Report 2006 19/10/2006 - Brussels Press Conference – European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures Eeva Ikonen Member of the ESFRI Executive Board European

19/10/2006 - Brussels Press Conference – European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures

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Eeva IkonenMember of the ESFRI Executive Board

European Roadmap for

Research Infrastructures

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What is ESFRI?

• A European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures

• Launched in April 02• Brings together

representatives of the 25 Member States,7 Associated States, and one representative of the European Commission (EC)

ESFRI European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures


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Role of ESFRI

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

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

• incubation role: to bring projects to a point where decisions by ministers are possible


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The Roadmap

• Mandate from the Council of Ministers,November 2004;

• The Roadmap is the result of two years of intensive work; about 1000 high-level experts were involved giving the end product credibility and quality.

• 200 projects have been evaluated

It is the beginning of an ongoing process


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• Addressing seven (7) fields of Research and major challenges

• Thirty Five (35) projects identified• Research community produced ideas that

will open up new and unexpected areas of knowledge

Some fields should be stimulated for further integration

The Roadmap (2)


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06Social Science and Humanities

CESSDAEROHS

ESS

DARIAHSHARE

CLARIN

6 Pro

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1. CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives) is a distributed RI provides access to data (21 countries in Europe)

1. CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) is to make language resources available (grid & semantic web technology

1. DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities) based on existing network, open access to cultural heritage of Europe

1. EROHS (European Resource Observatory for the Humanities and the Social Sciences) will operate both as a central and distrubuted facility; integration of data, technologies and policies

1. ESS (The European Social Survey) /27 European countries) produce data for researchers

1. SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirementin Europe) provides data for researhers


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06Environmental Sciences

AURORA BOREALIS

EURO-ARGO

EUFAR

LIFEWATCH ICOSEMSO

IAGOS-ERI

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1. AURORA BOREALIS (Research icebreaker) for deep drilling capability for use in extreme conditions in high latitude oceans

2. EMSO (European multidisciplinary seafloor obervation), a continuous monitoring system for environment and security

3. EUFAR , a Heavy-Payload fleet of airborne research in Environmental and Geo-Sciences

4. EURO-ARGO, a worlds wide in situ global ocean observing system based on autonomous profiling floats

5. IAGOS-ERI uses, as platforms, commercial passenger airgrafts and operate as a RI for regular observations of atmospheric composition

6. ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System), observational data of the greenhouse balance of Europe

7. LIFE WATCH, biodiversity RI brings together hardware, software and governance structures


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06Energy

HiPER

JHR3 P

rojects

IFMIF


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1. HIPER, a large scale laser system technology (lase-driven fusion)

1. IFMIF (International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility) is a accelerator- based very high flux neutron source utilising the deutron lithium-stripping reaction

1. Jules Horowitz Reactor, a new reactor to study materials and fuel behaviour under irradiation (tests for nuclear power plants)


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06Biomedical and Life Sciences

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY BIOBANKSCLINICAL TRIALS

EATRIS INFRAFRONTIER Upgrade of EBI

6 Pro

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1. EATRIS (European Advanced Translational RI in Medicine), translating basic discoveries into clinical practice

2. EUROPEAN BIOBANKING AND BIOMOLECULAR RESOURCES, a accessible network of existing and new biobanks and biomolecular resources

3. INFRAFRONTIER consists of 2 interlinked RIs (Phenomefronties and Archivefronties uppgrade of European Mouse Mutant Archive, EMMA)

4. INFRASTRUCTURES FOR CLINICAL TRIALS AND BIOTHERAPY interconnect existing national networks of clinical centres, access to data and registers

5. INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY INFRASTRUCURE consist of distributed Centres for Integrated Structural Biology

6. UPGRADE OF EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INFRASTRUCURE, data collection, storage etc shared resources in the life sciences


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06Material Sciences

ESS

ESRF

XFEL

ELI

ILL

IRUVX

PRINS

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1. ELI, applications of laser matter interaction, 3 branches: Ultra High Field Science to the nonlinear QED, Attosecond Laser Science, High Energy Beam

2. ESRF UPGRADE, The European Synchrothron Radiation Facility

3. ESS, EUROPEAN SPALLATION SOURCE FOR PRODUCING NEUTRONS, source of neutrons

4. EUROPEAN XFEL, The European X ray Free Electron Laser, production of intense, short pulses of X rays

5. ILL 20/20 UPGRADE, the reactor based based laboratory for source of slow neutrons for the study of condensed matter

6. IRUVX-FEL, the development of Free Electron Lasers, consortium of resources in Europe

7. PRINS, the Pan-European Research Infrastructure for Nano-Structures, RI arm to ENIAC European Technology Platform


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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics

European ELT

SKA

SPIRAL2

FAIR

KM3NeT

5 Pro

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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics

1. ELT- European Extremely Large Telescope

1. FAIR will provide high energy primary and secondary beams of ions of highest intensity and quality incl antimatter beam

1. KM3NeT, a deep-sea neutrino telescope for astronomy

1. SKA-Square Kilometre Array, a next generation radio telescope

1. SPIRAL2 delivering rare radioactive isotope beams, complementary to FAIR


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Particles and Space PhysicsInputs from e-IRG, ESA, CERN

EUHPC (e-IRG)

The CERN Council strategy for particle physicsThe ESA Cosmic Vision


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Critical Issues

• Developing transferable financial and legal structures for pan-European Research Infrastructures

• Ensuring the human capacity is available and making it easier for researchers to move from one project to another

• Interfaces with Technology Platforms• Collaboration with ERC


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More is to come

• Implementation of the Roadmap:

some of the projects will be in place already next year

• Strengthening the European Research Area:

Research Infrastructures as majorcornerstones

• Continuation of the ESFRI work:

ESFRI encourages constructive debate

Documents

Report 2006 19/10/2006 - Brussels Press Conference – European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures Eeva Ikonen Member of the ESFRI Executive Board European