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NCSR “DEMOKRITOS”, AthensOctober 10, 2014

Research infrastructures in Russia: current status, problems and prospects for development

Research infrastructures in Russia: current status, problems and prospects for development

Marine MelkonyanCoordinator of NCP for Research Infrastructures

The National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”

Marine MelkonyanCoordinator of NCP for Research Infrastructures

The National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”

Contents

Research Infrastructures in Russia. Skolkovo, Rosnano

Mega science and FP7 projects in the fieldof Research Infrastructures with Russian partners

Current status of Research Infrastructures in Russia

Definition and Significance of Research Infrastructures

Promoting Russian-European ResearchInfrastructure Partnership. Some proposals

Research infrastructures are facilities, resources and services that are used by the research communities to conduct research

and foster innovation

Include:

Major scientific equipments (or sets of instruments) Knowledge-based resources such as collections, archives or

scientific data e-infrastructures, such as data and computing systems and

communication networks Any other infrastructure of a unique nature essential to achieve

excellence in R&I

Definition of Research Infrastructures (RIs)

Research Infrastructures in Russia Interactive map

253 Joint Use Centers (JUCs) in

7 Federal districts

110 Unique Scientific Equipment & Complexes (USE&C)

Interactive map and database of JUCs are available: http://www.ckp-rf.ru

1990s - 2002: Establishing the National Network

of JUCs: the main supporter the Russian

Foundation of Basic Research (RFBR)

Current status of Research Infrastructures in Russia - I

2002-2006: A new impetus was given in the frame of the Federal Targeted Programme R&D in priority areas of S&T

2007- 2012: Development of JUCs in the frame of the “Assistance in the

Development of Joint Use Centers of Scientific Equipment” activity 5 of the

FTP R&D in priority fields of the S&T Complex of Russia:

Development of Infrastructure for Nano-Industry in the RF

New innovative instruments ROSNANO (2007) and SKOLKOVO (2010)

2014 – 2020: Support of JUCs within a new FTP R&D in priority fields of the S&T complex of Russia with focusing on the international cooperation

Recent History

Current status of Research Infrastructures in Russia – II (main R&I instruments)

2014 – 2020: Support of JUCs within a new FTP R&D in priority fields of the S&T complex of Russia with focusing on the international cooperation

Skolkovo Innovation Centre

The strategic goal is to concentrate international intellectual capital, thereby stimulating the development of break-through projects and technologies

The Skolkovo Foundation and its partners transform the infrastructure, resources and other possibilities into effective services for companies that are project participants

5 clusters within the Skolkovo project are created, each one developing innovative projects

IT ClusterOver 172

companies

BiomedicalCluster

Energy Efficient

Technologies

Nuclear Technologies

Space Technology and Telecommunicati

ons

http://www.sk.ru/

Rosnano. Support of infrastructure

www.themegallery.com

4 yearswork

130 projects

BUDGET ~ € 15 billion

ROSNANO encourages development of an innovation infrastructure:

-nanotechnology centers of excellence, -business incubators,-the early investment funds

The combination of these elements assists to overcome barriers present in the innovation process such as: market, technology, interdisciplinary, geographical barriers.

ROSNANO Foundation for Infrastructure

and Educational Programs

Innovative Infrastructure: Bridge between science and business

Average financing of Nanotechnology Center project:Investments in equipment ― € 29 millionsInvestments in operational budget (3-5 years) ― € 6 millionsNumber of start-up created (5 years) ― 50By 2015, RUSNANO launch the start-up of 12-15 Nanotechnology Centers, creating 400 new technology start-ups

Funding of Nanotechnology Center programme

www.themegallery.com

Need of Research Infrastructures of global interest (reasons)

High cost and complexity of the needed infrastructure

The global scope of the scientific challenge (e.g. the better understanding of health or environment problems, which requires harmonization of methods of methods and standards)

The size of the problem (or of the solution)

Standardization and integration of data collected in different countries

The availability of e-infrastructures for data collection is an essential element of the international and global RIs

www.themegallery.com

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research JINR, Dubna

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) is an international intergovernmental scientific research organisation established in 1956

It is situated in Dubna not far from Moscow in the Russian Federation

JINR has 18 Member States: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam; Agreements are signed on the governmental level with Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Serbia and the Republic of South Africa

The main fields of JINR's activity are theoretical and experimental studies in elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, and condensed matter physics.

The research policy of JINR is determined by the Scientific Council, which consists of eminent scientists from the Member States as well as famous researchers from China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Switzerland, the USA, and the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN)

http://www.jinr.ru/section.asp?sd_id=39

International Megaprojects with the Russian participation

http://www.kiae.ru/pages/main/5354/5917/index.shtml

International thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER)

http://www.iter.orgEuropean XFEL (http://www.xfel.eu/en/)

The Large Hadron Collider (http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html)

Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR)

http://www.fair-center.de/index.php?id=1A large volume detector for low energy neutrino spectroscopy Borexino

www.themegallery.com

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

ITER’s member states:the EU (is contributing 45 %),India, Russia (9%), China, South Korea, Japan, United States

Construction of the facility began in October 2007The first plasma is expected to be produced in 2019

An international nuclear fusion research and engineering project, which is currently building the world's largest and most advanced experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor Web-site: http://www.iter.org

The European XFEL (I)

The European XFEL is being realized as a joint effort of many partners

12 countries are participating in the project (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland)

Construction started in early 2009: Commissioning is planned for 2015

Costs amount 1082 million Euro: 54% Germany, 23% Russia,

the other international partners between 1 and 3.5%

The European XFEL will generate ultra short X-ray flashes (27 000 times per second)

Website: http://www.xfel.eu/en/

The European XFEL (II)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a world’s largest particle accelerator near Geneva

The LHC accelerator was originally conceived in the 1980s and approved

for construction by the CERN Council in late 1994

It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) from 1998 to 2008

Preparations for experiments was conducted under the general “Agreement between CERN and the Government of Russia on participation in construction of the LHC”

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html

Facility for Antiprotonand Ion Research (I)

The FAIR accelerator centre is one of the largest projects for basic research in physics worldwide

FAIR will be built in Darmstadt

Right from the beginning in the year 1999 the FAIR project has been a cooperation of various international research and technical institutes

Partners: Germany, Spain, Finland, France, India, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Slovenia

Russia signed the FAIR Communiqué on the occasion of the official launch of the FAIR project on 7 November 2007 in Darmstadt and declared its contribution to the FAIR construction to be 178.05 M€.

http://www.fair-center.de/index.php?id=1

Facility for Antiprotonand Ion Research (II)

The State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom“ is the Russian funding agency in FAIR

The Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) for FAIR organizes the Russian activities in the FAIR GmbH

The Russian institutions participate in construction of all FAIR accelerators

The Russia is responsible for the development and delivery of many key

components within the FAIR experiments:

In PANDA project Russia participates in construction of superconducting solenoid

Seven Russian institutions contribute to the NUSTAR project

The Russia is a major participant of the HEDgeHOB experiment

Borexino Borexino is an experiment performed by an international collaboration

and located in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS)

Borexino physics program is centered on Solar Neutrino Physics, but also includes other relevant topics in low background neutrino detection and underground physics

Partners: Italy, Germany, France, Russia, USA, Poland, Ukraine Russian partners: Russian Scientific Centre "Kurchatov Institute“,

J.I.N.R. Dubna, B. P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of RAS; Lomonosov Moscow State University - Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics

http://borex.lngs.infn.it/

Borexino. The Italian partners

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Sezione di Ferrara

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Sezione di Genova

LNGS - Gran Sasso National Laboratory

Assergi (AQ)

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Milano

Dipartimento di Chimica Universita

degli Studi di Perugia

354 projects FP7-INFRA supported by EC 26 projects with 50 Russian organizations

Acronyms: EURORIS-NET, NMI3, PRE-XFEL, SEADATANET, FAIR,

ERICON-AB, HIPER, EUCARD, MONDILEX, EGI-INSPIRE, VAMDC,

DEGISCO, SIOS-PP EUROPLANET RI NMDB, HILUMI LHC, PESI,

EUCARD, SEADATANET II, ORIENTPLUS GLORIA LAGUNA-LBNO

UP-GRADE BS-SCENE

FP7 projects in the area of Research Infrastructures with Russian partners

The development of mega-science projects in Russia

Mega-science projects are not only about the prestige of a nation They help focus resources on priority areas, and to make

breakthroughs first in fundamental science and then in technology Through implementation of such mega science projects, Russia

can deal with the most crucial staffing problem and fight the brain drain

Russia will get six major research installations in the near-distant future selected from 28 applications

Each of six projects suggested for realization in Russia will need over 1.5 bullion rubles of government funding and will be completed in 10 years or less

Government should start by drafting a roadmap for each of the proposed projects

http://mon.gov.ru/press/reliz/8629/ www.themegallery.com

6 mega science projects in Russia

Tokamak fusion reactor called IGNITOR (Russia-Italy joint project open to accession of other international partners),

Troitsk Institute for Innovation & Fusion Research (TRINITI). High-flux research nuclear reactor (PIK)

St.-Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics in Gatchina (in

partnership with Germany and with probable involvement of North

European and Baltic States). Synchrotron light source, Multiturn Accelerator-Recuperator Source

(MARS), National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" NICA, Nuclotron based Ion Collider Facility, Joint Institute for Nuclear

Research, Dubna. Sub-Exawatt Laser based International Research Centre on Extreme

Light Fields, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS), Nizhny Novgorod

Electron-Positron Collider Super C-Tau Factory Project,

Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk. www.themegallery.com

Established::: 22nd February 2007 by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science on the basis of the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (MISIS)

Main mission: to facilitate the cooperation between EU and Russia in the field of Research Infrastructures.

FP7 Research Infrastructures National Contact Point

Events organized by FP7- RI NCP in Europe

The 1-st International Workshop-Exhibition “Strategy of Development of Large-scale Research Infrastructures of the Russian Federation & Cooperation with the European Union”, Athens, Greece, September 2008

The 2-nd International Workshop-Exhibition “Strategy of Development of Large-scale Research Infrastructures of the Russian Federation & Cooperation with the European Union”, the Russian Center of Science and Culture, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2009

The 3-d International Workshop “Strategy of Development of Large-Scale Research Infrastructures of the Russian Federation & Cooperation with the European Union”, Nancy, France, October 2010

The 4-th International Seminar "EU Russian Open Days", Vienna, Austria, October 25-26, 2011

Organizers: FP7 RI NCP, National University of Science and Technology «MISIS»

ERC / Ideas NCP; Center for Advanced Studies of the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University

The objective of the Conference is to discuss trends, challenges and opportunities of EU-Russia R&D and Innovation collaboration. The major focus is set on describing the existing European innovation policy instruments, sharing the experience of some most innovative EU countries.

European Network of NCPs for Research Infrastructures moving

forward Project acronym: EuroRIs-Net+ Programme acronym: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES Project reference: 283663 Duration: from 2011-10-01 to 2013-09-30 Subprogramme area: INFRA-2011-3.5. Trans-national co-operation

among NCPs Contract type: Coordination and support actions EU contribution: EUR 949 984

http://www.euroris-net.eu/

EuroRIs-Net+ network consists of the 16 beneficiaries of the Grant Agreement Nr. 283663

and the 20 Extended RI NCP Team Members

Enhancing the bilateral S&T partnership with the Russian Federation. BILAT-RUS

Acronym of project: BILAT-RUS

Duration: from 2008-09-01 to 2012-08-31

Project reference: 222618

Programme acronym: FP7-INCO

Subprogramme area: INCO-2007-2.1 Bilateral coordination for the enhancement and development of S&T Partnerships

EU contribution: EUR 492 888

Partners: Germany (2), Austria (2), France (1) & Russia (5) + 4 Russian NCPs as associated partners

Coordinator: International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research at the Project Management Agency c/o German Aerospace Center (DLR)

BILAT-RUS

BILAT-RUS focuses on enhancing the bilateral S&T Partnership between Russia and the EU Member States, Candidate Countries and other Associated Countries.

The project aims at contributing to the sustainable implementation of the Common Space on Research, Education and Culture between the EU and Russia and at further strengthening the participation of Russia in Community programmes – most prominently the FP7.

Strategy: Improving the process of providing information on programs and funding

designed to promote cooperation between Europe and specific third countries;

Better identifying and demonstrating mutual interest and benefit in S&T cooperation;

Sharing best practices via joint fora and presenting the state-of-the-art and the prospects for cooperation in particular fields.

How to contact FP7 RI NCP

Research Infrastructures NCPContact information

Dr. Marine Melkonyan (Coordinator)

Research Infrastructures NCP

National University of Science and Technology «MISIS»

119049 Moscow, Leninsky prospect, 4

Tel.: +7 9167079257

Fax.: +7-499-236-21-05

E-Mail: fp7-infra@misis.ru;

Web:fp7-infra.misis.ru