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 states  Results 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  Roadmap update:  Re-evaluation of 20 objects  12 new proposals  18 objects in roadmap 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 2009  15 objects selected from 20 submitted  Selection based on international experts review  Renewing of the roadmap has been started 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 BBMRILBMC EU-OPENSCREENLOSI INSTRUCT LBMC LOSI MIRRILU European Social SurveyLU ELIXIR LVAI LBMC LU MII PRACE RTU LU MII European Spallation SourceLU FI CLARINLU MII LU 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

EstoniaLatviaLithuania Estonian Centre for Genomics NRC of Pharmacy and Biomedicine Latvian Genome Centre Human Biological Resource Center (HBRC) NRC of Public Health and Clinical Medicine Biomedicine Data Warehousing, Standardization and Analysis RI (MEDWAN) BBMRI-ERIC Biobanking and biomedical research

EstoniaLatviaLithuania Estonian Structural biology Infrastructure NRC of Pharmacy and Biomedicine Structural biology Centre Center for Computational, Structural and Systems Biology (CossyBio) INSTRUCT-ERIC OPENSCREEN Structural biology

EstoniaLatviaLithuania National Centre for Translational and Clinical research NRC of Public Health and Clinical Medicine Research Infrastructure of Experimental Animals (RIEA) NRC of Pharmacy and Biomedicine EATRISINFRAFRONTIER Translational and clinical research

EstoniaLatviaLithuania Estonian PET-CentreInfrastructure for Ecological Metabolomics (INECOM) EMBRC Aerobiological Research Infrastructure (AEROINFRA) Other objects

EstoniaLatviaLithuania 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 ESoS European Social Survey ELIXIR European Life- Science Infrastructure for Biological Information EATRIS European Life- Science Infrastructure for Biological Information

EstoniaLatviaLithuania 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 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 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 innovations  Group 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

 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