG CONNECTExcellence in Science, eInfrastructure