Scientific Data Infrastructure:activities in the Capacities Programme of FP7

Presentation at euroCRIS Workshop, Brussels 15 September 2009

"The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

Brussels, 15 September 2009

Carlos Morais PiresEuropean Commission - DG INFSO

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Communication to the Council and European Parliament

e-Science and e-Infrastructures to be priorities in Europe

Actively participating and influencing global partnerships in science

e-Science: what can Science do for us?

e-Infrastructures: what can we do for Science?

Coordination with EU Member States do put the strategy in practice

the part on scientific information/Data

Mobilization of the research communities

Next Call for Proposals (e-Infrastructures)

Outline

Highlighting the importance to embrace the e-Science paradigm shift

Highlighting the strategic role of e-Infrastructures as a crucial asset underpinning European research and innovation policies

Calling on Member States and the scientific communities, in cooperation with the European Commission for a reinforced and coordinated effort to further develop world class e-Infrastructures, which will enable the 21st century scientific discoveries

ICT infrastructures for e-Science: a recent Communication to European Institutions

Global scientific challenges with high societal impact

Big distances, big files, big processing

Spread of skills and competences across disciplines

Science and IC Technologies

e-Infrastructures changing Science, Scientists changing e-infrastructures

The ‘map of science’

Journal Nature: This map was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 published papers into 776 different scientific paradigms (shown as pale circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. […]

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Why e-Infrastructures?

Fostering Global Research Communities

Scientific Communities

• Geographically spread• Culture heterogeneity• Problem Complexity• Volumes of information• Quality of information• Incentives to share• Organisational barriers

e-Infrastructures

• Connectivity• Collaboration• Processing, Simulation• Repositories of data• Curation/Review• Trust• Knowledge advantage

To facilitate a rapid transition to e-Science, the European Commission and Member States have made significant investments in e-Infrastructures…

What can we do for Science…

Linking the ideas at the speed of the light:

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Accessing knowledge: scientific data

Innovating the scientific process: global virtual research communities

High Performance Computing: PRACE

Sharing the best resources: e-Science grid

Accessibility to research data is important for the:

good management of the public investment

creation of strong value chains of innovation

enhancement of value from international co-operation

Data policy aspects:

Information

Management of Repositories

Management of Access

Processing, Computation

Physical infrastructure

Repository services

Adapted from e-SciDR study

Orchestration within the European e-Science e-Infrastructure:

need for coordination all the elements and layers

In the Communication to the Council and EP, the Commission asks the involvement of EU Member States and key stakeholders to build robust, dynamic and innovative e-Infrastructures for scientific data

This cooperation started already by launching 15 projects (40 Mio Euro) and the FP7 Open Access Pilot

There is still a long way to go...

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Capacities4097 M€

JRC1751 M€

Ideas7510 M€

Euratom4062 M€

People4750 M€

Cooperation32413 M€

Dev. of policiesINCO

Sciencein Society

Research Infrastructures 42% - 1715 M€

SMEsResearch Potential

Regions of Knowledge

e-Infrastructures(ICT for Science)

572 M€

EU R&D programme: budget split

(FP7: 2007 - 2013)

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Call for proposals: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2

WP2010 (e-Infastructures)Publication: 30/07/2009 / Deadline: 24/11/2009

Support to existing research infrastructuresINFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1.2.1Distributed Computing Infrastructure

50 M€

INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1.2.2Simulation softwares & services

12 M€

INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1.2.3Virtual Research Communities

23 M€

Support to new research infrastructuresINFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2.3.1Construction of new infrastructures (PRACE first phase)

20 M€

INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-3.3Support to policy development and programme implementation

10 M€

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DRAFTDRAFT Planned CallPublication: 30/07/2009 / Deadline: 24/11/2009

Looking ahead

The emergence of "big data science" is there to stay and has a global dimension; It reflects the increasing value of observational and experimental data in virtually all fields of science

Europe is paying particular attention to the aspects of accessibility to scientific information, its quality assurance and preservation; It means developing an ecosystem of European Digital Repositories, federating and adding value to national and discipline-based repositories

Multi-disciplinary approaches, new participative paradigms and global research communities are an essential part of the strategy… but organisational, governance and financing models need reconsideration, informed by sociological and cultural considerations

Upcoming 7th Call of Research Infrastructures programme to provide support to the e-Science transition

We need to exploit the growing sensor/effector layer to make the world itself a real-time database.

(from the creativity machine, V. Vinge)

For further information

www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/