LOGO The International exhibition -workshop Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Athens October 09, 2014 Research Infrastructures in Russia: current status, problems and prospects for development Marine Melkonyan Coordinator of NCP for Research Infrastructures The National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”

Contents Research Infrastructures in Russia. Skolkovo, Rosnano Mega science in Europe and FP7 projects in the field of Research Infrastructures with Russian partners Current status of Research Infrastructures in Russia Definition and Significance of Research Infrastructures Promoting Russian-European Research Infrastructure Partnership. Some proposals

Research infrastructures are facilities, resources and services that are used by the research communities to conduct research and foster innovation Include:  Major scientific equipments (or sets of instruments)  Knowledge-based resources such as collections, archives or scientific data  e-infrastructures, such as data and computing systems and communication networks  Any other infrastructure of a unique nature essential to achieve excellence in R&I Definition of Research Infrastructures (RIs)

Research Infrastructures in Russia Interactive map 253 Joint Use Centers (JUCs) in 7 Federal districts  110 Unique Scientific Equipment & Complexes (USE&C) Interactive map and database of JUCs are available:

 1990s : Establishing the National Network of JUCs: the main supporter the Russian Foundation of Basic Research (RFBR) Current status of Research Infrastructures in Russia - I  : A new impetus was given in the frame of the Federal Targeted Programme R&D in priority areas of S&T  : Development of JUCs in the frame of the “Assistance in the Development of Joint Use Centers of Scientific Equipment” activity 5 of the FTP R&D in priority fields of the S&T Complex of Russia: Development of Infrastructure for Nano-Industry in the RF New innovative instruments ROSNANO (2007) and SKOLKOVO (2010)  2014 – 2020: Support of JUCs within a new FTP R&D in priority fields of the S&T complex of Russia with focusing on the international cooperation Recent History

Program goal: Program objectives Program budget mln. rubles to form a competitive and effective R&D sector and ensure its leading role in the process of technological modernization of the Russian economy 1. to form the advancing S&T basis for research in priority areas; 2. to provide the R&D system planning and coordination; 3. to integrate the Russian R&D sector into global international innovative system; 4. to increase the efficiency of R&D sector. FTP «R&D for priority areas of the development of S&T complex of Russia» for the 2014—2020 Total from 2014 to 2020 – ,77 incl.: Federal budget – ,77 Other sources of funding – ,00

Types of Activities of the Programme FTP «R&D for priority areas of the development of S&T complex of Russia» for the 2014—2020 Activity typeDescription R&D focused on S&T priorities and forecast of the technology development Research focused on formation of system of scientific and technological prioritization and S&T development forecast In : Aims to support up to 500 projects with the duration up to 2 years. Project funding depends on the complexity and importance of the task. No co-funding required. Research focused on the development of the advanced scientific and technological basis In : Aims to support up to 2000 projects with projects duration up to 3 years (long- term projects – up to 5 years). Project funding: up to 0,45 mln. Euro per project/per year. Required co-funding - not less than 10%. Applied research for creation of the advanced scientific and technological basement for economic development In : Aims to support up to 500 projects with projects duration up to 3 years. Project funding: up to 0,68 mln. Euro per project/per year. Required co-funding - not less than 40%. Applied research for complex scientific and technological tasks In : Aims to support up to 300 projects. Projects duration depends on the complexity and importance of the task. Project funding: up to 2,27 mln. Euro per project/per year. Required co-funding - not less than 10%. International cooperation Research in the framework of international multilateral and bilateral cooperation In : Aims to support up to 300 projects with the duration up to 3 years (long-term projects – up to 4 years). Project funding: up to 1,14 mil. Euro per project/per year. Required co-funding - not less than 50%. Support of R&D in the framework of cooperation with the EU countries In : Aims to support up to 200 projects with the duration up to 3 years (long-term projects – up to 4 years). Project funding: up to 1,14 mln. Euro per project/per year. R equired co-funding - not less than 50%. Participation in large-scale international scientific and scientific-technological events In : Aims to support up to 250 projects with the duration up to 1 year. Project funding: up to 0,34 mln. Euro per project/per year.

Activities of the ProgramDescription Support for R&D Infrastructure Support and development of unique research infrastructure In : Aims to support up to 120 projects with projects duration up to 3 years. Project funding: from 1,14 mil. Euro per project/per year up to 2,27 mil. Euro per project/per year. Support and development of the Centers for collective use of scientific equipment In : Aims to support up to 200 projects with projects duration up to 3 years. Project funding: up to 2,27 mil. Euro per project/per year. Required co-funding is not less than 10%. Development of information infrastructure In : Aims to support up to 150 projects. Projects funding and duration depend upon the complexity and importance of the task. No co-funding. Promotion of the S&T achievements In : Aims to support up to 100 projects. Projects funding and duration depend of the complexity and work value. No co-funding required. Development of science publicity and communication (incl., conferences, workshops) In : Aims to support up to 100 projects. Projects funding and duration depend of the complexity and work value. No co-funding required. Material and technical resources Development of material and technical base In : Aims to support up to 7 projects (objects). projects duration up to 7 year Management of the Program Information and analytical provision and monitoring of realization of Program activities In : Aims to support up to 100 projects. Projects funding and duration depend of the complexity and importance of the task. No co-funding required. Organizational and technical providing of Program activities To be provided by FTP “Direction” Activities of the Programme on R&D FTP «R&D for priority areas of the development of S&T complex of Russia» for the 2014—2020

International S&T cooperation in Russia FTP «R&D for priority areas of the development of S&T complex of Russia» for the 2014—2020 Activity 2.1 Research in the framework of international multilateral and bilateral cooperation Activity 2.2 R&D support in the framework of cooperation with EU countries FTPs on Research and Development and Scientific and Pedagogical Personnel for the 2014—2020

Research in the framework of international multilateral and bilateral cooperation Project funding: up to 1,14 mil. Euro per project/per year Required co-funding: not less than 50% (provided by the foreign partner) Duration of the projects: 1-3 years (long-term projects – up to 4 years) It’s planning to support: up to 300 projects totally Activity 2.1 FTP «R&D for priority areas of the development of S&T complex of Russia» for the 2014—2020 The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Supporting cooperation in R&D with EU countries Project funding: up to 1,14 mil. Euro per project/per year Required co-funding: not less than 50% (provided by the foreign partner) Duration of the projects: 1-3 years (long-term projects – up to 4 years) It’s planning to support: up to 200 projects totally Activity 2.2 The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation FTP «R&D for priority areas of the development of S&T complex of Russia» for the 2014—2020

Mechanism for co-ordinated Calls Call Proposals Evaluation Negotiation Discussion on area Joint Protocol Funding Running projects Results FTP «R&D for priority areas of the development of S&T complex of Russia» for the 2014—2020 The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Skolkovo Innovation Centre  The strategic goal is to concentrate international intellectual capital, thereby stimulating the development of break-through projects and technologies  The Skolkovo Foundation and its partners transform the infrastructure, resources and other possibilities into effective services for companies that are project participants  5 clusters within the Skolkovo project are created, each one developing innovative projects IT Cluster Over 172 companies Biomedical Cluster Energy Efficient Technologies Nuclear Technologies Space Technology and Telecommunicati ons

Rosnano. Support of infrastructure 4 years work 130 projects BUDGET ~ € 15 billion ROSNANO encourages development of an innovation infrastructure: -nanotechnology centers of excellence, -business incubators, -the early investment funds The combination of these elements assists to overcome barriers present in the innovation process such as: market, technology, interdisciplinary, geographical barriers.

ROSNANO Foundation for Infrastructure and Educational Programs Innovative Infrastructure: Bridge between science and business Average financing of Nanotechnology Center project:  Investments in equipment ― € 29 millions  Investments in operational budget (3-5 years) ― € 6 millions  Number of start-up created (5 years) ― 50  By 2015, RUSNANO launch the start-up of Nanotechnology Centers, creating 400 new technology start-ups

Funding of Nanotechnology Center programme

Need of Research Infrastructures of global interest (reasons)  High cost and complexity of the needed infrastructure  The global scope of the scientific challenge (e.g. the better understanding of health or environment problems, which requires harmonization of methods of methods and standards)  The size of the problem (or of the solution)  Standardization and integration of data collected in different countries  The availability of e-infrastructures for data collection is an essential element of the international and global RIs

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research JINR, Dubna  The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) is an international intergovernmental scientific research organisation established in 1956  It is situated in Dubna not far from Moscow in the Russian Federation  JINR has 18 Member States: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam; Agreements are signed on the governmental level with Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Serbia and the Republic of South Africa  The main fields of JINR's activity are theoretical and experimental studies in elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, and condensed matter physics.  The research policy of JINR is determined by the Scientific Council, which consists of eminent scientists from the Member States as well as famous researchers from China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Switzerland, the USA, and the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN)

International Megaprojects with the Russian participation  International thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER)  European XFEL (  The Large Hadron Collider ( en.html) en.html  Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR)  A large volume detector for low energy neutrino spectroscopy Borexino

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITER’s member states: the EU (is contributing 45 %), India, Russia (9%), China, South Korea, Japan, United States Construction of the facility began in October 2007 The first plasma is expected to be produced in 2019 An international nuclear fusion research and engineering project, which is currently building the world's largest and most advanced experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor Web-site:

The European XFEL (I)  The European XFEL is being realized as a joint effort of many partners  12 countries are participating in the project (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland)  Construction started in early 2009: Commissioning is planned for 2015  Costs amount 1082 million Euro: 54% Germany, 23% Russia, the other international partners between 1 and 3.5%  The European XFEL will generate ultra short X-ray flashes ( times per second) Website:

The European XFEL (II)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a world’s largest particle accelerator near Geneva  The LHC accelerator was originally conceived in the 1980s and approved for construction by the CERN Council in late 1994  It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) from 1998 to 2008  Preparations for experiments was conducted under the general “Agreement between CERN and the Government of Russia on participation in construction of the LHC”

Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (I) The FAIR accelerator centre is one of the largest projects for basic research in physics worldwide FAIR will be built in Darmstadt Right from the beginning in the year 1999 the FAIR project has been a cooperation of various international research and technical institutes Partners: Germany, Spain, Finland, France, India, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Slovenia Russia signed the FAIR Communiqué on the occasion of the official launch of the FAIR project on 7 November 2007 in Darmstadt and declared its contribution to the FAIR construction to be M€.

Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (II)  The State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom“ is the Russian funding agency in FAIR  The Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) for FAIR organizes the Russian activities in the FAIR GmbH  The Russian institutions participate in construction of all FAIR accelerators  The Russia is responsible for the development and delivery of many key components within the FAIR experiments:  In PANDA project Russia participates in construction of superconducting solenoid  Seven Russian institutions contribute to the NUSTAR project  The Russia is a major participant of the HEDgeHOB experiment

Borexino  Borexino is an experiment performed by an international collaboration and located in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS)  Borexino physics program is centered on Solar Neutrino Physics, but also includes other relevant topics in low background neutrino detection and underground physics  Partners: Italy, Germany, France, Russia, USA, Poland, Ukraine Russian partners: Russian Scientific Centre "Kurchatov Institute“, J.I.N.R. Dubna, B. P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of RAS; Lomonosov Moscow State University - Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics

Borexino. The Italian partners Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Ferrara Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Genova LNGS - Gran Sasso National Laboratory Assergi (AQ) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Milano Dipartimento di Chimica Universita degli Studi di Perugia

 354 projects FP7-INFRA supported by EC  26 projects with 50 Russian organizations Acronyms: EURORIS-NET, NMI3, PRE-XFEL, SEADATANET, FAIR, ERICON-AB, HIPER, EUCARD, MONDILEX, EGI-INSPIRE, VAMDC, DEGISCO, SIOS-PP EUROPLANET RI NMDB, HILUMI LHC, PESI, EUCARD, SEADATANET II, ORIENTPLUS GLORIA LAGUNA-LBNO UP-GRADE BS-SCENE FP7 projects in the area of Research Infrastructures with Russian partners

The development of mega-science projects in Russia  Mega-science projects are not only about the prestige of a nation  They help focus resources on priority areas, and to make breakthroughs first in fundamental science and then in technology  Through implementation of such mega science projects, Russia can deal with the most crucial staffing problem and fight the brain drain  Russia will get six major research installations in the near-distant future selected from 28 applications  Each of six projects suggested for realization in Russia will need over 1.5 bullion rubles of government funding and will be completed in 10 years or less  Government should start by drafting a roadmap for each of the proposed projects

6 mega science projects in Russia  Tokamak fusion reactor called IGNITOR (Russia-Italy joint project open to accession of other international partners), Troitsk Institute for Innovation & Fusion Research (TRINITI).  High-flux research nuclear reactor (PIK) St.-Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics in Gatchina (in partnership with Germany and with probable involvement of North European and Baltic States).  Synchrotron light source, Multiturn Accelerator-Recuperator Source (MARS), National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute"  NICA, Nuclotron based Ion Collider Facility, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna.  Sub-Exawatt Laser based International Research Centre on Extreme Light Fields, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS), Nizhny Novgorod  Electron-Positron Collider Super C-Tau Factory Project, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk.

Established::: 22 nd February 2007 by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science on the basis of the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (MISIS) Main mission: to facilitate the cooperation between EU and Russia in the field of Research Infrastructures. FP7 Research Infrastructures National Contact Point

Events organized by FP7- RI NCP in Europe  The 1-st International Workshop-Exhibition “Strategy of Development of Large-scale Research Infrastructures of the Russian Federation & Cooperation with the European Union”, Athens, Greece, September 2008  The 2-nd International Workshop-Exhibition “Strategy of Development of Large-scale Research Infrastructures of the Russian Federation & Cooperation with the European Union”, the Russian Center of Science and Culture, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2009  The 3-d International Workshop “Strategy of Development of Large- Scale Research Infrastructures of the Russian Federation & Cooperation with the European Union”, Nancy, France, October 2010  The 4-th International Seminar "EU Russian Open Days", Vienna, Austria, October 25-26, 2011

Organizers: FP7 RI NCP, National University of Science and Technology «MISIS» ERC / Ideas NCP; Center for Advanced Studies of the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University The objective of the Conference is to discuss trends, challenges and opportunities of EU-Russia R&D and Innovation collaboration. The major focus is set on describing the existing European innovation policy instruments, sharing the experience of some most innovative EU countries.

European Network of NCPs for Research Infrastructures moving forward  Project acronym: EuroRIs-Net+  Programme acronym: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES  Project reference:  Duration: from to  Subprogramme area: INFRA Trans-national co-operation among NCPs  Contract type: Coordination and support actions  EU contribution: EUR EuroRIs-Net+ network consists of the 16 beneficiaries of the Grant Agreement Nr and the 20 Extended RI NCP Team Members

Enhancing the bilateral S&T partnership with the Russian Federation. BILAT-RUS Acronym of project: BILAT-RUS Duration: from to Project reference: Programme acronym: FP7-INCO Subprogramme area: INCO Bilateral coordination for the enhancement and development of S&T Partnerships EU contribution: EUR Partners: Germany (2), Austria (2), France (1) & Russia (5) + 4 Russian NCPs as associated partners Coordinator: International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research at the Project Management Agency c/o German Aerospace Center (DLR)

BILAT-RUS  BILAT-RUS focuses on enhancing the bilateral S&T Partnership between Russia and the EU Member States, Candidate Countries and other Associated Countries.  The project aims at contributing to the sustainable implementation of the Common Space on Research, Education and Culture between the EU and Russia and at further strengthening the participation of Russia in Community programmes – most prominently the FP7. Strategy:  Improving the process of providing information on programs and funding designed to promote cooperation between Europe and specific third countries;  Better identifying and demonstrating mutual interest and benefit in S&T cooperation;  Sharing best practices via joint fora and presenting the state-of-the-art and the prospects for cooperation in particular fields.

How to contact FP7 RI NCP

Research Infrastructures NCP Contact information Dr. Marine Melkonyan (Coordinator) Research Infrastructures NCP National University of Science and Technology «MISIS» Moscow, Leninsky prospect, 4 Tel.: Fax.: Web:fp7-infra.misis.rufp7-infra.misis.ru