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The Italian Roadmap of Research InfrastructuresProf. Caterina Petrillo

Italian Delegate to FP7 Capacities - Infrastructures Director of the Physics Department - University of

Perugia

Reasons for a National Plan: la “Roadmap Italiana delle Infrastrutture di Ricerca di livello Pan-Europeo” Steps towards the implementation Future perspectives and 2020 Vision

Information Day on European Funding Opportunities for Research Infrastructures – Nicosia

With the establishment of the European Strategic Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and with the publication of ESFRI’s roadmap for new and upgraded large-scale research infrastructures, Europe has taken a major step towards the development of a coherent policy for the implementation of Research Infrastructures.

European Approach


Member States are primarily responsible for the development of infrastructures Construction, maintenance, and modernization of leading-edge facilities require substantial investments, often out of reach for individual Member States Implementation of the ESFRI projects is a major challenge which require cooperation

National Level


Need for prioritization, development of joint cross border initiatives, synergy with national/regional plans, involvement of all potential stakeholders

Developing the Italian Roadmap of Infrastructures

enables national/regional priorities to connect with the ESFRI roadmap and at the same time to place these actions in a wider European context.

Coordination between the ESFRI roadmap and the national plan would be an important component of a coherent RI policy.


Italian Participation to International Research Organisations and Infrastructures Projects

Italy participates to the Inter-Governmental Research Organisations, some of which are part of the EIRO-Forum association (CERN, EFDA, EMBL, ESA, ESO, ESRF, ILL).

Italy, through the major Research Institutions, participates to 30 Preparatory Phase Projects (Call 2007) and 8 Preparatory Phase Projects (Call 2009) acting as international Coordinator of 4 of them (ESFRI ROADMAP).


The Italian Roadmap of Research Infrastructures

The goal of the Roadmap is to provide an overview of the research facilities which are of strategic importance to Italy and which require a significant capital investment.

The Roadmap develops a vision and a strategy for the research infrastructures in key areas, coherently with the needs of the scientific communities, the research organisations and the national strategic plans (PNR and SIRit).


Setting up the Italian Roadmap of Research Infrastructures

Wide consultation of the scientific communities through an open call for proposals opened in December 2007 and closed in February 2008. MIUR web-site created for on-line submission of proposals by Research Institutions, Universities, other bodies.

Received 220 proposals


Selecting the facilities for inclusion in the Roadmap

A Working Group, composed of experts at international level and the chairs of the major research institutions, was set up (Min. Decree, November 2009), with a 6 months mandate of analysing the proposals, providing a survey of the Italian needs and potential, selecting the projects that really respond to the European definition of Infrastructure either single site or distributed, proposing a priority map of the research infrastructures.


Steps towards the publication of the Roadmap

June 2010 - The Minister delivered a formal communication to the ESFRI Chair acknowledging the completion of the evaluation process and announcing the publication of the Roadmap by the end of the year.October 2010 – The final draft of the Roadmap was submitted to the Minister for approval. May 2011 – The Minister formally approved the Roadmap.October 2011 – Re-opening of the web site for update and new submissions


Roadmap Italiana delle Infrastrutture di Ricerca

Ministero dell ’Istruzione, dell ’Università e della Ricerca_______

DIREZIONE GENERALE PER L’INTERNAZIONALIZZAZIONE DELLA RICERCA

Indice

1. Sommario2. Motivazioni e finalità per una Roadmap Italiana delle Infrastrutture di Ricerca3. Contesto Europeo e Globale4. Il contributo italiano alla costruzione dello Spazio Europeo della Ricerca

4.1 Partecipazione alle Infrastrutture EIRO-Forum4.2 Infrastrutture presenti sul territorio nazionale 4.3 Partecipazione ai bandi del Settimo Programma Quadro per infrastrutture

esistenti: l’azione I3 - Integrated Infrastructure Initiative4.4 Partecipazione ai bandi del Settimo Programma Quadro per Nuove

infrastrutture di ricerca: le azioni Design Studies e Preparatory Phase4.5 Partecipazione ai bandi del Settimo Programma Quadro per “e-

infrastructures” - infrastrutture per la tecnologia dell’informazione e dei dati5. Il processo di preparazione della Roadmap Italiana5.1 Infrastrutture di ricerca di interesse pan-europeo mature per la fase di

preparazione e implementazione5.2 Iniziative emergenti nel contesto Europeo (ESFRI 2008, ESFRI 2010, nuove

Preparatory Phase)6. Gli strumenti legali: lo European Research Infrastructure Consortium - ERIC7. Gli strumenti finanziari: RSSF, BEI, Fondi Strutturali

APPENDICESchede Tecniche delle Infrastrutture di Ricerca della Roadmap Italiana

Area Roadmap Italiana

Roadmap ESFRI

ImplementedESFRI 2010

Social Science and Humanities (SSH) 2 (+ 1) 6 3

Environmental Sciences (ENV) 4 (+ 1) 9 0

Biological and Medical Sciences (BMS)

5 (+ 11) 13 0

Energy 1 (+ 5) 6 1

Engineering, Materials and Analytical Facilities (EPS)

4 (+ 6)8 5

Physical Sciences, Astrophysics 4 (+ 3)

E-Infrastructures 1 (+2) 1 1

21 (+ 29) 53 in totale, 10 realizzate43 in Roadmap, 2 decadute


ESFRI-Projects - ENV on the roadmap 2010

EMSO – European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory will be a Research Infrastructure for long-term permanent monitoring of the ocean margin environment around Europe. It is an essential tool for deep see research.

Estimated Costs:Preparation: 80 M€Construction: ca. 160 M€Operations: 32 M€/yearDecommissioning: to be estimated

Coordination: ITALY

Start of construction: 2013Start of operation: 2014

COORDINAMENTO ITALIANO

ESFRI-Projects - ENV on the roadmap 2010

EPOS – European Plate Observing System will create a single sustainable, permanent observational infrastructure, integrating existing geophysical monitoring networks, local observatories and experimental laboratories in Europe and adjacent regions.

Estimated Costs:Preparation: 12 M€Construction: 500 M€Operations: 80 M€/yearDecommissioning: not applicable

Coordination: Italy

Preparation phase: 2010-2014Construction phase: 2015-2020Operation phase: 2020-2040+


ESFRI-Projects - BMS on the roadmap 2010

EMBRC – European Marine Biological Resource Centre will comprise a consortium of key European marine biological and molecular biology laboratories. As distributed RI it will provide coordinated services concerning marine biology including biobanks, supply of marine organisms etc.

Estimated Costs:Preparation: 7.5 M€Construction: 100 M€Operations: 60 M€/yearDecommissioning: not applicable

Coordination: Italy

Preparation phase: 2010-2013Construction phase: 2010-2017Operation phase: 2014-2034


ESFRI-Projects - EPS on the roadmap 2010

KM3NET – Kilometre Cube Neutrino Telescope will be a deep-sea Research Infrastructure in the Mediterranean Sea hosting a cubic-kilometre sized deep-sea neutrino telescope for astronomy based on the detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos and giving access to long-term deep-sea measurements.

Estimated CostsPreparation: 32 M€ Construction: 220 M€Operations: 4-6 M€/yearDecommissioning: 5 M€

Coordination: Italy

2008-2014


Steps towards the implementation of the Roadmap

The Roadmap is part of the National Research Plan delivered by the Ministry for the years 2011-2013 Exploiting synergies with other Ministeries & Funding Agencies to pool resources Starting the procedural iter to request a special budget for the implementation of Research Infrastructures Exploring access to Public-Private Funding Evaluating potential of RSFF and BEI financial tools Assessing the impact of the ERIC


Recommendations

Pursuing the use of Structural Funds to strengthen research and innovation-related infrastructures

EU should consider increasing the proportion of Structural Funds dedicated to the construction of truly international research infrastructures under

simplified common rules for their use


Recommendations


The next national call for Roadmap update and new projects will address more specifically than in the past the issues of Innovation, both aiming at the suppliers as well as at the users of the RIs

Development of human capital

International and regional integration

Future Perspectives and 2020 Vision

Emphasize the role of RI as an ideal environment

to set up the partnerships needed to address societal challenges, the interactions and the exchange of knowledge to set up a new approach to Research and Innovation that crosses disciplinary boundaries to orient the activities around the challenges to implement national and regional investment efforts, in order to avoid expensive duplication, and to share costs and benefits


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Emphasize and strengthen the link between Joint Programming and Research Infrastructures to increase the knowledge production European RIs are the first effective and well established example of joint programming carried out at international and in several cases global level RIs can play a role of scientific reference for whole fields of research, well beyond the facility service (CERN, ESRF)


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Develop evaluation procedures at community level to assess the achieved performances against the expectations (ex-ante versus ex-post evaluation) The road-mapping exercise of ESFRI and the Member

States is an ex-ante evaluation action that addresses the issues of science and technology by pooling the efforts and increasing the impact of new knowledge on society and economy.

Performance evaluation has to be pursued to facilitate decisions.


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Increase the level of coordination between research center, RIs and Universities

The 3% target in R&D intensity will act as a catalyser forchanges. An increase in the number of new researchersto be trained in different scientific fields and employedin the private and public sectors is expected.

Need to strengthen the link between RIs and Univ.optimizing education programs, favoring the exchangeof knowledge and supporting the mobility.


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Thank you for your attention


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