1. 1 HORIZON 2020 EU enabling global research: connectivity, data, computation, co-operation eAGE 2014 Conference, Muscat, Oman 10-11 December 2014 Aniyan Varghese European Commission - DG CONNECT

2. 2 Vision

3. 3 Approach Transversal Cutting across disciplines and sectors Support tomorrow ’ s science Open science, open access, best solutions Enabling innovation Developing and testing innovative solutions Servicing industry and SMEs Spinning out technologies

4. 4 MORE COMPUTING POWER BIG DATA GLOBAL CONNECTIONS GLOBAL PARTICIPATION OPEN IS BETTER WITHIN AND BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

5. 5 MIT Technology Review, 2012 Future of learning technology - 2015, Amit Grag, 2010

6. 6 Business and the Digital Universe, IDC, 2012

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9. 9 GÉANT Communication Commons for 50 million users in over 10,000 institutions across 40 countries 50000 km of cross-borders links including 12000 km of dark fiber range of innovative services operated 24x7 including wifi federated access – eduroam – growing at 100%+ y/y and adopted WW Federated access to content – eduGAIN – adopted WW Globally connected to all peering regional clusters in the world as well as to developed countries Open innovation through open competitive call attracting 70 proposals of which 21 were selected for a total EC funding of 3.3 M€

10. 10 e-Infrastructure integrates resources and services… NetworkingComputingDataSoftware User interfaces e-Infrastructure to support: Research under Horizon 2020Research under Horizon 2020 Open Access policyOpen Access policy Open Data pilotOpen Data pilot Data Management PlanningData Management Planning …

11. 11 Global Virtual Research Community e- Infrastructure (Grid empowered) e- Infrastructure (Grid empowered) security mobility semantic web. automatic management broadband e-Learning e-Business neuroscience genomics environment biomedicine e-Health e-Science Grid

12. 12 network infrastructure, GÉANT HPC/distributed computing/software infrastructure scientific data infrastructure e-infrastructure building bridges

13. 13 Development of common reference model, standards, and common components for data pre-processing and post-processing Contribution to GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) and compliance with INSPIRE EC Directive Large participation of ICT and e-infrastructures actors (key partners from D4SCIENCE, GENESI, EGI, EUDAT, PRACE…) EPOS EURO- ARGO ICOS SIOS EMSO EISCAT LIFE- WATCH EU funding : 3.7 M€, started in 2011 Implementation cluster for Environment ENVRI

14. 14 Industrial & Engineering Weather, Climate & Earth Sciences Fundamental sciences: Physics, Chemistry, Material Sciences, Astrophysics Bio/Life Sciences New applications e.g. Health, Big data Importance of HPC

15. 15 European HPC Strategy – an integrated approach in H2020 Basis : Commission Communication "High-Performance Computing: Europe's place in a Global Race" (2012) Vision: to ensure European leadership in the supply and use of HPC systems and services by 2020 in a strategy combining: (a)developing the next generation of HPC towards exascale; (b)providing access to the best HPC infrastructure for both industry and academia; (c)achieving excellence in computing applications - existing or new – driven by the needs of science, industry and SMEs  Linking demand and supply – in the spirit of Horizon 2020  Contractual Public-Private Partnership (cPPP) covering (a) and part of (c)

16. 16 Research Data become the infrastructure for modern science Europe is Riding the Wave  Data e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use and trust of data  Physical and technical infrastructure become invisible and the data becomes the infrastructure  Valuable asset on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance Commission Communication on Scientific Information COM(2012)401 final (July 2012) Access, preservation and e-infrastructure (publications and data) ERA Communication COM(2012)392 Federation of researcher electronic identities Riding the Wave High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, October 2010 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e- infrastructure/docs/hlg-sdi-report.pdf

17. Distribution of 2,353 Individual RDA Members in 96 Countries 12 September 2014 Map courtesy traveltip.orgtraveltip.org Austral-pacific 5% Africa 3% South America 1% Asia 5%

18. 18 World Class Connectivity and Services to Knowledge Communities Support Growth and Opening up Help to close digital divides Europe as global hub Stimulate innovation Reorganize for 2020 Flexibility in Technology and Architecture Experimentation and standardisation Improve Governance Step up Funding Update the Regulatory Regime GÉANT Experts Group Report

19. 19 International cooperation actions / 2014-2015 Coordinated calls EU-Brazil (7 M€) Cloud computing, including security aspects High performance computing Experimental platforms EU-Japan (6 M€) Technologies combining big data, internet of things in the cloud Optical communications Acces networks for densely located users Experimentation and development on federated Japan-EU testbeds International partnership building and support to dialogues with high income countries (USA, Canada, East Asia and Oceania) (3 M€) International partnership building in low and middle income countries (11 M€) 21 M €

20. 20 e-Infrastructure policy development and international cooperation (call closed) Coordination and Support Actions for: Information dissemination and sharing on and between projects Stakeholder initiatives, including user forum Policy coordination at EU or regional level, including collection of information for policy-making Monitoring results and impacts of H2020 e-infrastructure activities Monitoring and analysing the take-up of eScience and e- infrastructures Technology transfer from e-infrastructure projects to market Cooperation with developing countries and regions Budget 5M€ in 2014; Call closed 02/09/2014 Selection Results will be announced soon

21. 21 ' Question for discussion? How can you be a part of the global research and play an active role?

22. THANK YOU Dr Aniyan Varghese aniyan.varghese@ec.europa.eu European Commission – DG CONNECT Excellence in Science, eInfrastructure