EUROPEAN RESEARCH

INFRASTRUCTURES & e-

INFRASTRUCTURES

Romeo FAGUREL

The project BLACK SEA HORIZON has received funding from Horizon 2020, the EU Framework

Programme for Research and Innovation, under the Grant Agreement 645785 (H2020-INT-INCO-2014).

Chisinau,

December 16, 2015

Black Sea Horizon (BSH) Project

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Funding: Horizon 2020, under the Grant Agreement

645785 (H2020-INT-INCO-2014).

Duration: February 2015 – January 2018

Project Partners:

19 organisations, 16 countries: AT, DE, GR, TR, HU, BG, FR, MD, PL, PT, RO, AM, RU, UA, GE, AZ

Coordinator:

Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI GmbH), Austria

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Black Sea Horizon (BSH) Project

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ZSI, AT

DLR, DE

CERISS, GR

TUBITAK, TR

RCISD, HU

ARC Fund, BG

inno - inno TSD, FR

ICBSS, INTL (GR)

CIP, MD

IPPT-PAN, PL

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SPI, PT

UEFISCDI, RO

NAS-RA , AM

RFBR, RU

HSE, RU

IEF, UA

ESIDG, GE

SRNSF, GE

SDF-AZE, AZ

Black Sea Horizon (BSH) Project

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Black Sea Horizon (BSH) Project

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to support the EU’s external relations with the target region by significantly contributing to ongoing bi-regional and

regional STI policy dialogues,

and by increasing the knowledge base about the EU’s external environment;

to stimulate bi-regional STI cooperation and to strengthen the EU’s economic competitiveness;

to contribute to the establishment of supportive framework conditions by facilitating the pooling of resources

and by identifying challenging thematic areas for mutual STI cooperation.

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Support the EU’s external relations with the target region

EU Black Sea Cooperation Programme in STI (WP1)

Bi regional STI conference (WP1)

Increase the knowledge base about EU’s external environment;

Policy briefs (obstacles, drivers and opportunities; patterns of cooperation based on co publishing and co-patenting (WP1)

Stimulate bi-regional STI cooperation;

Webinars on H2020 (WP3)

Grant scheme for brokerage events (WP3)

H2020 Summer school (WP3)

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Strengthen the EU’s economic competitiveness;

Cluster identification, cluster manager training (WP4)

Business contacts and training of entrepreneurs (WP4)

Contribute to the pooling of resources

Group of funding parties (WP2)

ToR for a joint call (WP2)

Call secretariat set up (WP2)

Contribute to the establishment of supportive framework conditions;

Reviewer database (WP2)

Identify challenging thematic areas for mutual STI cooperation

Thematic research directions (WP4)

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Defining RI:

Research Infrastructures are facilities, resources and services used by the scientific community for conducting research and innovation in their fields.

They include:

•  major scientific equipment or set of instruments

•  knowledge-based resources such as collections, archives or scientific data

•  e-infrastructures, such as data and computing systems, and communication networks

•  and any other entities of a unique nature essential to achieve excellence in research and innovation.

They can be “Single-sited”, “distributed” or “virtual” and, when relevant, may be used beyond research, e.g. for education or public services.

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What's new:

A strategic approach with more attention to the contribution to the current political priorities

More integration with other parts of Horizon 2020, in particular the Societal challenges

New and reinforced emphasis on innovation, sustainability and data exploitation throughout all programme, in particular in actions for advanced communities and established pan-European research infrastructures

Support to large scale initiatives for innovation

New approach for integrating activities with different processes for Starting and Advanced Communities

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Research Infrastructures – Calls

5 Calls – 15 topics

1. Development and long-term sustainability of new

pan-European RIs

2. Integrating and Opening RIs of European Interest

3. e-Infrastructures

4. Fostering the innovation potential of RI

5. Support to Policy and International cooperation

(RI/e-RI)

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Call INFRADEV– Development and long-

term sustainability of new pan-European RIs

To support the development of a comprehensive landscape of

new sustainable world-class research infrastructures in Europe,

helping to respond to challenges in science, industry & society

Emphasis on long-term sustainability, efficient operation, data

management and on fostering the innovation potential

1.Design studies

2.Preparatory Phase of ESFRI projects

3.Individual support to ESFRI & Other World Class Research Infrastructures

4.Pilot action for a Eur. Open Science Cloud for Research

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INFRADEV-01-2017 - Design studies

Support the conceptual and technical design of new research infrastructures, which are leading-edge user facilities of a clear European dimension and interest :

Bottom-up call, aimed at identifying the RIs that really have the potential to become the next generation of European world-class RI

Total budget 20 M€- EU contribution per proposal (RIA) between 1-3 M€

Leading to a 'conceptual or technical design report' through:

Scientific & technical work: drafting of concepts & engineering plans for the construction; creation of prototypes; work to ensure the take-up and the efficiency of the services provided to scientific communities and

Conceptual work: plans to integrate the new RI into the European RI landscape; estimation of budget for construction and operation; plans for an international governance structure; planning of research services to be provided; procedure and criteria to choose the RI site.

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INFRADEV-02-2016 – Preparatory phases

Support the preparatory phase of ESFRI projects:

Targeting the new projects in the 2016 update of the ESFRI roadmap

Total budget 40 M€- EU contribution per proposal up to 4 M€

Coordination & Support Action (CSA)

Leading to a legal and financial agreements for the setting-up of the RI through work on:

Legal setting;

Governance structure; Management and logistic organisation;

Financial setting for construction, operation and decommission;

Strategic aspects such as socio-economic and local/regional impact;

Technical aspects when necessary to complete the final technical design.

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INFRADEV-03-2016 – Individual support to

ESFRI & OWCRI

To facilitate and support long-term sustainability and efficient

operation of the ESFRI & Other World-Class RI (OWCRI):

Targeting individual ESFRI RI and OWCRI with established legal structure and governance at EU or international level, such as ERIC.

Total budget 70 M€- EU contribution per proposal (CSA) 2 - 5 M€

On a competitive basis: proposals must demonstrate their crucial need for the requested support and how this will ensure their sustainability

Proposals must also explain complementarities with previous or current EU grants.

Covering: membership enlargement, international cooperation, testing and improvement of access provision to users to increase reliability and create trust, definition of business model & service model agreements, outreach and technology transfer.

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INFRADEV-04-2016 – European Open

Science Cloud for research

Pilot action to demonstrate how wide availability of scientific data and data-analysis services for European researchers can be ensured through a cloud infrastructure.

Addressing the federation, networking and coordination of existing research infrastructures and scientific clouds to increase data findability, accessibility and interoperability, and to facilitate re-use of data

Total budget 10 M€- EU contribution per proposal (RIA) between 5 and 10 M€

Designing a stakeholder driven governance framework

Building on existing e-infrastructures and thematic data infrastructures

Interrelated to EINFRA-12-2017

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Call INFRADEV Summary 17

Call INFRAIA - Integrating and

opening RIs of European interest

To open up key national and regional research

infrastructures to all European researchers and to

ensure their optimal use and joint development

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1.INFRAIA-01-2016-2017: IA for Advanced

communities: whose RIs show an advanced degree

of coordination gained through previous IA grants

One stage call. Targeted approach based on a Multi-

Annual Plan (MAP) Total budget 160 M€- EU

contribution per proposal (RIA) up to 10 M€

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2.INFRAIA-02-2017: IA for Starting communities:

never supported for their RI integration under EU

FP7 or Horizon 2020 calls, in particular within an

IA call

Two-stage call. Bottom-up approach

Total budget 40 M€- EU contribution per proposal

(RIA) up to 5 M€

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Integrating Activities

Three mandatory components:

1. Networking;

2. Trans-national / Virtual Access;

3. Joint Research Activities for the improvement of RI services.

targeted approach: pre-defined research areas

max one proposal per area is expected to be funded, as IAs aim to coordinate & integrate key RI in given fields avoiding duplicate efforts

access to be provided only to key RI of European interest, able to attract significant numbers of TA users. Other national and regional RI can be involved in the other activities of the proposal.

proposals should take into due account all relevant ESFRI RI to exploit synergies and to ensure coherency in the EU RI landscape

proposals should address innovation capacity (technology transfer, participation of SMEs, instrumentation development), international dimension, management of generated data…

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INFRAIA-01-2016-17– Integrating Activities

for AC

Emphasis on innovation aspects, on widening trans-national and virtual access provision, on novelties with respect to previous grants, and, in particular for "super advanced" communities, on addressing the sustainability of the integrated RI services provided at European level through, e.g., the involvement of funders and the preparation of a business/funding plan beyond the end of the project.

Criteria for prioritisation in the MAP:

Contribution & support to other H2020 parts and/or to break-through research

Contribution to EU strategic priorities

Coverage of emerging needs

Previous GA timing and performance taken into account

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INFRAIA-02-2017– Integrating Activities

for SC

Emphasis on networking, standardisation and establishing a common access procedure for trans-national and/or virtual access provision.

All areas of science and technology considered

Proposals should not restrict their services to too narrow research fields and should address the wider scientific communities, even multidisciplinary ones, which can be served by the involved sets of RIs.

SC should organise the key Ris in their domain

Two-stage call as large oversubscription expected

Short proposal 20 pages, only proposals for 3 times the available budget

will pass to the second stage (full proposal)

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Call INFRAIA Summary

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Call INFRAINNOV - Fostering the

innovation potential of Research

Infrastructures

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INFRAINNOV-01-2017 – Fostering co-innovation for future detection and imaging technologies

Establishment of a novel research and innovation collaborative framework to support technology and innovation transfer from RI towards industrial partners and joint development of high-tech components

Total budget 20 M€- EU contribution per proposal (RIA) up to 20 M€

Financial support to third parties

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INFRAINNOV-02-2016 – Support to Technological

Infrastructures

Development of strategic agendas & roadmaps for key

technologies for the construction/upgrade of RI,

identification of potential markets, exchange of good

practices, …

Total budget 10 M€- EU contribution per proposal

(CSA) up to 2 M€

Expected to cover at least five different technological

domains of interest for pan European RI

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Call INFRAINNOV Summary

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Call INFRASUPP - Policy and

International cooperation

INFRASUPP-01-2016 – Policy and INCO measures for RI:

1.Synchronising and harmonisation of RI evaluation mechanisms and road-mapping

2.International landscaping exercise for RI

3.Bilateral cooperation on RI with Africa

4.Training needs of SESAME, Jordan

Total budget 8M€- EU contribution per proposal (CSA) 1.5 – 2 M€

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Call INFRASUPP - Policy and

International cooperation

INFRASUPP-02-2017 – Policy and INCO measures for RI

1.Development of a model describing the socio-economic leverage of RI

2.Cooperation between EU and strategic partners for the development of global RI

3.Support to RDA secretariat, participation of new communities and ESFRI RI and emergence of building blocks for interoperable data infrastructure (CNECT/RTD)

Total budget 6,5M€- EU contrib. per proposal (CSA) (1) & (2): up to 1.5 M€; (3): 3 - 3.5 M€

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Call INFRASUPP Summary

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Other actions

Presidency event: Launch of the 2016 ESFRI Roadmap

Dutch Presidency - 2016 first half

Total budget 0.1M€

External expertise

Reviewers, experts for the implementation of the EU R&I policies and ERA achievement, experts for H2020 interim evaluation and experts for ERIC evaluation

Total budget 0.8M€ in 2016

0.8M€in 2017

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e-Infrastructures

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Theme 1 - Integration and consolidation

Covers:

-  Coordination of operations and funding (regional, national & European levels)

-  Exploiting synergies between operational e-Infrastructures

-  Continuous upgrades of infrastructure without service disruption

Features:

-  TRL8 or above

-  Transnational and virtual access cost reimbursement

-  Documentation of services on an open Service Catalogue

-  Services to be assessed by an external board (approved by the EC)

-  Projects to conclude written collaboration agreements

Topics:

-  EINFRA-11-2016, EINFRA-12-2017 and EINFRA-8-2014 (GEANT)

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EINFRA-11-2016: Support to the next implementation phase

of Pan-European High Performance Computing

infrastructure and services (PRACE)

Focuses on cooperation with PRACE for the following (RIA):

1. Provide an efficient Europe-wide service to users, based on promoting

research excellence and innovation;

2. Activities (trainings, service prototyping, software development, etc.) that

build on national High Performance Computing (HPC)

3. Ensure openness to new user communities and new applications;

4. Working in synergy with the European Technology Platform for HPC

towards the next generation of computing systems, technologies and

applications;

5. Develop an international cooperation policy and associated activities in

the area of HPC for systems interoperation

6. To stay at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs

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EINFRA-12-2017: Data and Distributed Computing e-

infrastructures for Open Science

This topic covers two complementary areas of e-infrastructures very closely related with the objective to make research data discoverable, accessible, assessable, intelligible, useable, and wherever possible interoperable:

a) Secure and agile data and distributed computing e-infrastructures:

The challenge is to integrate at European level the geographically and disciplinary dispersed resources to achieve economies of scale and efficiency gains in providing the best data and computing capacity and services to the research and education communities

b) Access and preservation platforms for scientific information:

To support the integration at European level of a robust and sustainable e-infrastructure, based on existing initiatives across Europe

The building of capacity to link all kinds of digital research objects in order to enable a more transparent evaluation of research and reproducibility of results, enabling trust and facilitating access by innovative business actors.

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GÉANT Partnership projects

Within the GÉANT Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) awarded under topic EINFRA- 8-2014 of the e-Infrastructures call, the consortium will be invited to submit proposals for two Specific Grant Agreements:

a) Research and Education Networking:

Integration and consolidation of e-infrastructure platforms supporting European policies and research and education communities.

Only platforms and services based on systems and technologies that have achieved at least TRL 8 before the start of the project will be supported.

b) Trans-Atlantic submarine cable:

This action will directly support inter-continental research and education collaborations with long term low cost view, and will have extended socio-economic impacts for Europe notably in improving the connectivity of the major European internet exchanges and European databased services, helping addressing emerging markets in Latin America, Africa and East Asia.

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Type of Action: Specific Grant Agreement

Indicative budget: EUR 64.00 million from the 2016 budget

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Theme 2 – Prototyping innovative

platforms and services

Covers:

-  Evolution through innovative actions

-  Platform-driven innovation. Push from the supply side

-  User-driven innovation. Pull from the demand side

Features:

-  TRL6 at the beginning of the project; (at least) TRL8 by the end (except Public Procurement Innovative Solutions actions)

Topics:

-  EINFRA-21-2017, EINFRA-22-2016, EINFRA-8-2014 (GEANT) and FETFLAG-1-2014 (Human Brain Project)

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EINFRA-21-2017: Platform-driven e-infrastructure

innovation

Prepare the capacity required to future generations of e-infrastructure is the

key challenge. e-Infrastructure platforms and services need to evolve

through innovation actions to respond to the long-term needs of research

and education communities.

Proposals will address part (a) or (b), but not both:

(a) Support to Public Procurement of innovative HPC systems, PPI

(b) Research and Innovation Actions for e-Infrastructure prototypes

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Support to Public Procurement of innovative HPC

systems, PPI

(1) procurement of innovative solutions

(2) ensuring and reinforcing European access to European leading-edge supercomputing infrastructures and services

(3) diversify the available leading-class HPC capabilities through a rich set of HPC architectures featuring the most advanced technology made available by R&I (Research and Innovation) in Europe, in order to satisfy the needs of a wider range of users in very different key application areas

(4) contribute to the coordination of plans and procurements for the provision of leading-class HPC capabilities at European and national level in view of the implementation the European supercomputing strategy , encompassing funding and technical specifications

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Research and Innovation Actions for e-

Infrastructure prototypes

(1) Universal discoverability of data objects:

Prototyping an e-infrastructure service, based on standards and best-practices, for the uptake of a Digital Identifier e-infrastructure for digital objects (articles, datasets, collections, software, nomenclature, etc.), researchers and contributors, which cuts across geographical, temporal, disciplinary, cultural, organisational and technological boundaries, without relying on a single centralised system but rather federating locally operated systems to ensure interoperability

Budget: 4-5 EUR million per proposal

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Research and Innovation Actions for e-

Infrastructure prototypes

(2) Computing e-infrastructure with extreme large

datasets:

Develop service prototypes to cope with very large data

resources. It should include the basis software layers

supporting applications such as modelling, simulation,

pattern recognition, visualisation, etc. The developments

should be supported by robust mathematical methods and

tools.

Budget: 2.5-3 EUR million per proposal

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EINFRA-22-2016: User-driven e-infrastructure

innovation

Support user-driven design and prototyping of innovative e-infrastructure services and applications to meet the needs of those communities that push the envelope in scientific and technological domains requiring top-of-the range capacity in the long term. It is also important to promote multi-domain community-driven approaches to fully exploit core e-infrastructure services with high economic innovation potential.

Proposals will address parts (a) or (b), but not both:

(a) Exploitation of e-infrastructures for user-driven innovation and pilots responding to community specific challenges

(b) Innovation for Open Science e-infrastructures and services

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User-driven e-infrastructure innovation

(a) Exploitation of e-infrastructures for user-driven innovation and pilots responding to community specific challenges :

1. Support, through open e-infrastructure resources, specific requirements of European initiatives addressing societal challenges (e.g. on environment and marine sustainability, agriculture and biodiversity, health and human brain etc.)

Budget: 2-3 EUR million per proposal

2. To stimulate the innovation potential of innovative actors, SMEs in particular, either as suppliers of technologies and services for e-infrastructures or as users of e-infrastructures to improve their own product and service offering. The proposals shall involve actions led by innovative actors (SMEs) for which financial support will be granted (minimum 80% of the EU funding requested by the proposal)

Budget: 5-6 EUR million per proposal

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User-driven e-infrastructure innovation

(b) Innovation for Open Science e-infrastructures and services :

Reuse and improve (performance, quality, reputation, etc) the open

access repository and publishing platform infrastructure for prototyping

new infrastructure services in support of open science (e.g. new forms of

publishing, machine-assisted knowledge extraction services from

heterogeneous data resources and strengthening of machine readability

and other discovery services). Prototyping of open review and research

certification services engaging researchers, educators and students.

Budget: 1-2 EUR million per proposal

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Interactive Computing e-infrastructure for the

Human Brain Project FET Flagship (FPA)

Within the Human Brain Project, the selected consortium

will be invited to submit a proposal for a Specific Grant

Agreement (SGA) that will define and deliver the e-

infrastructure providing the interactive computing capacity

that the HBP Flagship needs in the context of its large brain

simulation activities.

Indicative budget: EUR 25.00 million from the 2017 budget

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Theme 3 – Policies and international

cooperation

Covers:

- European support to the Research Data Alliance

- Support to data dissemination and international cooperation in the context of the Square Kilometre Array project

- International Co-operation on e-infrastructure supporting major societal challenges

- Support to the e-IRG secretariat

- Support to dissemination for the e-infrastructure programme

- Support to small-size foresight roadmaps for the e-infrastructure

Programme

Topics:

-  INFRASUPP-03-2016, INFRASUPP-02-2017 (3)

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INFRASUPP-03-2016 : Support to policies and

international cooperation for einfrastructures

Research and Innovation Actions for International Co-operation on high-end eInfrastructure requirements

Coordination and Support Actions for international co-operation and policy development

Proposals will address one of the points below:

1. International Cooperation on e-infrastructure supporting major societal challenges

2. Policy support to e-infrastructure programme

3. Support to dissemination for the e-infrastructure programme

4. Support to small-size foresight roadmaps for the e-infrastructure programme

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INFRASUPP-02-2017 : Support to policies and

international cooperation for eInfrastructures (3)

European support to the Research Data Alliance:

Proposals are expected to support the development of global

interoperable research data infrastructures that will greatly benefit the

coordination at European level addressing all the points below:

(a) support to the RDA secretariat for logistics, open access to RDA reference

documents and dissemination activities

(b) support the emergence of building blocks of an open, interoperable data

infrastructure fostering interoperability across regions, organisations and

scientific disciplines

(c) support ESFRI infrastructures and new communities to engage in Open

Science and data sharing principles

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BUDGET OVERVIEW

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Budget overview:

Partners for Science and Technology

collaboration from the Black Sea

Region

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Example: ICT

1. INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

2. INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

3. LABORATORY OF MICRO-OPTOELECTRONICS, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOLDOVA

4. THE RESEARCH GROUP IN THE EXACT SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, STATE UNIVERSITY “B.P. HASDEU” FROM CAHUL

5. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE ELIRI JOINT-STOCK COMPANY

6. RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL NETWORKING ASSOCIATION OF MOLDOVA (RENAM)

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INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT

INSTITUTE

Address 5A, Academiei str., Chisinau, MD-2028, Republic of Moldova

Telephone (+373-22) 28-98-39

Fax (+373-22) 28-98-49

E-mail idsi@asm.md

Website www.idsi.md

Type: Public body (Research organization)

Key-words: Information society technologies, e-infrastructure, scientometrics, ICT

support & consultancy, digital content, ICT and R&D policies.

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Expertise

Analysis and design of ICT solutions for R&D management.

Performance of Scientometrics, webometrics & altmetrics studies, with

focus on the national R&D system.

Monitoring information society indicators in the Republic of Moldova.

Experience in ICT and R&D policy making and development, including

foresight studies.

International

cooperation

experience

Internation Visegrad Fund, FP7, Moldova-Romania, STCU Projects

Area of

interest:

Future and Emerging Technologies, Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions,

Research infrastructures, Twinning of research institutions, Science with

and for Society

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Romeo FAGUREL, H2020 Secure Societies & Research Infrastructures NCP

Center of International Projects, Academy of Sciences of Moldova

1 Stefan cel Mare Ave, Chisinau, Moldova, Office 515

Tel: +373 – 796 860 95, +373 – 685 999 29 , e-mail: romeo.fagurel@h2020.md

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