Research Infrastructures Infodays in Greece maria doukacec eu

Research Infrastructures Infodays in Greece maria. douka@cec. eu. int December 20 and 21, 2004

Definition of Research Infrastructures “Facilities and resources that provide essential services to the research community in both academic and/or industrial domains” • “single-sited” - single resource at a single location • “distributed” - a network of distributed resources, including Research Infrastructures based on Gridtype architectures • “virtual” - the service being provided electronically

Examples of Research Infrastructures • • • Singular large-scale research installations Collections, bio-banks, special habitats Libraries, databases Integrated arrays of research installations Communications networks, computing facilities • Infrastructural centres of competence US Canada China Japan Korea Ne. DAP SILK Brazil

Research Infrastructures in FP 6

Objectives of the Research Infrastructures programme • Promote the development of a fabric of research infrastructures of the highest quality and performance in Europe • Promote their optimum use on a European scale, based on the needs of the research community

Former actions • Under FP 2 and FP 3: projects supporting Transnational Access to major Research Infrastructures • Under FP 4 and FP 5: also networking and research projects

FP 6 actions for Research Infrastructures (Area / Instrument) • For existing infrastructures: - TA - Transnational Access (SSA) - IA - Integrating Activities • Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives : I 3 • Co-ordination Actions : CA - CND - Communication Network Development (I 3, CA, SSA) • For new or major upgrade of infrastructures: - DS - Design Studies (SSA) - CNI - Construction of New Infrastructures (SSA) • AM - Accompanying Measures (SSA)

Conditions for a EC support • Scientific and Technological excellence (in any field of Science and Technology) • Major Research Infrastructures (worldclass service) • Need expressed by the scientific community • European added value

The Research Infrastructures Call 1: Transnational Access and Integrating Activities (17 Dec. 2002) Call 7: Grids (11 May 2005) Call 6: Consolidating Initiatives (15 Dec. 2004) 25 55 225 M€ Call 5: Transnational Access, Integrating Activities and AM (4 Nov. 2004) 145 50 Call 4: Design Studies, Construction of New Infrastructures and AM (11 Nov. 2003) 138 100 Call 2: Grids (17 Dec. 2002) Call 3: Géant (6 June 2003)

The current call FP 6 -2004 -Infrastructures-5

FP 6 -2004 -Infrastructures-5 Call outline (1) • Publication date: 4 November 2004 All fields of S&T are covered • Call deadline: 3 March 2005 Electronic submission only / Pre-notification • • • Remote evaluation: Panel meetings: Results: Negotiations: First contracts: March - April 2005 Brussels, 9 -13 May 2005 available in July Sept. 2005 – Dec. 2005 January 2006

FP 6 -2004 -Infrastructures-5 Call outline (2) • Indicative budget: 145 million € – Integrating Activities (CA, I 3): 126 million € – Transnational Access (SSA): 17 million € – Accompanying Measures (SSA): 2 million € • Expected proposals: 150 – Integrating Activities (CA, I 3): 50 – Transnational Access (SSA): 70 – Accompanying Measures (SSA): 30 • 3 ranking lists

Evaluation procedure • Expert evaluators: 90 (+ Chairman + Independent Observer) • 5 thematic sub-panels for Integrating Activities and Transnational Access • One multidisciplinary subpanel for Accompanying Measures

Evaluation criteria • General criteria: – Relevance to the objectives of the programme – Scientific and Technological excellence – Quality of the management – European added value • More details in the revised Work Programme

Evaluation criteria • Results from previous calls taken into account How? As an example: for I 3 s, criterion 3 of the evaluation (Fundamental Objectives) will include the extent to which infrastructures involved in similar activities have been funded in the contracts from the earlier call for Transnational Access and Integrating Activities

Transnational Access - SSA • To support opportunities of access to individual major infrastructures (rare in Europe), for transnational user groups • Financing covers up to 100% of the Access, Travel & Subsistence, and other related costs • Contracts Typically 36 to 48 months EC contribution 100 to 750 k€ per year, not exceeding 20% of the operating costs of the infrastructure

Integrating Activities - I 3 • To integrate the European infrastructures of a specific scientific community, promoting their coherent use and development • 3 mandatory groups of activities: – Networking Activity to catalyse co-ordination and cooperation (common databases, virtual facilities, setting common protocols, training users…) – Transnational Access to one or more infrastructures – Joint Research Activities to improve (in quality and quantity) the service provided

Integrating Activities - I 3 • Financing covers: – Up to 100% of the Networking activities – Up to 100% of the Access, T&S and related costs – Up to 50% of the Joint Research activities costs • Contracts Typically 48 to 60 months EC contribution of several millions € (average: 12) 25 -200 k€/year for each N. A. 100 -750 k€/year for each T. A. 0. 4 -5 M€ for each J. R. A.

Integrating Activities - CA • To integrate the European infrastructures from a given class, by promoting their coherent use and development • Networking activities only • Financing up to 100% • Contracts Typically 48 to 60 months EC contribution of a few millions € (average: 1. 8) 25 -200 k€/year for each Networking Activity

Accompanying Measure - SSA • To sustain existing or future mechanisms for a coordinated approach to Research Infrastructures in Europe • Financing up to 100% • Contracts Typically 12 to 36 months EC contribution 50 -100 k€, for each measure

Accompanying Measure - SSA • Database studies • Foresight studies • Exploratory workshops • Round-table workshops

Main differences between the new call 5 and previous calls • I 3: – All three activities (Networking, Access, Joint Research) are mandatory • AM: – Round-table workshops not supported • General: – Final threshold increased – Some specific evaluation criteria modified (see revised Work Programme) – Results from previous calls taken into account

AM, TA, CA and I 3 projects selected in previous calls

Domain: Engineering, Energy & Nanotechnologies Acronym Area Instrument / Scheme EUROMAGNET High magnetic fields I 3 MNT EUROPE Micro Nano Technologies I 3 WISSMC Braun Submicron Center for research on semiconductor materials, devices & structures TA HIGH FIELD RESEARCH High magnetic fields installation TA ENGAS Environmental Gas Management TA SOLFACE High Flux SOLar FACilities for Europe TA SUSPOWER Sustainable Thermal Power Generation TA

Domain: Physics and Analytical facilities Acronym Area Instrument / Scheme RADIONET Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe I 3 OPTICON Optical-Infrared Co-ordination Network for Astronomy I 3 ILIAS Infrastructures for Astroparticle Science I 3 Hadron. Physics Study of Strongly Interacting Matter I 3 CARE Coordinated Accelerator Research in Europe I 3 EURONS EUROpean Nuclear Structure I 3 LASERLABEUROPE Integrated European Laser Laboratories I 3 IA-SFS Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Science I 3 NMI 3 Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy I 3 EU-ARTECH Conservation of the European Cultural Heritage I 3 EUROPLANET European Planetology Network CA ULTI Ultra Low Temperature Installation TA High Pressure The Structure and Properties of Materials at High Pressure TA

Domain: Life Sciences and Biotechnologies Acronym Area Instrument / Scheme EMMAINF European Mouse Mutant Archive Infrastructure I 3 ENSCONET European Native Seed Conservation Network CA MAX-INF 2 Macromolecular Crystallography Infrastructure CA

Domain: Environment and Earth Sciences Acronym Area Instrument / Scheme SYNTHESYS Collections and analytical facilities in Natural Sciences I 3 EUFAR European fleet for airborne research in the field of environment and geo-sciences I 3 EUROCHAMP Simulation chambers for investigating atmospheric processes I 3 OASIS Optimising Access to SPOT infrastructure for Science TA ALOMAR EARI Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmosphere Research TA COSTAR Coal-mine Sites for Targeted Remediation Research TA SALVADORE Seismic Analysis of the Lithosphere TA ATANS Access To Abisko Scientific Research Station (ANS) TA

Domain: Computational Sciences, Mathematics, Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities Acronym Area Instrument / Scheme HPC-EUROPA High Performance Computing I 3 IHES Euro-prog mathematics, theoretical physics and other sciences TA NEURALCOMP Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation TA DIECM Disseminating the integrated European Census Microdata AM CIECM Coordinating the Integration of the European Census AM Microdata

Success rates for Integrating Activities and Transnational Access (call 1) 13/36 7/29 34/ 154 8/42 3/26 3/21

FP 6 -2005 -Infrastructures-6 and FP 6 -2005 -Infrastructures-7 Communication network development (managed by DG INFSO) • 6: Consolidating initiatives (I 3, CA, SSA) – Closing 17 March 2005; budget: 25 million € – for user communities and for supporting international issues & science-related e. Infrastructure policies • 7: Grid (I 3, CA, SSA) initiatives – Closing 7 September 2005; budget: 55 million € – should link and build upon existing ones in the same area

Further information • Information on Research Infrastructures http: //www. cordis. lu/infrastructures/ • Call FP 6 -2004 -Infrastructures-5 http: //fp 6. cordis. lu/infrastructures/calls. cfm • FP 6 funded projects (Infrastructures) http: //www. cordis. lu/infrastructures/projects. htm • Activities managed by DG INFSO http: //www. cordis. lu/ist/rn/home. html

The Research Infrastructures in FP 7

One of the 6 major axes in FP 7 Joint research initiatives Stimulation of Competition for Human potential collaboration excellence + Scientific infrastructures Coordination between MS

Research Infrastructures in FP 7: Two main lines of action • Continuation and improvement of the current (mainly “bottom-up”) approach for optimizing the access to and the use and performance of existing infrastructures • Implementation of a “strategic” approach for developing new infrastructures of pan-European interest

• Continuation, improvement and reinforcement of the existing schemes To optimise the use of infrastructures and to improve their performance § Access to research infrastructures § Integrating activities (networking, coordinated access, research activities) § Communication Network Development § Design Studies (for new infrastructures) • Call for proposals and selection of proposals through a peer review system

The “strategic” approach Support for the development of future Research Infrastructures of EU interest based on: • A strategic long term vision for Research Infrastructures – roadmap(s) • More targeted support for specific research infrastructure projects • Increased use of financial engineering mechanisms to support such new infrastructures

A clear vision of the needs for new research infrastructures in the medium–long term should be defined as well as a corresponding roadmap. The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) will play a major role in this context.

European roadmap for Research Infrastructures § ESFRI will develop a roadmap for construction of new RIs for the next 10 -20 years § With a transparent methodology, recognized by all stakeholders § Using agreed criteria (European dimension, needs of the scientific community, technological feasibility, …) § Continuous process, with annual updates First results expected by mid 2005

ESFRI working method § 3 Steering Groups are being set up : - Physical Sciences and Engineering - Biological and Medical Sciences - Social Sciences and Humanities § A fourth group was already existing : - e. IRG, for e-Infrastructures § Dedicated Expert Groups may be set up Inputs also from national roadmaps, studies, industrial representative bodies, EIROforum, ESF, WHO, …

List of priority projects § Established by the Commission on the basis of the roadmap - “balanced”, periodically updated - with justifications for each pan. European project § Using clear criteria (potential impact -Lisbon objectives, reduced fragmentation of efforts -, European partnership, timeliness, readiness, budgetary planning, quality of management, …)

The operational mechanism A two-stage process within FP 7 : § Preparatory phase - through restricted calls targeted to the list of priority projects - for construction plans, legal organisation, management structure, … § Implementation phase - following successful first phase - for concrete construction and

An active Commission’s role § Acting as a facilitator for the overall projects - leveraging and catalysing action - financial engineering - legal framework… § Coordinating the Community instruments (Framework Programme, Structural Funds, EIB) and assessing consistency of actions § Ensuring a close monitoring of the projects

Suggested calendar to consolidate an EU policy on RIs 1. Agreement on the approach November 2004 2. Consolidation of work December 2004 3. Analysis of current activities, vision for the future 4. Analysis of roadmap for new RIs and of operational mechanisms 5. Towards a Council resolution and presentation of specific programmes Spring 2005 Summer 2005 Autumn 2005

Further information • ESFRI http: //www. cordis. lu/era/infrastructures_forum. htm • Future of Research – preparing FP 7 http: //www. cordis. lu/era/fp 7. htm http: //www. cordis. lu/infrastructures/

Creating synergies between the Framework Programme and the Structural Funds The BONUS scheme

Reference to the « Bonus » Scheme in FP 6 “In the case of regions lagging in development, when a project receives the maximum intensity of co-financing authorised under this Programme or an overall grant, an additional contribution from the Structural Funds, pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/99 of 21 June 1999 laying down general provisions on the Structural Funds, could be granted. ” Decision No 1513/2002/EC, Annex III. 2 Detailed Rules for Financial Participation by the Community

Activities financed by the Structural Funds: the example of Infrastructures • Construction, development and modernisation of infrastructure for scientific research at the university level, i. e. : libraries, laboratories and other facilities, • Development or research parks and applied research centres for implementation of advanced technology Also… • Establishing and developing business incubator or technology transfer centres, • Equipment aimed at applied research linked to industry, • Support for innovative enterprises located in science and technology parks.

Next steps • New regulation on the Structural Funds: to be adopted and published in the OJ in 2005 • The preparation of the Guidelines document: starting in 2005, will be published as a Communication from the Commission • Urgency to raise awareness of organisations in charge of structural funds towards research needs and related projects in your region, • Communication to be eased between different parts of national administration responsible for the management of the two different funds The available financial resources could be increased via the harmonisation of the planning for the use of the two funds

Conditions of Eligibility for Applying to the « Bonus » Scheme You have to be: • an FP 6 contractor • established in Objective 1 Region You have to respect: • Structural Funds and State Aids Regulations • Rules governing the 6 th Framework Programme You have to take: • Direct Contact with the Structural Funds Managing Authority in your country or region: http: //europa. eu. int/comm/regional_policy/ma nage/authority_en. cfm

Further information • Regions and Structural Funds http: //europa. eu. int/comm/regional_policy/sources /docoffic/official/communic/comm_en. htm http: //www. cordis. lu/era/knowreg. htm http: //www. cordis. lu/era/regions. htm http: //www. innovating-regions. org/