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Research Infrastructures:Characteristics and Implications
Wouter LosUniversity of Amsterdam &
LifeWatch research infrastructure
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Scientific and technological drivers for infrastructure development
• New scientific areas requiring new instrumentation• Expected breakthroughs• Higher resolutions in instrument outputs• Faster data generation and processing• Opportunities to operate data or instruments remotely (e-infrastructures)
Researchers are asking for new facilities (“market pull”)
New technologies offer new capabilities (“technology push”)
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Elettra Sincrotone Trieste
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Linking existing high magnetic field laboratories in Europe closer together.
• Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intense (Grenoble & Toulouse)
• Hochfeld-Magnetlabor (Dresden)
• High Field Magnet Laboratory (Nijmegen)
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Distributed new research infrastructures in a single organisation
ELI-Beamlines Facility in the Czech Republic
ELI-Attosecond Facility in Hungary
ELI-Nuclear Physics Facility in Romania
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Square Kilometer ArrayArtist's impression of the SKA dishes. Credit: SPDO/TDP/DRAO/Swinburne Astronomy Productions.
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COPAL
Airborne measurements for multidisciplinary experiments
Heavy-payload (> 10 tons) and long endurance (> 10 hours ) aircrafts with capabilities for European scientists
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Instruments for biodiversity research infrastructures
www.sics.se
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CLARIN
Virtual Language Observatory
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Conception
Negotiation
Construction
Operation
Infrastructure life cycle
Majorupgrade
Decommission
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Perspectives of stakeholders
• Researchers– Asking for free access– Requiring funding to benefit from the facilities
• Universities– Expected to train new generations for using new infrastructures– Want to be close to research infrastructures
• Industry – Depends on innovation to compete– Industries and infrastructures not always aware of opportunities and obstacles
• Policy makers– Consider research infrastructures expensive– Often state: “priority for domestic researchers; the foreign user pays”– Expect benefits or negative effects for the country, region, city
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The infrastructure perspective;mission and expectations
• Commit to excellence and new knowledge• Serve users; provide free and open access• Operate at the scientific and technological forefront• Promote innovation
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But also• Operate with often not secured (long-term) funding• Keep all stakeholders as a friend• Have to commit to non core objectives
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Present day challenges
• Operating at the European/international scale• Increasingly interconnected research infrastructures• Offering remote access -> relation with e-infrastructures
• Appropriate governance & management
• Legal structures• Financial engineering