Baltic infrastructure collaboration – the high-level group in RI in Baltic

countries.

Jānis Kloviņš

Update on the current situation in RI planning

Roadmap based comparative analysis of RI in Baltic states

ESFRI projects in Baltic statesResults of Joint Expert Group on RI Future perspectives

Structure of the talk

Launched in 2010 20 objects selected from 50

submitted Selection based on experts review-

followed by panel decision 9 projects proceeded with financing 2012-2014 Roadmap update:

Re-evaluation of 20 objects 12 new proposals 18 objects in roadmap 14 + 4 new

Research infrastructures roadmaps - ESTONIA

Divided in 6 groups Social Sciences and Humanities – 2 objects Environmental Sciences – 2 objects Biological and Medical Sciences – 5 objects Materials Science – 5 objects Natural Sciences and Engineering – 3 objects e-infrastructures – 3 objects

Estonia joined 5 ESFRI objects, 1 in progress

Research infrastructures roadmaps - ESTONIA

Launched in 200915 objects selected from 20

submittedSelection based on international

experts reviewRenewing of the roadmap has

been started

Research infrastructures roadmaps – LITHUANIA

Research infrastructures roadmaps – LITHUANIA

Divided in 3 groups Social Sciences and Humanities – 3 objects Biomedical Sciences – 6 objects Physical and Technological Sciences – 6 objects

Lithuania joined 1 ESFRI objects, 3 in progress

Roadmap has not been accepted yet

9 National Research Centers selected in frame of ERDF project

Recommendations for roadmap and ESFRI has been prepared by Latvian Council of Science

Research infrastructures roadmaps – LATVIA

ESFRI Road Map IR Scie

BBMRI LBMC

EU-OPENSCREEN LOSI

INSTRUCT LBMCLOSI

MIRRI LUEuropean Social Survey LU

ELIXIR LVAILBMCLU MII

PRACE RTULU MII

European Spallation Source

LU FI

CLARIN LU MIILU LLI

Research infrastructures roadmaps – LATVIA

9 National Research Centers (NRC): NRC of Pharmacy and Biomedicine NRC of Public Health and Clinical Medicine;

NRC of Nanostructured and Multifunctional Materials, Structures and Technologies;

NRC of Technologies of Acquisition and Sustainable Use of Energy and Environmental Resources

NRC of Use of Agricultural Resources and Food Technologies; NRC of Forest and Water Resources;

NRC of Information, Communication and Signal Processing Technologies

NRC of Social Economy and Public Management NRC of the Latvian Language, Cultural Heritage and Creative Technologies;

Latvia has not joined ESFRI objects, 3 in progress

Estonia Latvia Lithuania

Estonian Centre for Genomics

NRC of Pharmacy and BiomedicineLatvian Genome Centre

Human Biological Resource Center(HBRC)

NRC of Public Health and Clinical Medicine

Biomedicine Data Warehousing, StandardizationandAnalysisRI (MEDWAN)

BBMRI-ERIC

Biobanking and biomedical research

Estonia Latvia Lithuania

Estonian Structural biology Infrastructure

NRC of Pharmacy and BiomedicineStructural biology Centre

Center for Computational, Structuraland SystemsBiology (CossyBio)

INSTRUCT-ERIC

OPENSCREEN OPENSCREEN

Structural biology

Estonia Latvia Lithuania

National Centre for Translational and Clinical research

NRC of Public Health and Clinical Medicine

Research Infrastructure of ExperimentalAnimals (RIEA)

NRC of Pharmacy and Biomedicine

EATRIS INFRAFRONTIER

Translational and clinical research

Estonia Latvia Lithuania

Estonian PET-Centre Infrastructure for Ecological Metabolomics(INECOM)EMBRC

Aerobiological Research Infrastructure(AEROINFRA)

Other objects

Estonia Latvia Lithuania

ESFRI-ERIC projects in Baltic states

BBMRI Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources

Research

BBMRI Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources

Research

BBMRI Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources

Research

CLARIN Common Language Resources and Technology

Infrastructure

CLARIN Common Language Resources and Technology

Infrastructure

CLARIN Common Language Resources and Technology

Infrastructure

ESoS European Social Survey

ESoS European Social Survey

ESoS European Social Survey

ELIXIR European Life-Science Infrastructure for Biological

Information

ELIXIR European Life-Science Infrastructure for Biological

Information

ELIXIR European Life-Science Infrastructure for Biological

Information

EATRIS European Life-Science Infrastructure for Biological

Information

Estonia Latvia Lithuania

ESFRI-ERIC projects in Baltic states

OPENSCREEN European Infrastructure of Open

Screening Platforms for Chemical Biology

INSTRUCT An Integrated Structural Biology

Infrastructure

ESS European Spallation Source

PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe CESSDA Council of

European Social Science Data Archives

ESS European Spallation Source

ESS European Spallation Source

INSTRUCT An Integrated Structural Biology

Infrastructure

INSTRUCT An Integrated Structural Biology

Infrastructure

OPENSCREEN European Infrastructure of Open

Screening Platforms for Chemical Biology

PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

SHARE Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

DARIAH Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and

Humanities, 

In December 2012 the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministries of Education and Sciences of three Baltic states was signed To coordinate the R&D infrastructure development plans,

national RI roadmaps and ICT infrastructures Create a basis for constant exchange of information on

research and innovationsGroup of 8 people was nominated:

To map and prepare comprehensive inventory of the research infrastructures

Joint expert group on infrastructure mapping

Latvia Vadims Murašovs (Ministry of Education and Science) Maija Bundule (Latvian Council of Science), Indriķis Muižnieks (University of Latvia)

• Tālis Juhna (Riga Technical University)

Lithuania Kristina Babelyté-Labanauské (Ministry of Education and Science) Tadas Juknevičius (Ministry of Education and Science) Arūnas Poviliūnas (Research Council of Lithuania).

Estonia Toivo Räim (Ministry of Education and Research), Priit Tamm (Estonian Research Council)

Joint expert group on infrastructure mapping

Meeting in Tallinn – May 29, 2013 Different possibilities how to proceed with mapping of research infrastructures

in Baltic countries were discussed start pilot collection of data on the research facilities that identify itself as

Open Access Facility -the facility should provide certain services to users. The quality level of facilities will be assured by agency providing information to

mapping exercise MERIL Data Dictionary for the Minimum Data Set used for questionnaires

Meeting in Riga – February 3, 2014 Preliminary results of research infrastructure (RI) mapping discussed Decision on the form of dissemination of RI mapping results - list of Baltic RI

should be published on web discussion about possible RI support schemes in Baltic States, e.g. possibility

of establishing administrative and financial schemes for Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian researchers to access RI in Baltic States

discuss the progress of developing Baltic Bonus programs in all three countries

Joint expert group on infrastructure mapping

On May 20, 2014 mapping of RI is finished: results are available on web

Estonia : List and descriptive information with links is provided for 8 Estonian Core Infrastructures

Latvia: List and descriptive information with links is provided for 17 Research Infrastructures

Lithuania: Searchable list and descriptive information with links is provided for 19 Open Access Centers

Joint expert group on infrastructure mapping: RESULTS

ESTONIA

LATVIA

Lithuania

RI example

RI example

Managers of RI should look through the lists, comment on them, and then become responsible for updating information when it has been published-the agency that hosts the list on web is to be responsible for updating this information.

Development of a support scheme for the use of RI in the Baltic countries is important (e.g.– to allow the use of RI for free or for the reduced fee for the researchers from the Baltic countries - this would be an additional Baltic Bonus scheme)

Necessity to develop a grant system that covers the access to RI in the Baltic countries -a proposal for the political decision on that

Further suggestions on RI mapping

Formation of Baltic strategic infrastructure forum is needed with the aim to create Baltic infrastructure roadmap ( therefore, it is crucial for Latvia to develop its roadmap first)

Expert group can identify RIs with common interests from all Baltic States and invite the managers of these RI to meeting in order to develop proposals for Baltic infrastructure roadmap and coordinate the development plans

Further suggestions on RI planning and collaboration

Genetic map of Europe supports the collaboration