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RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES in FP7

EUDET I3 Kickoff meeting, Desy, Hamburg 15-17/2/2006

Presentation by Stefano Fontana, DG Research

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Research Infrastructures in FP7Research Infrastructures in FP7

Term refers to “facilities”, “resources” or “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

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Research Infrastructures in FP7Research Infrastructures in FP7

Objectives:

To optimise the use, development and integration of the best research infrastructures existing in Europe

To help create new research infrastructures of pan- European interest (or major upgrades of existing ones)

Open to all fields of science and technology

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Activities in FP7Activities in FP7

For existing research infrastructures

- Transnational Access

- Integrating Activities

- ICT based e-infrastructures

For new research infrastructures (incl. major upgrades)

- Design Studies

- Construction of New Infrastructures

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Existing research infrastructures in Existing research infrastructures in FP7FP7

Objective: To optimise their use, development and integration

- Transnational Access: to support new opportunities for research teams to obtain access to the best research infrastructures

- Integrating Activities: to integrate European infrastructures and promote their coherent use and development (networking + transnational access + joint research activities)

- ICT based e-infrastructures: to foster development of high-capacity and high-performance communication (GÉANT) and grid infrastructures

Implementation : bottom-up calls for proposals open to all fields ofscience + targeted calls in close cooperation thematic areas in FP7

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New research infrastructures in New research infrastructures in FP7FP7

Objective: To help create new research infrastructures of pan-European interest (or major upgrades of existing ones)

- Design studies: to support feasibility studies for new infrastructures through approach of calls for proposals

- Construction of new infrastructures (incl. major upgrades): to promote the creation of new infrastructures through a strategic approach based on the work conducted by ESFRI* on the development of a European roadmap fro new research infrastructures

* ESFRI – European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures

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New research infrastructures in New research infrastructures in FP7FP7

Construction via a two-stage process:

The preparatory phase

- restricted calls targeting priority projects (based on the work of ESFRI)

to support finalisation of construction plans, legal organisation, financial engineering, management aspects

The construction phase

- developed following the satisfactory implementation of the preparatory phase

- “case by case” approach (e.g. use of Article 171)

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TimetableTimetable for FP7 adoption

6 April 2005 FP7 proposal

21 September 2005 Specific Prog. proposals

June 2006 ? Adoption

November 2006 ? First calls for proposals

January 2007 ? Launch Conference

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Research Infrastructures on CORDIS

http://www.cordis.lu/infrastructures/

ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Unfrastructures)

http://www.cordis.lu/esfri/

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