1. 1 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES in FP7 EUDET I3 Kickoff meeting, Desy, Hamburg 15-17/2/2006 Presentation by Stefano Fontana, DG Research

2. 2 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES Research Infrastructures in FP7 l Term refers to “facilities”, “resources” or “services” that are needed by the research community to conduct research in all scientific and technological fields l Definition covers: major equipments, knowledge based resources (collections, archives, …), enabling ICT-based infrastructures (Géant, Grids,..) and any other entity of a unique nature used for research

3. 3 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES Research Infrastructures in FP7 Objectives: l To optimise the use, development and integration of the best research infrastructures existing in Europe l To help create new research infrastructures of pan- European interest (or major upgrades of existing ones) l Open to all fields of science and technology

4. 4 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES Activities in FP7 l For existing research infrastructures - Transnational Access -Integrating Activities -ICT based e-infrastructures l For new research infrastructures (incl. major upgrades) - Design Studies - Construction of New Infrastructures

5. 5 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES Existing research infrastructures in FP7 Objective: To optimise their use, development and integration - Transnational Access: to support new opportunities for research teams to obtain access to the best research infrastructures - Integrating Activities: to integrate European infrastructures and promote their coherent use and development (networking + transnational access + joint research activities) - ICT based e-infrastructures: to foster development of high- capacity and high-performance communication (GÉANT) and grid infrastructures Implementation : bottom-up calls for proposals open to all fields of science + targeted calls in close cooperation thematic areas in FP7

6. 6 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES New research infrastructures in FP7 Objective: To help create new research infrastructures of pan-European interest (or major upgrades of existing ones) - Design studies:to support feasibility studies for new infrastructures through approach of calls for proposals - Construction of new infrastructures (incl. major upgrades): to promote the creation of new infrastructures through a strategic approach based on the work conducted by ESFRI* on the development of a European roadmap fro new research infrastructures * ESFRI – European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures

7. 7 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES New research infrastructures in FP7 Construction via a two-stage process: l The preparatory phase - restricted calls targeting priority projects (based on the work of ESFRI)  to support finalisation of construction plans, legal organisation, financial engineering, management aspects l The construction phase - developed following the satisfactory implementation of the preparatory phase - “case by case” approach (e.g. use of Article 171)

8. 8 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES Timetable Timetable for FP7 adoption l 6 April 2005FP7 proposal l 21 September 2005Specific Prog. proposals l June 2006 ?Adoption l November 2006 ?First calls for proposals l January 2007 ?Launch Conference

9. 9 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES l Research Infrastructures on CORDIS  http://www.cordis.lu/infrastructures/ l ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Unfrastructures)  http://www.cordis.lu/esfri/ Useful links