Overview on European e-Infrastructure

Augusto BurgueñoDG CONNECTPorto, 18 June 2015 – GÉANT General Assembly

Plan

Policy framework: Digital Single Market

Intervention mechanisms:Juncker plan and Structural fundsHorizon 2020

e-infrastructuresICT-Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT)

Policy framework: Digital Single Market

1. 1. Better access for consumers and business to online goods and services across Europe

2. 2. Creating the right conditions for digital networks and services to flourish

3. 3. Maximising the growth potential of our European Digital Economy

2. Creating the right conditions for digital networks and services to flourish

• Requires high-speed, secure and trustworthy infrastructures and content services

3. Maximising the growth potential of our European Digital Economy

• Requires investment in ICT infrastructures and technologies such as Cloud computing and Big Data, and research and innovation to boost industrial competitiveness as well as better public services, inclusiveness and skills

e-infrastructures play a key in the DSM• To seize the socio-economic opportunity offered by the

ability to share and exchange data, "in huge volumes, over vast distances, across disciplines and institutions"

• By providing a reliable data and computing e-infrastructure at European level

• By being the foundation of the Research Open Science Cloud

• By leveraging the Research and Open Science Cloud for the benefit of wider user base (research, private industry and government) while addressing long-term sustainability

COUNCIL conclusions on 'Open, data-intensive & networked research as a driver for faster and wider innovation'

• UNDERLINES that e-infrastructure is one of the key elements for research and innovation focused on data or benefiting from it

• ACKNOWLEDGES the need to develop the new generation of HPC technologies and CALLS for the reinforcement of the interconnected network of data processing facilities GEANT

GÉANT and Digital Single Market• Essential player to address the digital divide in Europe

through a common cost sharing model effectively enabling equal access to IT resources in Europe

• Maximise the value of innovation in a cooperative, open and multi-domain eco-system

• Cooperation at European and global levels to minimise divergent, redundant, overlapping and incompatible investments on the whole REN ecosystem

• Stimulate advancement of the combined REN infrastructures to tackle cross-border links

In short

• By making of Europe the best connected region in the world, GÉANT directly contributes to the European Digital Single Market strategy

Intervention mechanisms

First recital of the Regulation on the European Fund for Strategic Investments:

[…] There is a need to strengthen the attractiveness of investing in Europe and in the infrastructure of a modern knowledge economy.

EFSI Investment Platforms

Enable projects to receive financial contribution from multiple sources

(European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the European

Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and others

Juncker Investment Plan

Digital game changer

High-performance data networks "Digital Game Changer" is being proposed for the EU Investment Plan "Juncker Package"

• deployment and connecting high-performance computing facilities

• high-speed trans-European network

• connected large and small data centres

Horizon 2020

• Research e-infrastructures

• ICT-Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (ICT-LEIT)

Draft e-infrastructures WP2016-2017

Underlying principles

• Towards e-infrastructures that are:

• User centric

• Service oriented

• Sustainable

• Innovative

3 themes1 - Integration and consolidation of e-infrastructure platforms supporting European policies and research and education communities• Support Pan-European HPC infrastructure and services (PRACE)• Data and Distributed Computing e-infrastructures for Open Science• GÉANT Partnership projects (integration)

2 - Prototyping innovative e-infrastructure platforms and services for research and education communities, industry and citizens at large• Platform-Driven e-infrastructure innovation• GÉANT Partnership projects (platform driven innovation)• User-driven e-infrastructure innovation• Interactive Computing for the Human Brain Project FET Flagship (FPA)

3 - Support to policies and international cooperation

Integration and consolidation of e-infrastructuresResearch and education communities require and expect stable e-infrastructures to provide 24/7 services (high-speed networking, high-performance and distributed computing and research data)

from "RI/e-Infra scoping paper":

"Fostering long term sustainability of Research Infrastructures:addressing the challenge of sustainable funding entails establishing a solid foundation to manage investment cycles in research infrastructures and e-infrastructures while ensuring scientific excellence and widening access to the key research and education resources. It also requires improving the coordination of different sources of financing at Member States, European and, when applicable, global levels."

Prototyping innovative platforms & services

e-Infrastructure platforms and services need to evolve through innovation actions to respond to the long-term needs of research and education communities, industry and the citizens at large.

The support to e-infrastructure innovation is done by means of two types of activities:

(a)Platform-driven e-infrastructure innovation(b)User-driven e-infrastructure innovation

The new architecture sets the conditions for a better cooperation and integration of e-infrastructure services

• fostering projects involving e-RI operators and user communities (integrate state-of the art technologies and co-design)

• ensuring operations are stable and funded with no temporal gaps

• supports the persistent and reliable operation of e-RI used every-day by the research and education communities

In addition …

• avoid funding overlaps opening for new initiatives

• RI, e-RI coordination will be reinforced in WP2016-17 by alignment with the European policy context of Open Science

• all activities that were possible in the previous structure are still possible in the new WP architecture

EC FundingWP2016-2017 eInfra

WP structure with corresponding budgetsTopic Budget

(M€)

1 - Integration and consolidation of e-infrastructure platforms supporting European policies and research and education communities (55)

EINFRA-1.1-2016/17 - Support to the next implementation phase of Pan-European High Performance Computing infrastructure and services 15

EINFRA-1.2-2016/17 - Data and Distributed Computing e-infrastructures for Open Science 402 - Prototyping innovative e-infrastructure platforms and services for research and education communities, industry and the citizens at large (67)

EINFRA-2.1-2016/17 – platform-driven e-infrastructure innovation 46

EINFRA-2.2-2016/17 – user-driven e-infrastructure innovation 21

3 - Support to policies and international cooperation (10)

EINFRA-3.1-2016/17 - Support to policies and international cooperation  

Other actions including different type of instruments:

(a) FPA - GÉANT Partnership Projects (64)

(b) FPA - Computing and storage e-infrastructure for the Human Brain Project FET Flagship (FPA) (25)

 Total 221

PENDING FORMAL ADOPTION

EC FundingWP2016-2017 LEIT

WP structure with corresponding budgetsTopic

Budget (M€)

ADVANCED COMPUTING AND CLOUD COMPUTING (45)ICT-06-2016: Cloud Computing 45

FUTURE INTERNET (203)ICT-07-2017: 5G PPP Research and Validation of critical technologies and systems 100ICT-08-2017: 5G PPP Convergent Technologies 40ICT-09-2017: Networking research beyond 5G 18ICT-12-2016: Net Innovation Initiative (FIWARE) 20ICT-13-2016: Future Internet Experimentation - Building a European experimental Infrastructure (FIRE+) 25

CONTENT (96)ICT-14-2016-2017: Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration and experimentation 27ICT-15-2016-2017: Big Data PPP: Large Scale Pilot actions in sectors best benefitting from data-driven innovation 25ICT-16-2017: Big data PPP: research addressing main technology challenges of the data economy 31ICT-17-2016-2017: Big data PPP: Support, industrial skills, benchmarking and evaluation 5ICT-18-2016: Big data PPP: privacy-preserving big data technologies 8

 Total 344

PENDING FORMAL ADOPTION

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