Oct 2009 – Hervé PERO, European Commission VLVvT 09 Athens meeting The EU and Global issues
Jan 11, 2016
Oct 2009 – Hervé PERO, European Commission
VLVvT 09 Athens meetingThe EU and Global issues
Basics of the development of the European Research Area
The ERA concept combines:• a European "internal market" for
research, where researchers, technology and knowledge freely circulate;
• an effective European-level coordination of national and regional research activities, programmes and policies;
• initiatives implemented and funded jointly.
World-class research infrastructures
Key element of the Lund declaration adopted on 8 July 09
- Essential for Europe’s researchers to stay at the forefront of research development
- Key component of Europe’s competitiveness in “frontier” research
Key Challenges:
- Overcoming fragmentation in Europe- Coping with increasing costs / complexity - Improving efficiency of (and access to)
research infrastructures services, incl. e-infrastructures
• Political willingness to develop RIs of pan-European (and international) interest…
• Critical mass (scale & scope) to raise attractiveness of ERA…
Europe faces two main challenges…
… but there is NO « one size fits all » solution
RIs of pan-European interest require professional management throughout their life-cycle (from preparation to decommissioning).
This entails a wide range of activities as RIs not only provide access to highly sophisticated equipment; they also train people, participate in technology development, and may be responsible for establishing standard operation procedures
Extract of the 2007 ERA expert group
This is even more true if we want an ‘eco-system’
of Research Infrastructures within ERA
a) Large (single-sited) facilitiesb) Distributed European Facilitiesc) Network of national facilities
Based on a) a consistent roadmap
from the European stakeholdersb) Links with universities & schoolsc) Network of industrial suppliers /
users
Support given by FP7 Research Infrastructures
action
Existing infrastructures
Design studies
New infrastructures
Construction ( Preparatory phase; implementation phase)
Integrating activities
e-Infrastructures
ESFRIRoadmap
Policy development / Programme implementation
( call FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1)
Physical Sciencesand Engineering
SPIRAL2
PRINS
ELI
SKA
CTAE-ELT
KM3NeTFAIR
8 projects
Links with other ESFRI projects,
such as EMSO…
• Design Study: EC contribution €5 million
45 months (end Oct. 2009), total costs ~ M€ 17.6) Design for a cubic-kilometre sized deep-sea neutrino telescope (evaluation of procedures for assembly and construction; models for operation and maintenance)
• Preparatory phase: EC contribution €9 million
48 months (end Feb. 2012), total costs ~ M€ 13) Towards a pan European facility; legal, governance and financial engineering; international networking; integration with regional and global marine and environmental systems (in particular EMSO)
EC support to KM3NeT
1) The Preparatory Phase help mainly facilitating
pooling of resources for new research infrastructures
Inclusion in Specific RTD
Programme(s)
Inclusion in REGIO / DG DEV strategic plans
Stakeholdersincl. EIROs
Member States
Inclusion in national
Programmes
Projects
European Commission
EIBRSFF
Up to now 34 ESFRI projects are supported+ 10 to come…
Construction + operational costs !
New Research Infrastructurescurrent Preparatory phases
MoUs between Member States?
2) Integrating Activity also help the development of
critical mass, distributed facilities all over Europe
Collaboration of existing research infrastructures
Three types of obligatory activities Networking Activities Trans-national Access and/or Service
Activities Joint Research Activities EC funds ~250 M€/y
2,5% of EU needsAbout 300 RIs
supported under FP
Integrating activities Targeted approach
The three next FP7 calls address defined topics, focusing on strategic priorities
With topics for the potential follow-up of projects and with topics for the opening to new communities
More topics than can be funded to ensure competition
Funding scheme: CP-CSA (combination of ‘collaborative project’ & ‘coordination and support actions’)
See (within call 2010, closing 3 Dec 2009) topic 34: RIs for dark matter search, neutrinos, gravitational waves)
e-Infrastructuresinterconnecting communities
Call closing on November 24, 2009
Distribution of projects per scientific domain and
activity (FP7, up to 2009, 687 M€)
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
e-infrastructures Physics andAstronomy
Life Sciences Environmentand EarthSciences
Social sciencesand Humanities
Engineeringand Energy
Mathematicsand Computer
Sciences
others
Nu
mb
er o
f p
roje
cts
Policy development (23)
Design Studies (14)
Construction - Preparatory Phase (34)
ICT based e-infrastructures (28)
Integrating Activities (38)
236 M€
174 M€
111 M€
76 M€
29 M€ 46 M€
10 M€
5 M€
Global issues? Vision?
Vision: the renaissance
of Europe
• A fully integrated, consistent, efficient eco-system of Research Infrastructures, serving researchers in all S&T fields
• Based on European wide e-infrastructures
• Research Infrastructures as knowledge industry for the knowledge society and source of attraction for world scientists
Vision: the storm
• Other regions (world) have become much more attractive than Europe for researchers
• European research actions are loosing its scientific and technological relevance
• In addition, knowledge generated for years by European researchers is being exploited through the www. by others
Another way - more proactive -
is to present key factors affecting the vision,
e.g.
• Capacity (or not) to develop a favorable environment for EU research (not just national)
• Capacity (or not) to strengthen relations with education and with industry
• Capacity (or not) to work together to face increasingly complex problems / costly solutions
• Capacity (or not) to to face research internationalization
Capacity (or not) to develop a favorable environment for EU
research (not just national)
Overall environment
Efficiency of Research Infrastructures at the centre of the knowledge triangle
relate to a favourable environment
ResearchResearch EducationEducation
InnovatioInnovationn
Research infrastructur
esKnowledg
e «industry
»Impacts much broader (and may be
more important for decision makers) than just scientific ones!
• Recent entry into force of ERIC (Aug 09)• Based on art. 171 EC Treaty, that allows the
Community to set up European entities necessary for efficient execution of Community RTD programmes
• The regulation provides an easy-to-use legal tool:
•… having legal personality recognized in all MS•… having a spirit of a truly European venture •… being flexible enough (one size doesn’t fit all)•… with some privileges / exemptions
New Research Infrastructures a new Community legal framework
Capacity (or not) to strengthen relations with education and
with industry
10
48
94 99
18
3031
3443
11
1923
84
80
8
14
18
18
77
4029
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
FP2(1987-91)
FP3(1990-94)
FP4(1994-98)
FP5(1998-2002)
FP6(2002-06)
FP7(2007-08)
Nu
mb
er
of
RIs
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Social Sciences and Humanities
Life Sciences
Environment and Earth Sciences
Engineering and Energy
Physics and Astronomy
Environment
Engineering
Physics
Social Sciences
Computer Sciences
Life Sciences
16
112
69
131
248
318
Positive evolution as shown by the number of RIs supported for Transnational Access at EU level
(per scientific domain)
FP7(2007-08)
Total for FP7:
575(estim.)
… and increased used of RIs for training of scientists and engineers as shown by the evolution of non-publication related access within a major EU synchrotron
(ELETTRA) during the last 10 years
EU enlargement
… but a problem of overall funding as shown by the evolution of the budget related to transnational
access related actions from FP2 to FP7
716
2330
36 34
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
FP2(1987-91)
FP3(1990-94)
FP4(1994-98)
FP5(1998-2002)
FP6(2002-06)
FP7(2007-13)
575(estimated)
248
7500(estimated)
6000
users / year
Number of RIs
M€ / year
Capacity (or not) to work together to face
increasingly complex problems
costly solutions
the researcher doesn’t need to bother how the
information infrastructure works…
The Body of Knowledge
Creation
Archival
Access
Virtual Research Environment
Information Infrastructure
Acknowledgement: e-IRG 2007
Example
Computation, curation
• Acquisition and Ingest .................ca. 42%• Archival Storage & Preservation ....ca. 23%• Access ..........................................ca.35%
Ability to integrate research infrastructures (distributed RIs) as well as RIs and e-infrastructures?
Content Preservation
Bit-stream Preservation
MetadataCreation
AccessIngestAcquisitionCreation
or Purchase
… but needs to work within a consistent information infrastructure to avoid wasting money later on…
Capacity (or not) to face research
internationalization
Pan European RIs to interact at all levels !
KM3NeT
National/Regional initiatives (Antares,
Nemo, Nestor…) in EU
International cooperation (IceCube…)
Europe (Aspera, EMSO PP, EuroSites CP…),
Structural Funds…
Challenges: technological, scientific,
political (ERA, nat. priorities)
Global projects?
32
We need a more research and
innovation intensive, integrated and attractive
European Research Area
Excellent Research Attracts
How should KM3Net help contributing to an efficient Research Infrastructure eco-system?