Italian Participation in FP7 Programme “Capacities Research Infrastructures”

Prof. Caterina PetrilloItalian Delegate to FP7 Capacities - Infrastructures Director of the Physics Department - University of

Perugia

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Results of the Calls 8 and 9 Overall performances

“Within the scope of this Community action, the term "research infrastructures" refers to facilities, resources and related services that are used by the scientific community to conduct top-level research in their respective fields. This definition covers: major scientific equipment or set of instruments; knowledge based-resources such as collections, archives or structured scientific information; enabling ICT-based infrastructures such as Grid, computing, software and communications; any other entity of a unique nature essential to achieve excellence in research. Such research infrastructures may be "single-sited" or "distributed" (a network of resources). This Community action will only consider the optimization, or emergence, of research infrastructures with a clear European* dimension and added value in terms of performance and access. These infrastructures must contribute significantly to the development of European research capacities”.

*or national with possible connections with European initiatives

Research Infrastructures in FP7 – Capacities

FP7 Research Infrastructures action

Existing infrastructures

Design studies

New infrastructures

Construction

(Preparatory phase; construction phase)

Integrating activities

e-Infrastructures

ESFRIRoadmap

Policy development / Programme implementation

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FP7 Research Infrastructures budget

 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Total (M€)

EUR27 operational credits

158 223 285 314 246 89 120 1435

Contribution to RSFF 40 0 30 30 50 40 10 200

Administrative expenses*

12 11 15 16 14 6 6 80

Total allocated budget

210 234 330 360 310 135 136 1715

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INDICATIVE PRIORITIES FOR FUTURE CALLS

Number of projects (total 284) and EU funding (total 1287 M€)

Calls 1 to 9

553

370

191

46 5770

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

IntegratingActivities

ICT-basede - Infra

Design Studies Preparatory Phase Implementation Policydevelopment

EU fu

ndin

g (M

€)

(73 projects)

(45)

(18)

(67)

(6)(75)

Call 8 - FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-1

Indicative total budget 163,45 M€Date of publication: 20 July 2010 Deadline: 25 November 2010

1.1 Support to existing research infrastructures

1.1.1 Integrating Activities ~ 103,95 M€1.1.2 ICT-based e-Infrastructures

1.2 Support to new research infrastructures

1.2.1 Design Studies ~ 20 M€

1.2.2 Construction of new infrastructures (or major upgrades) – implementation phase ~ 30 M€

1.2.3 Construction of new infrastructures (or major upgrades) - implementation phase

1.3 Support to policy development and programme implementation ~ 9,5 M€

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Integrating Activities ranked list (13)

Priority Proposal Coordinator

1 BioStruct-X DE

2 InGOS NL

3 CENDARI IE

4 LASERLAB-EUROPE DE

5 RadioNet3 DE

6 EPPN* (No IT participants) DE

7 BRISK SE

8 ECRIN-IA FR

9 NMI3-II FR

10 SeaDataNet II FR

11 TREES4FUTURE FR

12 HadronPhysics3 IT

13 H2FC DE

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Design Studies (4)Priority Proposal

AcronymCoord.

1 HiLumi LHC CH

2 ARISE FR

3 LAGUNA-LBNO CH

4 GROOM FR

Implementation Phases (9)

  Acronym Coordinator

1 CRISP FR

2 BioMedBridges DE

3 DASISH SE

4 ENVRI NL

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EATRIS

EMBRC

EU-Openscreen

ECRIN

Euro-Bio-imagingBSL4

BIOBANKS-BBMRI

EBI-ELIXIR

INFRAFRONTIER

INSTRUCT

Life Sciences

Implementation: BioMedBridges All ESFRI Life Sciences infrastructures, coordinated by

EMBL Interoperability across data sources and services

Environment Implementation: ENVRI

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

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

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

EPOS

EURO-ARGO

ICOS

SIOS

EMSOEISCAT

LIFE-WATCH

Physics and Astronomy Implementation: CRISP

All ESFRI Physics, Astronomy and Analytical infrastructures, coordinated by ESRF

Seeking synergies between 11 ESFRI Projects totalling more than 9 b€ investment volume

16 project partners from 12 MS with total op. budg.: 1.5 b€/y

SKA

ELI

XFEL

EUROFEL

ESRF

ESS

ILL upgrade

SPIRAL2

SLHC

ILC-HiGrade

FAIR

Support measures and ERA-NET (9)

  Acronym Coordinator

1 GO-SKA NL

2 SIDERI FR

3 ICAN* FR

4 INNET* DE

5 EIRIISS* UK

6 InfraCoMP DE

7 CReATIVE-B NL

8 SIM4RDM* UK

9 CoPoRI* DE

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CALL 8

Italian Performance - Infrastructures 2007 – 2010

Italian Performance - Infrastructures 2007 - 2010

Italian Performance - Infrastructures 2007 - 2011

Average success rate about 40% measured by either the ratio of financed to submitted or the ratio of funding received to funding asked for.

Average funding percentage 10% given by the ratio of budget received to the budget available, with some peaks in specific actions like Design Studies and ICT-based infrastructures.

Integrating Initiative – User Support ProgrammeCourtesy of EC, DG Research, Unit B.3

• 24 000 users • 19 000 users supported in their T&S• 22 500 supported trip• 225 000 supported days of stay• 3,7 billions of units of access

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DE 77

FR 54NL 43GB 40

SE 23

ES 14

Other countries

33

NO 25

IT 30

GR

IL

INO

FI 16

BE 10 CH IE

PL

ATHU DK

Supported Infrastructures/ Installations per countryCourtesy of EC, DG Research, Unit B.3

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

Organisation CountryNationality

User distributionCourtesy of EC, DG Research, Unit B.3

3,5

3,0

2,72,5

2,4 2,42,3

2,1 2,0 2,01,9 1,8 1,8 1,7 1,7 1,7 1,6 1,6 1,5 1,5 1,4 1,4

1,3 1,3 1,3

1,00,8

0,3

4.5

1,4

0,0

0,5

1,0

1,5

2,0

2,5

3,0

3,5

4,0

Number of supported users divided by total number of researchers in the country

Courtesy of EC, DG Research, Unit B.3

Conclusions

Integrating Activities & Design Studies

Good balance between scientific domains Targeted approach has stimulated some communities

towards the coordination of their efforts

However strong reduction of budget at EU level need to improve the coordination in Italian SSH and LS

communities for a better impact at European level need to develop coordinated vision and actions shared

by the various stakeholders

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Clear Strategy Promotion of excellence Optimization of existing resources Larger aimed investment in Research

Infrastructures

What is needed to improve the national performance in RI

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

Research Infrastructures on Europa websitehttp://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructur

es/

ESFRI on CORDIShttp://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/

Relevant information

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