National Delegate & NCP for European Research

Research Infrastructures – Calls 2016/17 Developing Long-term Sustainability of New Pan-European RI
Integrating and Opening RI of European Interest
e-Infrastructures
Fostering the Innovation Potential of RI
Support to Policy and International cooperation Work programme
70-page document
2016 and 2017 only. (2 year blocks after that)
This webinar provides a brief overview (with some extra supplementary info) 5 Calls - 15 topics in total<br>

Call 1 - Developing new world-class research infrastructures “INFRADEV” INFRADEV-01-2017 (RIA) - Design Studies
Support the conceptual and technical design of new research infrastructures with clear European dimension
Support major upgrades of existing infrastructures also possible
BUDGET: €20M DEADLINE: 29 March 2017 To facilitate and support: Implementation; Long-term sustainability; Efficient operation of research infrastructures
4 Calls INFRADEV-02-2016 (CSA) - Preparatory Phase of ESFRI projects
Support to bring projects identified on the ESFRI roadmap to a sufficiently legal, financial and/or technical level required to implement the project
BUDGET: €40M DEADLINE: 22 June 2016 INFRADEV-03-2016-2017 (CSA) – Individual Support to ESFRI and Other World-class Research Infrastructures
Target long-term sustainability of new RIs, ESFRI and other world-class RIs in Europe
Special attention given to the interaction with industry and SMEs
BUDGET: €30M (+ €40M) DEADLINE: 30 March 2016 INFRADEV-4-2016 (RIA)- European Open Science Cloud for Research
Support for the launch of a pilot action in availability of scientific data and data-analysis via cloud infrastructure
Proposals should address federation, networking, co-ordination of existing research infrastructures
BUDGET: €10 DEADLINE: 22 June 2016 - For details on each: see pages 6 to 13 of the work programme<br>

Design studies (InfraDev-01) – Specific features Technical, legal and financial feasibility of new or upgraded facilities, leading to a conceptual or technical design report

Scientific and technical work
drafting of concepts, architecture and engineering plans for the construction
taking into account resource efficiency and environmental impacts during creation of prototypes
implementation plans to ensure uptake of new facility by science community at a high efficiency

Conceptual work
integration of the new RI into the European RI landscape
identification of the best possible site(s)
design of a workable legal (e.g. an ERIC) and governance structure
planning of research services to be provided at international level
estimation of budget for construction and operation Call 1 - Developing new world-class research infrastructures “INFRADEV”<br>

EU Open Science Cloud for Research (InfraDev-04) – Specific features Pilot action to demonstrate how availability of data & services for EU researchers can be ensured through a cloud infrastructure
Aim is to:
help deal with the significant data being generated by WCRI/ESFRIs
address the federation, networking, and coordination of existing RIs
Build on existing RIs & design a governance framework with appropriate stakeholders to ensure sustainability
Attention to be paid to storage, access, and reuse needs for data accruing from H2020 projects
Establish links with initiatives (national and EU) and with projects selected under EINFRA-12-2017
Likelihood – 1 proposal Call 1 - Developing new world-class research infrastructures “INFRADEV”<br>

INFRAIA-01-2016/2017 (RIA) - Integrating Activities for Advance Communities – Targeted, Themed Call
To support effective and convenient access to research infrastructures/facilities.
To bring together/open up key national and regional research infrastructures to all European researchers, from both academia and industry, ensuring their optimal use and joint development.

BUDGET: €88M (+€72M) DEADLINE: 30 March 2016

INFRAIA-0202017 (RIA)– Integrating Activities for Starting Communities
To support the trans-national and virtual access provided to European researchers
To improve infrastructure services; support co-operation between RI and the scientific community, industries and stakeholders

BUDGET: €40M DEADLINE: 30 March 2016 (First stage)


Note: Advanced Communities = whose RIs currently show an advanced degree of coordination/networking (in particular awarded via a previous Framework programme)

Starting Communities = whose RIs currently show a limited degree of coordination/networking Call 2 - Integrating and opening research infrastructures of European interest “INFRAIA” An integrating activity to bring together several RIs to support: network activities + transnational and virtual access activities + joint research activities.
2 Calls - For details on each: see pages 14 to 28 of the work programme<br>

Call 2 - Integrating and opening research infrastructures of European interest “INFRAIA” Areas addressed for both calls – see work programme for specifics -

Biological & Medical Sciences
Energy
Environmental and Earth Sciences
Mathematics & ICT
Material Sciences and Analytical facilities
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences & Humanities - For details on each: see pages 14 to 28 of the work programme Advanced Community – SFI Research Infrastructures Call, late 2015<br>

Some notes on Starting Communities… Need for a data management plan: integrating activities (IAs) should also organise the efficient curation, preservation and provision of access to the data collected/produced under the project
Opting out of the pilot on open research data is optional but note that it will likely be mandatory in future FPs (FP9)
IAs should contribute to fostering the potential for innovation (including social innovation) of research infrastructures by reinforcing the partnership with industry
IAs are expected to take into account relevant ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures to exploit synergies
2-stage Call
Awards will be up to €5M per successful proposal
With both Adv & Str communities Ireland has a number of examples. So contact me if you want to discuss specifics or get advice regarding either. Call 1 - Developing new world-class research infrastructures “INFRADEV”<br>

Integrating e-infrastructure resources and services across networking, computing, data, software, user interfaces. Call 3 – e-Infrastructures
“EINFRA” E-infrastructure calls will support EU policies on
Open research data; data & computing intensive science; research & education networking; HPC; and big data innovation.

It will be implemented through:
Service orientation – all projects will contribute to a high quality catalogue of services
Maximising impact – proposal to define KPIs against operational, technical & socio-economic impact
Co-design – consortia are balanced/complementary set of partners
Open research data – data producers and users will be able to benefit from access and depositing of data to make data discoverable, accessible, intelligible and useable
H2020 as a catalyst for job growth – e-infra call will promote, where feasible, the combined/cumulative use of other funding sources as a means to support growth (ref. “digital game changer” on European high performance data networks)<br>

Call 3 – e-Infrastructures
“EINFRA” The Call is structured along 2 themes.
Theme 1 – integration and consolidation of e-infra platforms supporting EU policies and research & education communities, and covers:
Coordination of regional, national, and European operations and funding
Synergies between operational e-infrastructures
Continuous upgrades of infrastructure without service disruption
Main focus of support is on servicing activities & networking activities
Theme 2 – prototyping innovative e-infrastructure platforms and services for research and education communities, industry and citizens. 2 types of activities:
Platform-driven e-infrastructure innovation (technology push, driven by the supply-side)
User-driven e-infrastructure innovation (user pull, driven by the demand-side)
Main focus of support is on servicing activities, networking activities & joint research activities<br>

Call 3 – e-Infrastructures
“EINFRA” Integrating e-infrastructure resources and services across networking, computing, data, software, user interfaces.
Theme 1 calls EINFRA-11-2016 (RIA)– Support to the Next Implementation Phase of Pan-European High Performance Computing Infrastructure and Services (PRACE)
To provide specialised computing services to promote research excellence and innovation
To advance national HPC capabilities
To ensure openness to ‘new user’ communities and promote industrial take-up of HPC services
To work in synergy with the European Technology Platform (ETP) for HPC (ETP4HPC) EINFRA-12-2017 (RIA) – Data and Distributed Computing e-Infrastructures for Open Science

Covers two closely related topics within e-Infrastructures: BUDGET: €15M DEADLINE: 30 March 2016<br>

Access and preservation platforms for scientific information.
Aim is to support reliable and permanent open access to digital scientific records from existing “initiatives” across Europe.

Proposals need
to deploy and maintain service driven knowledge e-infrastructure
to support global interoperability of open access data e-infrastructures
to promote a limited set of bibliometric and webometric data that reflect open access policies Secure and agile data and distributed computing e-infrastructures.
Aim is to enable the integration of a secure, permanent, on-demand service-driven, privacy-compliant and sustainable e-infrastructure incorporating distributed databases, computing resources and software.

Proposals need
to address privacy, cybersecurity, and information assurance supporting data protection public, private or industrial entities
to adopt standards-based common interfaces, open source components and processing of underlying data
to support the preservation and curation of data and associated software BUDGET: €10-15M/proposal (1-2 proposals) DEADLINE: 29 March 2017 BUDGET: €8-10M/proposal (1-2 proposals) DEADLINE: 29 March 2017 - For details on each: see pages 29 to 45 of the work programme<br>

Call 3 – e-Infrastructures
“EINFRA” Integrating e-infrastructure resources and services across networking, computing, data, software, user interfaces.
Theme 2 calls 1. EINFRA-21-2017 (PPI) - Platform-driven e-Infrastructure Innovation
To procure innovative HPC solutions and support EU deployment of world-class HPC infrastructure capability
With the aim of reinforcing EU access to EU leading-edge supercomputing Tier-0 infrastructures and services i.e. associated with PRACE

BUDGET: €26M DEADLINE: 20 September 2016 - For details on each: see pages 29 to 45 of the work programme EINFRA-21-2017 is in two parts

To support public procurement of innovative HPC systems
To support RIA for e-infrastructure prototypes<br>

2. EINFRA-21-2017 - Research and Innovation Actions for e-Infrastructures Prototypes

Covers 2 areas (proposals to address one):

“Universal discoverability of data objects and provenance”

Prototyping an e-infrastructure service, based on standards and best-practices, for the uptake of a Digital Identifier e-infrastructure for digital objects (articles, datasets, collections, software, nomenclature, etc.).
Linked with the Research Data Alliance (RDA)

BUDGET: €4-5M, one proposal DEADLINE: 29 March 2017



2) “Computing e-infrastructure with extreme large datasets”

Develop service prototypes to cope with very large data resources. It should include the basis software layers supporting applications such as modelling, simulation, pattern recognition, visualisation, etc.
Prototypes to follow an open source approach

BUDGET: €2.2-3M, 4-5 proposals DEADLINE: 29 March 2017<br>

EINFRA-22-2016 – User-driven e-Infrastructure Innovation

To support user-driven design and prototyping of innovative e-infrastructure services and applications.
Proposals to address one of the following areas:

1) to support, through open e-infrastructure resources, specific requirements of European initiatives addressing societal challenges (e.g. on environment and marine sustainability, agriculture and biodiversity, health and human brain etc.).
BUDGET: €2-3M/proposal DEADLINE: 30 March 2016

2) to stimulate the innovation potential of innovative actors, SMEs in particular, either as suppliers of technologies and services for e-infrastructures or as users of e-infrastructures to improve their own product and service offering
Successful applicants will launch “mini-calls” to provide support to SMEs (for ca. €60,000)
BUDGET: €5-6M. One proposal DEADLINE: 30 March 2016

3) To development a pan-European identity federation of services for researchers, educators and students, in compliance with existing identity inter-federation efforts (including Eduroam and Edugain)
BUDGET: €2.5-3M. One proposal DEADLINE: 30 March 2016

4) Reuse and improve (performance, quality, reputation, etc) the open access repository and publishing platform infrastructure for prototyping new infrastructure services in support of open science (e.g. new forms of publishing, machine-assisted knowledge extraction services from heterogeneous data resources and strengthening of machine readability and other discovery services)
BUDGET: €1-2M/proposal DEADLINE: 30 March 2016<br>

e-Infrastructures – points to remember

Proposals should be structured around Networking Activities, Service Activities and Joint Research Activities
The Software to be developed needs to be open source
A Data Management Plan to be developed enabling data preservation, on-line discoverability, authorisation and re-use of data
Clear Metrics (KPIs) to be proposed and used
Open Access to Publications resulting from the project (where appropriate)
Usefulness of services to the end user community and financial sustainability to be ensured Call 3 – e-Infrastructures
“EINFRA”<br>

Call 4 – Fostering the Innovation Potential of Research Infrastructures. “INFRAINNOV” To develop the innovation potential of research infrastructures. To better exploit component instruments, services and knowledge for the implementation and upgrade of research infrastructures
2 Calls INFRAINNOV-01-2017 (RIA) – Fostering Co-innovation for Future Detection and Imaging Technologies

A pilot initiative: to address the development of future detection and imaging technologies, which have applications in the fields of medicine, manufacturing industry, aerospace, ICT, engineering, environmental sciences
To be a driver enabling the transfer of fundamental research towards industrial application BUDGET: €20M/proposal . One proposal. DEADLINE: 29 March 2017 INFRAINNOV- 02-2016 (CSA) – Support to Technological Infrastructures
T-infrastructures provide RIs with advanced key technologies and integration services.
Proposals need:
to define key techniques and trends which are crucial for the development of RIs, in close partnership with industrial partners
to identify domains of societal applications and potential markets beyond RIs
to facilitate the creation of both large and viable markets
to support the integration of RIs into local, regional and global innovation systems BUDGET: €10M (€2M/proposal) DEADLINE: 30 March 2016 - For details on each: see pages 46 to 51 of the work programme<br>

Call 5 - Support to policy and International Co-operation. “INFRASUPP” To develop the human resources of RIs especially in areas that suffer from shortages in supply or where new skills and professions are required.

3 Calls INFRASUPP-1-2016 (CSA) – Policy and International Co-operation Measures for Research Infrastructures. 4 separate topics:

Support development of RI research policy that facilitates Roadmap drafting and evaluation procedures
Develop the role of the Union in international organisations and multilateral fora
Aid bilateral co-operation on RIs with Africa
Support training needs of the Synchrotron light for Experimental Science and Applications (SESAME) facility located in Jordan BUDGET: €2M/topic DEADLINE: 30 March 2016 INFRASUPP-02-2017 (CSA) – Policy and International Co-operation Measures for Research Infrastructures
Support co-operation between the EU and international strategic partners. 3 separate topics:

Develop a model describing the socio-economic leverage of RIs in terms of impact of the financial investment for the different types of Infrastructures
Support the cooperation between the EU and international strategic partners for the development of global RIs or an enhancement of the current interaction among RIs in the global arena
Aid the Research Data Alliance (RDA) through supporting development of global interoperable research data infrastructures BUDGET: €1.5M/topics 1 & 2; €3.5M/topic 3 DEADLINE: 29 March 2017 - For details on each: see pages 52 to 61 of the work programme<br>

INFRASUPP-03-2016 (RIA) – Support to Policies and International Co-operation Infrastructures

1) To define and test high-speed networking e-infrastructure architecture for the forthcoming SKA RI
BUDGET: €3M DEADLINE: 30 March 2016

2) International Co-operation on e-Infrastructure Supporting Major Societal Challenges
Co-operation with third countries on interoperability of e-infrastructures for networking, computing and data in order to support joint-efforts on one or more major societal challenges (e.g.: health, agriculture, education/skills, etc.)
BUDGET: €1M DEADLINE: 30 March 2016

3) Policy Support to e-Infrastructure Programme
Support of the e-IRG secretariat
BUDGET: €1M DEADLINE: 30 March 2016

4) Support to dissemination for the e-infrastructure programme
BUDGET: €1.5M DEADLINE: 30 March 2016

5) Support to small-size foresight roadmaps for the e-infrastructure programme
to define long-term requirements, community-building and identification of potential collaboration from stakeholders across different geographic areas and scientific domains.
BUDGET: €400.000 DEADLINE: 30 March 2016 Call 5 - Support to policy and International Co-operation. “INFRASUPP” - For details on each: see pages 52 to 61 of the work programme<br>

The work programme, which details all of the Calls including the expected impact from funded projects, can be found here:

http://www.sfi.ie/international/research-infrastructures.html Thank you for your Attention! Contact Details
Michael Ryan
National Delegate & NCP Research Infrastructures
Head of EU Affairs SFI
eu-infrastructures@sfi.ie<br>