ESFRI roadmap State of Play

dr. Rudy HERMAN Senior Researcher dept. EWI

ESFRI _RI-info-session at Flanders Universities, May 2014

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Role of European Strategic Forum on Research Infrastuctures (ESFRI)

(and of its ad-hoc Working Groups) Initiated at 2002 jointly by Council & COM To foster an “open method of coordination”

between different countries To discuss the long term vision at European level

and to support the development of a European RI policy

To bring initiatives and projects to a point where decisions by ministers are possible.

First roadmap

in 2006 Updates in

2008 & 2010

A stimulation and incubator role

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The Competitiveness Council of the EU mandated ESFRI on November 2004 to develop a strategic roadmap in the field of RI for Europe

The ESFRI roadmap identifies new pan-European Research Infrastructures (RIs) or major up-grades to existing ones, corresponding to the needs of European research communities in the next 10 to 20 years, regardless of possible location

The Roadmap Mandate

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The ESFRI roadmap identifies new pan-European RI or major upgrades needs for the next 10 to 20 years

More than 260 proposals - 50 projects identified through several review stages between 2006 and 2010

The Roadmap 2010 - 48 projects in total; 3+3 new projects in Energy and Biological and Medical sciences, 2 projects removed

10 projects in the implementation phase. 16 others in the implementation phase by end of 2014

Structuring of the European and National Research Landscape – National roadmaps

Projects are cornerstones for the “grand challenges”

ESFRI Success Stories

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ERIC: European Research Infrastructure Consortium

A new legal framework, at EU level, to facilitate the joint establishment and operation of Research Infrastructures of European interest among several countries

A legal personality recognised in all EU Member States

Non-EU countries can be members

Current status: First ERIC status awarded to SHARE on 17 March 2011; Other applications have been awarded e.g. CLARIN, ECRIN, EuroArgo

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51 new - or major upgrade of - Research Infrastructures of pan-European interest (+ 3 additional projects from the CERN Council strategic roadmap for particle physics*)

Distributed research infrastructures

Single sited research infrastructures

Social Sc. & Hum. ( 5 )

Life Sciences ( 13 )

Environmental Sciences ( 9 )

Energy ( 7 )

Material and Analytical Facilities

( 6 )

Physics and Astronomy ( 10 )

e-Infra- structures

(1)

SHARE*I* BBMRI ELIXIR ICOS EURO-ARGO ECCSEL EUROFEL ELI TIARA* PRACE*I*

Eur. Social Survey*I* ECRIN INFRA

FRONTIER LIFEWATCH IAGOS Windscanner EMFL SPIRAL2*I* CTA

CESSDA *I* INSTRUCT EATRIS EMSO EPOS EU-SOLARIS European XFEL *I* E-ELT SKA

CLARIN*I* EU-OPENSCREEN EMBRC SIAEOS EISCAT_3D JHR*I* ESRF *I*

Upgrade KM3NeT FAIR*I*

DARIAH Euro BioImaging

ERINHA BSL4 Lab COPAL IFMIF NEUTRON

ESS SLHC-PP* ILC-HIGRADE*

ISBE MIRRI HiPER ILL20/20 Upgrade*I* ERIC = OK

ANAEE MYRRHA ERIC in2014

ESFRI roadmap 2010

*I* = Implementation phase

= Implementation phase started by the end 2012

EURO- ARGO

EUFAR COPAL

LIFE- WATCH

ICOS

EMSO

IAGOS- ERI

SIOS

EPOS

Environmental Sciences

EISCAT

European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures

Area Roadmap 2010

Implemented

Social Science and Humanities (SSH) 5 2

Environmental Sciences (ENV) 9 3

Biological and Medical Sciences (BMS) 13 3

Energy 6 1

Engineering, Physical Sciences, Materials and Analytical Facilities (EPS)

8 5

E-Infrastructures 0 1

ESFRI Projects - 2010 Roadmap

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Implementation of RI on Roadmap Monitoring scientific developments and emerging

research challenges Development of an evaluation methodology for pan-

European RI Development of closer cooperation between RIs and e.g.

Joint Programming Initiatives, Joint Technology Initiatives

Building up cooperation with European industry Addressing the issue of socio-economic impacts Promoting greater regional and international cooperation Supporting and promoting the use and development of

e-infrastructures

ESFRI’s Action Plan

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Cooperation and consultation

Walloon Region

Brussels-Capital Region

Flemish Community

French Community

German Community

Flemish Region

The Interministerial Conference on Science Policy • The International Cooperation Commission • The Federal Cooperation Commission

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Priority setting Flanders: what?

Selection of the ERIC’s wherein Flanders can play an active role, Contribute to the construction of the ERIC Identification of potential leading/active role up-front financing for the creation of the RI.

What it is NOT? selection of proposals for access to RI’s (cf. “big

science”-programme of FWO-Vlaanderen) The process of additional access modalities will be

considered in an follow up phase

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Quid Flanders Roadmap?

Policy Letter 2009 minister Patricia Ceysens: “Flanders will organise a call for interest and establish a

priority list in order to prepare the decision on the potential participation of Flanders in the pan-European Research Infrastructures”

ESFRI-advisory committee (EWI, Herculesstichting, IWT, FWO) Process priority setting Provide Advice to which ERIC’s Flanders can provide a

appropriate high level contribution. No decision on financing, since this instrument is not established yet.

Give guidance in the intra_Belgium ESFRI/ERIC agreements

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Priority setting in Flanders: how?

2-step procedure First phase: shortlist prepared by the Advisory committee

Involvement in the ESFRI’s (roadmap 2006 & ---- ) Actual significant investments (HR & operational means) opportunities for Flanders for further investments

(coherent with the frontier research policy note))

Second phase: detailed evaluation short-list projects: assessment of the proposals by at least 3 non EU experts

Rolling process First round: May 2009: on ESFRI 2006 roadmap and taking

into consideration the evolution of the PP of the-FP7projects Second round to started in May 2011, based on the projects

2008 and 2010 ESFRI roadmaps. Evaluation process starts end 2012. Will be proposed for decision during 2013-2014.

Expected to be embedded in the multiannual budget projection from 2014 onwards.

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H2020: ESFRI Strategic Working Groups (SS, BMS, ENV, EPS…)

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• Key challenges :Emerging scientific challenges requiring novel RI support, emergence of system research and its implications for ENV research infrastructures

• Identification of possible synergies, overlap and gaps between different initiatives + Gap analysis

• Links to other sectors (energy, health & food, etc..) • International cooperation (beyond EU) and competitiveness

of Europe RIs in the field today and in the next 10 years • Looking ahead in the next two decades: Mid- and long-term

perspective (for operationality and eventual upgrades) • Computing and data needs • Potential impact of new projects in science/integration/innovation • Innovating the pipeline from instruments, raw-processed

data, legacy data, data analysis & modelling, scenarios and visualisation

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Co-operation Pan-European Infrastuctures – JPIs and Common Societal Grand Challenges

Thank you for your attention!

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