DG RTD-B ERA: Research Programmes and Capacity

Research Infrastructures UnitMaria Carvalho Dias

Research Infrastructures: EC FP7 Perspective

Research Infrastructures: EC FP7 Perspective

Research Infrastructures (incl. e-infrastructures) are:

Facilities, resources, and related services usedby the scientific community for Conducting leading-edge research Knowledge transmission, knowledge exchanges

and knowledge preservation Today Research Infrastructures include

Major scientific equipment Scientific collections, archives, structured

information ICT-based infrastructures

Excellence of research services generally subject to periodic evaluation by international scientific committee

• From Globally unique to regionally distributed;

• Many stakeholders (from ministries to researchers)• Underlying and growing use of e-infrastructures;• Opportunities but difficulties of interaction between

basic research and industry…• Lack of funding (public and private); • Single countries do not have the critical mass or

dimension; need to cooperate…

Research infrastructures:Problems at European level

An Ambitious ERA Vision: Developing World-class Research Infrastructures (Report of the ERA Expert Group 2008)

Green Paper on ERA in 2007 Five initiatives in 2008

a)Researchersb)Joint Programmingc)Research infrastructuresd)International S&T Cooperatione)Knowledge transfer and IP

management

WIDENED

ERA

A vision of ERA with global dimension

Fully exploited knowledge and intellectual property

Coherent International S&T co-operation strategies

Joint (access to) world-class research infrastructures

Coherent and efficient research programmes and priorities

Seamless mobility and attractive careers for researchers

Knowledge Triangle:strong universities, research institutions and innovative business

Partnership27 MS + EC

RI policy at EU level has no other choice than

continuing reinforcing coordination

• At EU level, • At national and regional,• At “variable geometry”,• At global level…

This explains the importantrole of ESFRI , e-IRG and others…

ESFRI European Strategy Forum

on Research Infrastructures

Role of ESFRI(and of its ad-hoc Working

Groups)

• To foster an “open method of coordination” between different countries

• To discuss the long term vision at European level and to support the development of a European RI policy

• To bring initiatives and projects to a point where

decisions by ministers are possible

First roadmap in 2006

Update in Dec 2008

A stimulation and incubator role

• Social Sciences and Humanities• Environmental Sciences • Energy Research and Development• Biological and Medical Sciences• Materials and Analytical Facilities• Physics and Engineering• e-Infrastructures

The Roadmap Update 2008

Addressing seven fields of Research:

Responding to “great challenges” / Increased role of e-Infrastructures and of distributed facilities

• The ESFRI roadmap identifies new pan-European Research Infrastructures (RI) or major up-grades to existing ones, corresponding to the needs of European research communities in the next 10 to 20 years, regardless of possible location.

• From about 240 proposals, forty four (44) projects have been identified through several review stages between 2006 and 2008

Some fields should be stimulated for further integration

The Roadmap (cont’d)

Objectives of the CommunityResearch Infrastructures

actions

• Optimising the use and balanced development of the best existing research infrastructures in Europe

• Helping to create in all fields of S & T new research infrastructures of pan-European interest needed by the European scientific community

• Supporting programme implementation and policy development (e.g. international cooperation)

FP7 continues supporting existing Research

Infrastructures

• Integrating Activities to promote the coherent use and development of research infrastructures in a given field, implemented through:Bottom-up callsTargeted calls

• ICT based e-infrastructures in support of scientific research

... and the development of new RI

Preparatory phase - purpose

• To provide a framework facilitating decision-making between partners from different countries

• Work targeted at resolving bottlenecks and addressing most of the critical issues (legal, financial,..) that need to be resolved to allow the project moving forward

• Technical work also possible but cannot be the core of the preparatory phaseThe Preparatory phase is a pathfinder for

construction

FP7 Research Infrastructures actions

Existing Infrastructures

Design studies

New Infrastructures

Construction (preparatory phase; construction phase)

Integrating activities

e-infrastructures

ESFRIRoadmap

Policy Development / Programme Implementation

30% increase

comparing to

FP6

FP 7 RI summary (up to now)

First call for proposals 22.12.06 – 02.05.07• Preparatory Phase (new RI): 33 projects; 136

M€• Design Studies (new RI): 12 projects; 25 M€• Support measures 6 projects; 8 M€

Third call for proposals 30.11.07 – 29.02.08• Integrating activities (existing RI) 38 projects;

278 M€ (follow up, targeted, bottom up)• Support measures 5 projects; 3,7M€

Update of the ESFRI roadmap 2006 • 10 new projects in addition to the 35 on roadmap

2006

Legal framework for RI

To provide an easy-to-use legal instrument adapted to European infrastructures, it should:

• … be recognised in all MS• … have a spirit of a truly European venture • … be flexible enough to adapt to the

requirements of specific infrastructures• … provide some of those privileges allowed at

a national level for international organisations The process should normally be faster and more cost efficient than for other existing legal forms

Proposed regulation for ERI

Objectives

• Elaboration of Regulation (Nov 07 – July 08)• Adoption of proposal by Commission (July 2008)• Submission to the Council and the EP (End July 2008)• Discussions at Research Group level (July-Sept-Oct)• Continued information of stakeholders (e.g. workshop

of September 29, 2008)• Foreseen position of the Council by December 2008• Foreseen application of the regulation by mid-2009

Time table

Next steps

Integrating Activities in FP7 (I3s)

Summary call 3 Proposal for next calls

Integrating Activities in FP7 (I3s)

Summary call 3 Proposal for next calls

Activity/TopicNumber of proposals

Short-listed

proposals

Proposed funding after

evaluation

Integrating Activities

137 38 278,3

ERA-NET 1 1 1,5

Other support measures

11 4 2,2

Total 149 43 282

Summary call 3Results (bottom-up + list of 29

topics)

Selected projects: 8 « follow-up » (success rate 72%)9 « topic » (success rate 23%)11  « bottom-up » (success rate

15%)

Summary call 3 Eligible proposals received,

above thresholds and ranked(budget)

1.097

2 5

993

2 3

385

2 30

200

400

600

800

1.000

1.200

IntegratingActivities

ERANET Policy Support

Mio

€ eligible

above threshold

ranked list

Summary call 3 funding requested vs. recommended

3,9

7584

71

150

3

62

76 76

59

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

SSH ENV./ NNE BMS Eng./ Ana. /Comp.

PHYS

Mio

€ requested

recommended

Summary call 3Proposals

SYNTHESYSBiodiversity, taxonomy, collections

INCREASE Climate change, biodiversity

IS-ENES Climate modeling

EUROCHAMP-2 Atmosphere chemistry

EUFARAtmosphere and geosciences

UP-GRADE BS-SCENE Marine, biodiversity

MESOAQUA Marine mesosphere

EUROFLEETS Marine Science, Geophysics

SFERA Solar energy

DERRI Electricity networks

ASSEMBLE Marine genomics

SLING Bio-informatics resources

EMMAservice Mouse repositories

EMbaRC Microbial resources

EVA Virus archives

NADIR Animal diseases

INFRAVEC Infectious disease vectors

TRANSVAC Vaccine development

PCUBE Structural biology

EAST-NMR Structural biology - NMR

ULICE Hadron therapy centres

SHARE_LEAP Socio-economic science

SERIES Earthquake engineering

ESWIRP Wind tunnels, aeronautics

EUMINAfab Nano-materials

MICROKELVINCryo-engineering, nano-physics

SPIRIT Ion beam technology

EuroMagNET II High magnetic fields

HPC-EUROPA Supercomputers

CHARISMA Cultural heritage

ELISA Synchrotrons

EuCARD Accelerators

LASERLAB-EUROPE Lasers

HadronPhysics2 Hadron physics

NMI3 Neutron sources

EuroPlaNeT RI Planetology

OPTICON Optical Astronomy

RadioNet-FP7 Radio Astronomy

38 new

projects

Lessons learnt

Added value of publishing topics Many RI classes have been stimulated

successfully Probably too many topics, and sometimes too

broad descriptions

Indicated maximum EC contribution not clear enough

Difficulties for evaluating together projects with new or experienced partnerships

Constraints for future calls

The budget Only ~350 M€ for Integrating Activities A predefined annual distribution (2010-2013)

The demand 62 RI fields (FP6 or FP7 I3s ) that could

potentially apply with new projects before the end of FP7, worth

~ 415 M€ Many other RI fields would benefit from

integration • Non-funded topics from the last call (20) • A growing number of other communities

A targeted approach: For each call, a list of defined topics

Topics covering both RI classes: New to the programme Projects funded in the past

More topics listed in a call, than can be funded, to ensure competition

A maximum EC contribution as an eligibility criterion 10 M€ per project (??)

Overall proposed strategy

Proposed planning of future calls

Call APublished Sep. 2009

Call BPublished Jan. 2011

Call CPublished Jan. 2012

Targeted:

List of topics

Targeted:

List of topics

Targeted:List of topics

Only for RI classes

needing a bridge with FP8

~ 160 M€ ~ 100 M€ ~90 M€

Publish only defined topics: more strategic while avoiding a high level of frustration

Support RI classes both new and already funded in the past: ensure continuity while opening new oportunities

Organise three calls: better response to identified needs

Enforce new types of Networking Activities: better trigger long-term sustainability

Proposed strategy for I3s’ next calls

For further information

ESFRI on CORDIS http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/

FP7 and Capacities Specific Programme http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/

Research Infrastructures on CORDIS (FP6) http://cordis.europa.eu/infrastructures/

Research Infrastructures in Europa http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures

Best wishes for Preparing Best wishes for Preparing OPTICONOPTICON

Thank you for your kind attention!