Related presentation: Marine Knowledge Meeting, 11-12 Oct 2012, Brussels: All About iMarine

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

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

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." Research and
Innovation

4. Key areas of action:
1. Researchers
2. Research infrastructures
3. Knowledge sharing: Knowledge
Transfer and Open Access
4. Joint Programming
5. International cooperation
6. …
Research and
Innovation

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. »
Research & Innovation

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)
Research & Innovation

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

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
Research & Innovation

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

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)
Research & Innovation

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 ...(ELIXIR), EMBRC, ASSEMBLE, AQUAEXCEL
EUROFLEETS, JERICO, MESOAQUA, SeaDataNet2/UP.BSS, EMSO, EURO-ARGO, GROOM, SIDERI...
Polar research Climate Change
INTERACT, ERICON-AB, SIOS-PP IS-ENES, INCREASE, EXPEER, MESOAQUA, ICOS, SIOS-PP
Other Earth Sciences Coordination & support (multidisciplinary)
(NERA), EPOS, EISCAT_3D ICT (ENVRI); Int'l coop (COOPEUS);
IA PP DS CSA Policy
Research and
Innovation

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

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)? Policy
Research and
Innovation

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

15. 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)
www.seadatanet.org

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

19. 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)Workshop
Mar 30, 2011 – 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. 1. Background: ERA, Innovation Union,
ESFRI, ERIC
2. Marine Research Infrastructures
projects (FP7)
3. Horizon 2020
Research and
Innovation

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
Policy
Research and
Innovation

22. Horizon 2020
Excellent science (24 598 M€, constant 2011 prices)
• European Research Council (13 268 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 (31 743 M€) Industrial leadership (17 938 M€)
• Health, demographic change and wellbeing • Leadership in enabling and
(8 028 M€) industrial technologies (ICT, space,
• Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine - nanotechnologies, advanced
maritime research, bio-economy (4 152 M€) materials and advanced
• Secure, clean and efficient energy (5 782 M€) manufacturing and processing,
• Smart, green, integrated transport (6 802 M€) biotechnology) (13 781 M€)
• Climate action, resource efficiency, raw materials • Access to risk finance (3 538 M€)
(3 160 M€) • Innovation in SMEs (619 M€)
• Inclusive, innovative and secure societies
(3 819 M€)
EIT (1 364 B€ + 1 461 B€) Policy
Research and
Innovation JRC (non-nuclear: 1 961 M€)

23. Research Infrastructures
• 4.1. Developing the European RIs for 2020 and beyond
 4.1.1 Developing new world-class RIs Main actions
 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 Specific actions
• 4.3. Reinforcing European RI policy and international
cooperation Policy actions
Policy
Research and
Innovation

24. Thank you for your attention!
Find out more:
www.ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures
www.ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
Research and
Innovation