Lorenza Saracco, DG RTD-B ERA: Research Programmes and Capacity

Research Infrastructures Unit

Research Infrastructures under FP7 and

opportunities for marine sciences

Research Infrastructures under FP7 and

opportunities for marine sciences

ERA building blocks

Well-coordinated research programmes and priorities (joint programming)

Effective sharing of knowledge

Opening to the world through international cooperation in S&T

World-class research infrastructures

Single labour market for researchers

European Research

Area

Excellent research institutions and universities

Importance of Research Infrastructures for Europe

At the core of the Research, Innovation, Education triangle

Extending the frontiers of knowledge Supporting industrial innovation Exchanging and transmitting knowledge Training the next generation of top researchers

For their construction and operation: A European market of 9 billion Euro per year, with an annual growth of 5.5%

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)

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

and knowledge preservation

Includes Major scientific equipment Scientific collections, archives and structured

information ICT-based infrastructures Entities of a unique nature, used for research

Definition of Research Infrastructures

Research Infrastructures’

pattern is rapidly evolving in Europe

Share of RIs Built or Upgraded between 2001 and 2006

3,3

18,8

19,1

35,3

9,0

16,7

18,8

30,0

34,9

36,7

34,4

36,2

23,5

51,3

45,1

44,7

36,7

34,9

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

Energy

Humanities

Engineering

Social Sciences

Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics

Environmental, Marine, Earth Sciences

Material Sciences

Computer and data treatment

Biomedical and Life Sciences

% RIs

built within these 5 years

built before 2000 but upgraded since then

• 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…

Europe is faced with a wide spectrum of research infrastructure

issues

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 and others…

ESFRI European Strategy Forum

on Research Infrastructures

Towards a coherent policy for Research Infrastructures:

ESFRI A European Strategy Forum on Research

Infrastructures (launched in April 2002)

Brings together representatives of the 27 Member States, Associated States, and one representative of the European Commission (EC)

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

A Roadmap Report with 44 projects Worth ~20 B€ investments over the next ~10 years

Example: 7 pan-European projects identified to serve environmental Sciences in the 2006 ESFRI roadmap

AURORA BOREALIS

EURO-ARGOLIFEWATCHEMSO

IAGOS-ERI

Rep

ort

2006

European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures March 2009

Few more projects identified in the 2008 roadmap update, for example…

EPOSSIAEOS

EISCAT – 3D

Rep

ort

2008

European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures March 2009

EMBRC

FP7 Research Infrastructures actions

Existing Infrastructures

Design studies

New Infrastructures

Construction (preparatory phase; construction phase)

Integrating activities

e-infrastructures

ESFRIRoadmap

Policy Development / Programme Implementation

Preparatory phase projectsfor the Construction of New (or major Upgrade) of Pan European Research Infrastructures

• 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 phase

Preparatory Phase facilitating financial engineering

for new research infrastructures

Inclusion in Specific RTD

Programme(s)

Inclusion in other DGs

strategic plans

Stakeholdersincl. EIROs

Member States

Inclusion in national

Programmes

Projects

European Commission

EIBRSFF

34 of the 35 ESFRI projects supported

Integrating Activity in FP7

Continuation of the successful FP6 instrument “I3” 3 to 10 M€ (15 M€ in exceptional cases) up to 4 years

Collaboration of existing research infrastructures Normally all major RI’s in Europe in one field At least 3 MS or AS

Three types of activities are obligatory in one project

Networking Activities Trans-national Access and/or Service Activities Joint Research Activities

Trans-national Access and/or Service activities

Provide trans-national access to researchers or research teams to one or more infrastructures among those operated by the participants "Hands on" access Remote access: provision of reference material, sample analysis…

Remote access to distributed infrastructures: “trans-nationality” will not apply

Provide research infrastructures related services to the scientific community Access to scientific services freely available through

communication networks, e.g. databases available on the web

Trans-national Access and/or Service activities

(cont’d) Specific provisions for trans-national access

activities are defined in Annex III to the GA Access costs = unit cost x quantity of access provided

(will not exceed 20% of costs of providing total access to the installation over the duration of the project)

An estimated unit cost will be specified in Annex I EC financial contribution will be adjusted in the final

financial statement (Form C) based on real UC

Specific provisions for access to services freely available on Internet are defined in SP 17 EC financial contribution for access costs will not exceed

20% of operating costs incurred over the duration of the project

the services offered must be assessed periodically by an external board of international experts in the field, appointed by the project and approved by the Commission.

FP 7 future calls0verall strategy

Three calls for proposals for 2010-2013

A targeted approach For each of the calls, a list of defined

topics Each topic corresponding to one project,

e.g.: "Research Vessels", "Virus archives", "Historical archives“…

More topics will be published than can be funded to ensure competition

Identification of topics

A draft list of topics, based on: Scientific landscapes established by ESFRI RWGs Published national roadmaps (DK, FR, IE, NL, NO,

ES, SE, UK; as well as third countries such as AU, USA)

Other policy documents (CERN, SCAR, etc.) Currently funded I3/Integrating Activity projects

and Coordination Actions (FP6 and FP7) Input from last bottom-up calls A one-day workshop with 40 high-level experts Further input from other directorates / DGs /

Programme Committee

Outcome of the work

79 topics in 6 fields…divided in three calls Environmental sciences and non nuclear

energy Life sciences Mathematics, computer-related sciences,

data Social sciences and humanities Physics, astronomy, nuclear / particle physics Analytical facilities and engineering

Environmental sciences and energy 16 topics environment, 7 topics energy:

29% of the total of the number of topics!

Distribution of the topics between calls

Call A (WP 2010)Published Jul. 2009

Call B (WP 2011)Autumn 2010

Call C (WP 2012)Jan. 2012

35 topics

Expected number of funded projects: ~ 18-20

Budget: ~ 160 M€ Budget: ~ 100 M€ Budget: ~90 M€

21 topics

Expected number of funded projects: ~ 10

23 topics

Expected number of funded projects: ~ 12

WP 2010 (call A): environment

Topics for new communities (I3) include:

Long-term ecosystems research network of sites and experimental platforms, for multidisciplinary research and data collection

RI for polar research: interdisciplinary observation and monitoring stations including atmospheric, terrestrial and marine studies

RI for coastal research, including for integrated coastal zone management and planning

RI for water resource observation, water resource management, hydrological observation

WP 2011 (call B): environment

Topics with existing I3 projects in the RI program Multidisciplinary ocean, marine & coastal data centres RI for carbon cycle observation

Topics for new communities : Observatories and data centres for biodiversity research

WP 2012 (call C): environment Topics with existing I3 projects in the RI program

Research vessels Integrated marine stations supporting research on

aquatic ecosystems based on mesocosm studies RIs for earth systems modelling

I n d

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i v

e

RIs for Marine sciences FP6-FP7 projects

2005 20072006 201220092008 20112010 20142013

CeMACE 1 m€

FP6 I3

FP6 CNI/DS

BlackSeaSCENE, 2 m€ FP6 CA

SeaDataNet 8.7 m€

DesignAct 0.5 m€

Eurofleets 7.2 m€

Upg BlackS.Scene 3.4 m€

Mesoaqua 3.5 m€

FP7 I3

More than 52 M€

Euro Argo 3 m€

Aurora Borealis, 4.5 m€ FP 7 PPEMSO 3.9 m€

Assemble 8.7 m€

Geo-Seas 4.9 m€

FP7 - Call B: IA

FP7 - Call A: PP/IA

Conclusions

Research Infrastructure action support to Marine sciences

Well represented in the ESFRI roadmap FP7 funding of 3 « Preparatory Phase »

projects and more projects to come in the next call

FP7 funding of 4 « Integrating Activity » projects and one « e-Infrastructure » project

Future IA topics for the next FP7 calls for proposals

For further information

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