1. Technology Transfer at ELI-ERIC / ELITRANS
Aleš Hála
15 November 2017

2. ELI Pan-European project
ELI will be the world’s first truly international laser research infrastructure, pursuing unique science and research applications for users
ELI will be implemented as a distributed research infrastructure based initially on 3 specialised and complementary facilities located in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania
ELI is the first ESFRI project to be fully implemented in EU 13 Member States
ELI is pioneering a novel funding model combining the use of structural funds (ERDF) for the implementation and contributions to an ERIC for operation
Investment of 850 mil. EUR from ERDF in CZ, HU and RO

3. ELITRANS project towards ELI ERIC
Joint
Initiation
Parallel
Implementation
Now
Joint
Operation
ELI-Beamlines (CZ)
European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure
ELI
Femtosecond Laser Pulses
ESFRI
ELI-PP
ELI-ALPS (H)
Attosecond Light Pulse Source
ELI-Preparatory Phase
ELI-NP (RO)
Nuclear Physics
ELITRANS
2006
2007
2010
2011
2013
2017
2018
ELI-DC AISBL
PP Consortium
MoU
ELI-ERIC
ELI-Delivery Consortium

4. ELITRANS ELITRANS mission The main objectives of ELITRANS
Enabling ELI’s transformation from European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) funding towards European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) distributed research infrastructure model
The main objectives of ELITRANS
Conceptual Design of the future ELI-ERIC “Business Model”: essential elements of the future ELI ERIC organization, financing, governance and international integration
Preparing ELI ERIC’s “Business Plan”: development of concepts adapted to the operation as the world’s first international laser user facility
Managing the transition from Structural Funds supported implementation towards the ERIC funded operation: merging the three facilities into one unified internal structure, developing a corporate identity, strengthening user relations, developing the scientific profile, international visibility and leadership

5. Beneficiaries & Linked Third Parties
The mission of the PRACE Research Infrastructure (RI) ( is to enable high-impact European scientific discovery and engineering research and development across all disciplines to enhance European competitiveness for the benefit of society. The PRACE RI seeks to realize this mission through the provision of access to world class high performance computing, data management, resources and services open to all European researchers through a peer review process. Through the broad participation of European governments and their representative organizations, a diversity of resources can be provided by the PRACE RI, including expertise throughout Europe in effectively usage of the available resources. PRACE has an extensive pan-European education and training effort devoted to help users as well as preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers.
The PRACE RI is established as an international non-profit association with seat in Brussels and is named ‘Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe AISBL’. It has 25 member countries whose representative organizations are creating a pan-European supercomputing infrastructure, delivering world-class services to the European research community with large-scale computing and storage resource, support and training needs.
KIT
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was established by the merging of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH and the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) on October 01, KIT combines the tasks of a university of the state of Baden-Württemberg with those of a research center of the Helmholtz Association in the areas of research, teaching, and innovation in one mission: KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association. In research and education, KIT assumes responsibility for contributing to the sustainable solution of the grand challenges that face the society, industry, and the environment with a focus on energy, mobility and information. With a staff of about 9300 employees and 25,000 students, KIT is one of the big institutions of research and higher education in natural sciences and engineering in Europe. The Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) is the computing centre of KIT and supports the IT-demands of the multi-disciplinary research at KIT and the Helmholtz-Association of German research centres. R&D at SCC focuses on computational science and engineering, data life cycle management of scientific data, IT management and federated identity management. It operates HPC systems and GridKa, one of twelve Tier-1 centres worldwide being responsible for the storage and analysis of a significant part of data from the LHC experiments at CERN. More recently SCC constructed the Large Scale Data Facility (LSDF), a facility which is close to innovation and the development of future concepts for storage, archival and analysis of scientific data. SCC successfully participated in many EU projects and currently contributes to AARC, EUDAT2020, INDIGO DataCloud and Human Brain Project (HBP).
EGI
The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI)  provides integrated computing services to European researchers, driving innovation and enabling new solutions to answer the big questions of tomorrow. EGI is a federation of resource providers set up to deliver sustainable, integrated and secure computing services to European researchers and their international partners. The federation is coordinated by the EGI Foundation, a non-for-profit organisation established in 2010 in Amsterdam to manage EGI on behalf of its participants: National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) and European Intergovernmental Research Organisations (EIROs).

6. Work package structure
WP1 Management
WP2 ERIC
WP3 ICT
WP4 Diagnostics
WP5 Targetry
WP6 Knowledge and Technology Transfer
WP7 EHS & Radiation Safety
The mission of the PRACE Research Infrastructure (RI) ( is to enable high-impact European scientific discovery and engineering research and development across all disciplines to enhance European competitiveness for the benefit of society. The PRACE RI seeks to realize this mission through the provision of access to world class high performance computing, data management, resources and services open to all European researchers through a peer review process. Through the broad participation of European governments and their representative organizations, a diversity of resources can be provided by the PRACE RI, including expertise throughout Europe in effectively usage of the available resources. PRACE has an extensive pan-European education and training effort devoted to help users as well as preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers.
The PRACE RI is established as an international non-profit association with seat in Brussels and is named ‘Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe AISBL’. It has 25 member countries whose representative organizations are creating a pan-European supercomputing infrastructure, delivering world-class services to the European research community with large-scale computing and storage resource, support and training needs.
KIT
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was established by the merging of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH and the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) on October 01, KIT combines the tasks of a university of the state of Baden-Württemberg with those of a research center of the Helmholtz Association in the areas of research, teaching, and innovation in one mission: KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association. In research and education, KIT assumes responsibility for contributing to the sustainable solution of the grand challenges that face the society, industry, and the environment with a focus on energy, mobility and information. With a staff of about 9300 employees and 25,000 students, KIT is one of the big institutions of research and higher education in natural sciences and engineering in Europe. The Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) is the computing centre of KIT and supports the IT-demands of the multi-disciplinary research at KIT and the Helmholtz-Association of German research centres. R&D at SCC focuses on computational science and engineering, data life cycle management of scientific data, IT management and federated identity management. It operates HPC systems and GridKa, one of twelve Tier-1 centres worldwide being responsible for the storage and analysis of a significant part of data from the LHC experiments at CERN. More recently SCC constructed the Large Scale Data Facility (LSDF), a facility which is close to innovation and the development of future concepts for storage, archival and analysis of scientific data. SCC successfully participated in many EU projects and currently contributes to AARC, EUDAT2020, INDIGO DataCloud and Human Brain Project (HBP).
EGI
The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI)  provides integrated computing services to European researchers, driving innovation and enabling new solutions to answer the big questions of tomorrow. EGI is a federation of resource providers set up to deliver sustainable, integrated and secure computing services to European researchers and their international partners. The federation is coordinated by the EGI Foundation, a non-for-profit organisation established in 2010 in Amsterdam to manage EGI on behalf of its participants: National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) and European Intergovernmental Research Organisations (EIROs).

7. Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT)
In-house research
2012+
User facility
2018+
Required beamtime
Infrastructure requirements: support laboratories, dedicated support personnel, utilities
IP rights: common/shared, or exclusive for the industrial user
Type of access: beamtime with ELI staff assistance, collaborative research with the ELI staff
Legal and ethical issues
Technologies for applications
IP protection – patenting
Business Development
Technologies
Instrumentation
Software
Legal support
Grants (Financing projects)

8. Work package 6 KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
WP6 Objectives
The goal of WP6 is to introduce a sustainable model of KTT for ELI ERIC considering the regional, national and international socio-economic impact of all ELI pillars.
Deliverables
IP policy for ELI ERIC
Industrial users analysis
Access and collaboration strategy of ELI ERIC towards industry

9. IP policy for ELI ERIC General IP management scheme
in-house research at ELI-ERIC
user facilities including the proprietary / non-proprietary exploitation of results
co-operation of third persons
Methods and procedures for disclosure, identification, obtaining, evaluating protecting and commercializing IP
Access rights and priority rules of third parties to IP generated in the framework of ELI ERIC
Unified remuneration schemes for inventors in case of inventions of ELI ERIC
Principles of the manuscript notification, publication, and Open Access provisions in case of IP generated in the framework of ELI ERIC
IP valuation scheme for ELI ERIC

10. IP policy for ELI ERIC – off-record
Pragmatic attitude, long-term vision
Value for money
Return on investment
Fair conditions both for industry and ELI ERIC researchers
Know-how (trade secret) protection and commercialisation, e.g. no patents needed for commercialisation
If not suitable for market, publish it
Patent families strategy
Even patent is published after 18 months
Less patents, more revenues…

11. Industrial users analysis
Proprietary Project Approval Panel
Support laboratories (ELI ERIC staff will specify if the required equipment is available and specify the price, for example bio labs)
Support personnel (what kind of personnel specialisation and duration of assistance)
Proprietary / Non-Proprietary access
Legal and ethical issues

12. Access and collaboration strategy of ELI ERIC towards industry
Covering document showing available strategies to access industrial clients
Industrial outreach activities
Legal background of collaboration
Beamtime and services pricing
Services and support during an experiment
Aftercare services
Internal and client‘s feedback

13. Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer at ELI Beamlines
Established in 2012
Operational for ELI Beamlines, Hilase and Institute of Physics AS CR
7 team members
Business Development managers
IP manager
Lawyer
Financial manager
Marketing and administrative support
50+ technology transfer and commercialisation / contract research projects for Institute of Physics, ELI Beamlines and Hilase

14. Homework
Model of TTO and/or ILO offices across 3 different countries with one single
Legal, technical and financial issues
Cost / profit sharing in IP valorisation and commercialisation
Common technology understanding
Performance measurement

15. Invitation
Workshop for industrial users of ELI ERIC
ELI Beamlines, Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
31 May 2018
Introduction to technologies of interest to industrial companies
In the framework of the ELITRANS project

16. for your attention! ales.hala@eli-beams.eu +420 702 004 931W:
ELI Beamlines
ELI Beamlines