1. Agnès Robin DG Research & Innovation Research Infrastructures
Marine Knowledge 2020 and EU Research Infrastructures action Marine Knowledge projects meeting Brussels, 12 October 2012
Agnès Robin
DG Research & Innovation
Research Infrastructures

2. Background: ERA, Innovation Union, ESFRI, ERIC
Marine Research Infrastructures projects (FP7)
Horizon 2020

3. European Research Area
"a unified research area open to the world based on the Internal Market, in which researchers, scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely and through which the Union and its Member States strengthen their scientific and technological bases, their competitiveness and their capacity to collectively address grand challenges."

4. Key areas of action: Researchers Research infrastructures
Knowledge sharing: Knowledge Transfer and Open Access
Joint Programming
International cooperation …

5. Commitments within Innovation Union
« By 2015 (…) have completed or launched the construction of 60% of the priority European research infrastructures currently identified by the ESFRI (…).
« … opening of Member State operated research infrastructures to the full European user community…»
« The European Union should step up its cooperation on the roll-out of the global research infrastructures. »

6. ESFRI – European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
Set up by the EU Council of Research Ministers in 2002
Brings together representatives of Ministers of the 27 Member States, 10 Associated States, and of the European Commission
To support the development of a European policy for Research Infrastructure and discuss a long term vision at European level
To facilitate multilateral initiatives leading to the better use and development of Research Infrastructures, at EU and international level
Mandate (2004) to develop a roadmap (2006) and its updates (2008, 2010): 48 projects, major financial investment (~20 b€) and long term commitment for operation (~2 b€/year)

7. ESFRI roadmap 2010
10+38 new - or major upgrade of - Research Infrastructures of pan-European interest
(+ 3 additional projects from the CERN Council strategic roadmap for particle physics*)
Social Sc. & Hum. ( 5 )
Life Sciences ( 13 )
Environmental and Earth Sciences ( 9 )
Energy ( 7 )
Material & Analytical Facilities ( 6 )
Physics & Astronomy ( 10 )
e-Infra- structures (1)
 SHARE
 BBMRI
ELIXIR
 ICOS
 EURO-ARGO
ECCSEL
EUROFEL
 ELI
TIARA*
PRACE
 ESSurvey
 ECRIN
INFRA FRONTIER
IAGOS
 LIFEWATCH
Windscanner
EMFL
KM3NeT
CTA
 CESSDA
INSTRUCT
 EATRIS
 EMSO
EPOS
EU-SOLARIS
European XFEL
E-ELT
SKA
 CLARIN
 EU-OPENSCREEN
 EMBRC
SIOS
EISCAT_3D
JHR
ESRF Upgrade
SPIRAL2
FAIR
DARIAH
Euro BioImaging
ERINHA BSL4 Lab
COPAL
IFMIF
NEUTRON ESS
SLHC-PP*
ILC-HiGRADE*
ISBE
MIRRI
HiPER
ILL20/20 Upgrade
ANAEE
MYRRHA
RIs in the implementation phase  ERIC set up  ERIC application  expected ERIC application
Distributed research infrastructures
Single sited research infrastructures

8. ERIC - European Research Infrastructure Consortium
(Council Regulation (EC) No 723/2009 of 25 June 2009)
A legal instrument at EU level, to facilitate the joint establishment and operation of RI of European interest.
Legal personality recognized in all Member States
Qualifies as an international organization for the purposes of VAT (exemption under certain limits and conditions from VAT and excise duties) and Public Procurement Directives 8

9. Background: ERA, Innovation Union, ESFRI, ERIC
Marine Research Infrastructures projects (FP7)
Horizon 2020

10. FP7 Research Infrastructures (1.7 B€)
Preparatory phases of ESFRI projects (210 M€)
Support to the construction of ESFRI projects (90 M€)
Integrating Activity networks (670 M€) supporting in particular access
e-Infrastructure projects (410 M€)
Design studies for new research infrastructures (45 M€)
Policy incl. int’l cooperation (75 M€)
Contribution to RSFF (200 M€ - access to debt financing) 10

11. FP7 contribution to ENV Sciences RIs
Biodiversity - ecosystems
EXPEER, SYNTHESIS, TREES4FUTURE, INCREASE, ANAEE, LIFEWATCH, CReATIVE-B
Atmospheric Sciences
ACTRIS, EUFAR, EUROCHAMP2, InGOS, COPAL, IAGOS, EISCAT_3D, ICOS, ARISE, ICARE-2010
Marine Sciences
EUROFLEETS, JERICO, MESOAQUA, SeaDataNet2/UP.BSS, EMSO, EURO-ARGO, GROOM, SIDERI...
...(ELIXIR), EMBRC, ASSEMBLE, AQUAEXCEL
Polar research
INTERACT, ERICON-AB, SIOS-PP
Climate Change
IS-ENES, INCREASE, EXPEER, MESOAQUA, ICOS, SIOS-PP
Other Earth Sciences
(NERA), EPOS, EISCAT_3D
Coordination & support (multidisciplinary)
ICT (ENVRI); Int'l coop (COOPEUS);
IA PP DS CSA

12. Beginning FP7, 1st ESFRI Roadmap
End FP7
Marine RIs
EMSO
GEOSTAR*(1995)… ESONET*(FP6)
(FixO3 ???)
EURO ARGO
Gyroscope*(FP5), MERSEA*(FP6)
SIDERI
MyOcean, MyOcean2*
GROOM
…MyOcean, EGO* (Cost FP7)
MFSTEP*(FP5)…
JERICO
MarinERA* (EraNet FP6)
EUROFLEETS (EUROFLEETS 2)
TA: RV Sonne, Sonars, Submersibles (FP5)
GMES, EEA, GEOSS, EMODNET, MSFD, INSPIRE…
SeaDataNet (FP6)
SeaDataNet II
Sea-Search*(2002)…
Black Sea Scene (FP6)
Upgrade Black Sea Scene
Geo-Seas
MESOAQUA
TA: MPFCR* (FP5)
iMarine
HYDRALAB IV
HYDRALAB III (FP6)
HYDRALAB (FP4, FP5)
IA PP DS CSA e-Infra …
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013 12

13. Marine RIs
Significant support from RIs actions + (past) RTD projects e.g. MAST… technological challenges due to hostile env't
Ship based exploration  multiplatform
Innovation (e.g. gliders, new sensors incl. biochemical)
Delayed data  quasi-real time
Interrelated approaches & scales: in situ/remote - observation/modelling – local/regional/global – short- term/long-term - multidisciplinary
“Dual” use: research / operational incl. monitoring (EU directives MSFD, Fisheries, GMES, GEOSS…) and… exploitation?
Well organised community (EU & int'l) – yet very distributed nature of some of the RIs: towards an "EOOS" (expert group on MRIs)?

14. SeaDataNet partner countries
NODCs + ICES + IOC-IODE + EU-JRC + technical experts
(Slides from Dick M.A. Schaap – MARIS, SeaDataNet Technical Coordinator)

15. 2002 – 2005: Sea-Search project (EU funding 3 ME)
Building a Pan-European infrastructure for ocean and marine data management
2002 – 2005: Sea-Search project (EU funding 3 ME)
Networking NODCs from 30 countries around European
seas: Focus on metadata
2006 – 2011: SeaDataNet project (EU funding 9 ME)
Connecting 40 NODCs from 35 countries around
European Seas: harmonisation of metadata services and
unified access to distributed archived data via central
portal
2011 – 2015: SeaDataNet II project (EU funding 6 ME)
robustness of services; machine-to-machine interfacing for specific communities; real-time data exchange; full INSPIRE compliance; improved capability for marine biological data

16. SeaDataNet infrastructure - services
Discovery services = Metadata directories
Delivery services = Data access & downloading of data sets
Viewing services = Visualisation of metadata, data and data products
Product services = Generic and standard products
Monitoring services = Statistics on usage and performance of the system
Security services = Authentication, Authorization & Administration
Maintenance services = Updating by Data Centres
A network of interconnected Data Centres and a central Portal, that gives users access to the various SeaDataNet services, and information on data management standards, tools and protocols.
Versatile tools for editing (MIKADO, NEMO, ..), analysis, interpolation and presentation of SeaDataNet data output (ODV, DIVA)

17. Common Data Index (CDI) Data Discovery and Access Service
CDI is a fine-grained index to individual data measurements. The CDI Service provides users a highly detailed insight and unified access to the large volumes of marine and oceanographic data sets
An intelligent middle tier connection is configured between the SeaDataNet portal and the local data management systems at each of the data centres.
A shopping basket allows users to submit a shopping request for multiple data providers in one go and to follow its processing by each of the providers via an online transaction register.
Providers include a data access restriction label in the CDI metadata which determines immediate access or negotiations in combination with the registered role of the user
Data are delivered to users in standard SeaDataNet formats (ODV ASCII and NetCDF (CF))

18. (FP6) SeaDataNet A successful data infrastructure
Enhancing the results of previous EC projects and initiatives on which it has been built
Bringing together the main European and Mediterranean NODCs and marine research institutes
Developing a common data infrastructure providing access to their data and metadata
Developing vocabularies and directories that are becoming the reference ones for marine sciences
Well integrated and/or cooperating with all the most relevant marine initiatives and projects as well as other environmental data initiatives
Strong impact on new initiatives, many of them adopting SDN architecture and solutions

19. Central hub for the dissemination of relevant information
Building a Framework for a Sustainable, Transatlantic Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Research Infrastructures
EU funding : 2 M€,
3 year grant from Sept.2012
Coord.: C. Waldmann, Bremen Univ., MARUM, DE
Central hub for the dissemination of relevant information
Facilitate data harmonisation, curation, and interoperability
Design of a new generation of interconnected RI and of working principles to provide a sustainable platform for data, information, and knowledge sharing
Articulate overall goals for 10 year EU-US collaboration on environmental infrastructures and cyber-infrastructures
Reaching consensus (readily extensible on a global scale) on instruments, standards, protocols, data, information, analytical & modeling capabilities, knowledge exchange
Addressing needs of research communities by implementing interworkability
Identifying critical needed breakthroughs for each community
Supporting GEOSS with information services particularly tuned to RI communities

20. Background: ERA, Innovation Union, ESFRI, ERIC
Marine Research Infrastructures projects (FP7)
Horizon 2020

21. From FP7 to Horizon 2020
An increased budget, from around €1.7 billion (FP7) to €2.5 billion (Horizon 2020 – 2011 constant prices)
New activities to support the implementation and operation of world-class infrastructures such as ESFRI infrastructures
Continuation of the successful FP7 Integrating Activities
Reinforcement of the support to e-infrastructures
New objective of better exploiting the innovation potential and human capital of infrastructures

22. Societal challenges (31 743 M€) Industrial leadership (17 938 M€)
Horizon 2020
Excellent science ( M€, constant 2011 prices)
European Research Council ( M€)
Future and Emerging Technologies (3 100 M€)
Marie Curie actions (5 752 M€)
European Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructures) (2 478 M€)
Societal challenges ( M€)
Industrial leadership ( M€)
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
(8 028 M€)
Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine -maritime research, bio-economy (4 152 M€)
Secure, clean and efficient energy (5 782 M€)
Smart, green, integrated transport (6 802 M€)
Climate action, resource efficiency, raw materials (3 160 M€)
Inclusive, innovative and secure societies
(3 819 M€)
Leadership in enabling and
industrial technologies (ICT, space, nanotechnologies, advanced materials and advanced manufacturing and processing, biotechnology) ( M€)
Access to risk finance (3 538 M€)
Innovation in SMEs (619 M€)
EIT (1 364 B€ B€)
JRC (non-nuclear: M€)

23. Research Infrastructures
4.1. Developing the European RIs for 2020 and beyond
4.1.1 Developing new world-class RIs
4.1.2 Integrating and opening national RIs of pan-European interest
4.1.3 Development, deployment and operation of ICT based e-Infrastructures
4.2. Fostering the innovation potential of RIs & their human capital
4.3. Reinforcing European RI policy and international cooperation
Main actions
Specific actions
Policy actions

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