Research and Innovation

Research Infrastructures from FP7 to Horizon 2020

Brigitte Sambain

DG Research & Innovation

Research Infrastructures – Unit B3

Funding opportunities under R&I and Mobility schemes in the Fields of Pharmacuetical and

Medical Biotechnologies, ENEA, Brussels, 20 June 2012

Imaging facilities

Bioinformatics resources

Genomics and

Proteomics

facilities

Biological Resource

Centres

Medical research facilities

Research Infrastructures for the Life Sciences

Food and agriculture research facilities

Why a EU approach?

• To open access to the research infrastructures existing in the individual Member State to all European researchers

• To avoid duplication of effort and to coordinate and rationalise the use of these research infrastructures

• To trigger the exchange of best practice, develop interoperability of facilities and resources, develop the training of the next generation of researchers

• To connect national research communities and increase the overall quality of the research and innovation

• To help pooling resources so that the Union can also acquire and operate research infrastructures at world level

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

• Supports a coherent and strategy-led approach to policy making on Research Infrastructures

• Mandate to develop a Roadmap (2006) and its updates (2008, 2010)

• Contains 48 projects

• Requiring major financial investment (~20 b€) and long term commitment for operation (~2 b€/year)

Imaging facilities

• EUROBIOIMAGING – Imaging facilities

Biological Resource Centres

• BBMRI - Biobanks and Biomolecular Resources

• EMBRC - Marine biology resources

• EU-OPENSCREEN - Chemical libraries

• INFRAFRONTIER - Mouse archives and clinics

• MIRRI – Microbial resources

Genomics and proteomics facilities

• INSTRUCT - Structural biology facilities

Bioinformatics resources

• ELIXIR – Data repositories

• ISBE – Infrastructure for systems biology

Medical research facilities

• EATRIS - Translational research facilities

• ECRIN - Clinical trial plateform

• ERINHA - High-security labs

• A new legal framework, at EU level, to facilitate the joint establishment and operation of Research Infrastructures of European interest among several countries

• A legal personality recognised in all EU Member States

• Current status for Life Sciences:

− Applications submitted: ECRIN, EATRIS

− Other applications under preparation: BBRMI

ERIC: European Research Infrastructure Consortium

• 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 measures (75 M€)

• Contribution to RSFF (200 M€)

FP7 Research Infrastructures (1.7 B€)

Legend: Red: Preparatory Phase project Green: e-infrastructure project

Blue: Integrating Activity project Black: Other

Bioinformatics resources ELIXIR, SLING, IMPACT, BioMedBridges

FP7 projects for Life Sciences

Medical research facilities ERINHA, EATRIS, ECRIN,

ECRIN-IA, Transvac, ULICE

Genomics and proteomics research facilities INSTRUCT, Bio-NMR, East-NMR, Pcube, BioStruct-X,

ESGI, Prime-XS, eNMR, WeNMR, ERA-Instruments

Food and agriculture

research facilities NADIR, AQUAEXCEL, EPPN,

Trees4Future, transPLANT, ERIN

Biological Resource Centres BBMRI, EMBRC, EU-Openscreen, INFRAFRONTIER EMMAservices, EMBaRC,

EVA, Infravec, EUPRIMnet-II, Assemble, InfraComp

Imaging facilities Euro-BioImaging, neuGRID, outGRID, DECIDE, N4U

(42 projects, ~ 231 M€ of EU funding)

Thematic coverage

• Broad thematic coverage, corresponding to priorities as expressed in several national roadmaps for infrastructures

• Still, several categories of infrastructures not covered by FP7 projects − Plant genetic resources, experimental farms, food analysis

facilities, transcriptomics facilities, metabolomics facilities, GMP facilities for therapy, etc.

• All funded FP7 infrastructures for Life Sciences, including e-infrastructures, do contribute to addressing societal challenges − Health, demographic change and wellbeing − Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime

research, and the bio-economy

GERD (B€, 2009)

>25

10-25

5-10

<5

Access to Life Sciences RIs

4 8

26

27

23

4

11 1

11 3

4

3

7 7

3

12

2

2 1 5

2

FP7: 169 RIs

Third countries: 1 2

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0 0

0

0

0

0

0

0

FP6: 16 RIs

0 2 5

0

0 1

0

0 3

0 0

0

1

0

0

2 1

0 0

Third countries: 0

0

1

0

0

0 0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Overall impact

• The Framework Programme offered an opportunity for infrastructure communities to get structured

• 2/3 of the infrastructures identified by ESFRI were previously supported by FP projects

• Users under FP7: ~13 000 estimated hands-on users, >100 000 web-based users

Impact Examples from projects

• Excellent and innovative research based on access funding

− Drought resistance: Structure of the plant receptor for abscisic acid published in 2009 in Nature 462:665-668 (PCUBE)

• Training of users

− More than 500 users across Europe trained to bioinformatics services (SLING)

Impact Examples from projects

• Development of unified services

− Distributed EMMA repository with 2200 mouse strains, and one single entry point (EMMAservices)

• Development of virtual services

− A virtual laboratory where to analyze image databases on persons with neurodegenerative diseases (N4U)

• Sharing best practices

− Handbook, DVD and more than 30 courses for personnel working with non-human primates (EUPRIM-Net)

Impact Examples from projects

• Development of common standards and interoperability

− Towards a unique global infrastructure (EU, USA,CA) for neuro-images (outGRID)

• Development of innovative prototypes and methods

− A tracking system prototype for 4D ion radiotherapy (ULICE)

Conclusions from FP7

• A leading role for supporting, structuring and integrating European research infrastructures, and thus for building the ERA − A trigger for longer-term cooperation − A broad scientific coverage − A broad geographic coverage − An increased and facilitated access

• Some future challenges − Address thematic gaps − Address properly the data challenge − Reinforce cooperation with other actions to better respond to

grand challenges, e.g. FET Flagships and JPIs − Develop international cooperation − Better measure and communicate the impact of the programme

Industrial leadership (17 938 M€) Societal challenges (31 743 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€)

• 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€)

• Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (ICT, space,

nanotechnologies, advanced materials and advanced manufacturing and processing, biotechnology) (13 781 M€)

• Access to risk finance (3 538 M€) • Innovation in SMEs (619 M€)

EIT (1 364 B€ + 1 461 B€) JRC (non-nuclear: 1 961 M€)

Excellent science (24 598 M€, constant 2011 prices)

Horizon 2020

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

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

Next steps for Horizon 2020

Ongoing Parliament and Council negotiations on the basis of the Commission proposals

Ongoing Parliament and Council negotiations on EU budget 2014-2020 (including overall budget for Horizon 2020)

Mid 2012 Final calls under 7th Framework Programme for research to bridge gap towards Horizon 2020

Mid 2013 Adoption of legislative acts by Parliament and Council on Horizon 2020

1/1/2014 Horizon 2020 starts, launch of first calls

Structural Funds

• Developing synergies between the Structural funds and Horizon 2020 is a priority of the European Commission

• More specific reference to research infrastructures "of European interest" is made in the European Commission proposal for the European Regional Development Fund

• Also, Horizon 2020 foresees support to activities dedicated to developing cooperation between research infrastructures and other Union policies, such as Cohesion, through relevant studies and communication tasks

• Europe 2020 http://ec.europa.eu/eu2020

• Innovation Union http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union

• Horizon 2020 http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020

• FP7 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/

• EC Research Infrastructures and ESFRI http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures

• EC Regional Policy http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy

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