EGO Workshop at CERN, Geneva, 31 January 2006

1. EGO Workshop at CERN, Geneva, 31 January 2006 EU e-Infrastructure plans for FP7 - The discussion on evolution of the service provisioning model - Kyriakos Baxevanidis Deputy Head of Unit Research Infrastructures European Commission, DG INFSO kyriakos.baxevanidis@cec.eu.int e-Infrastructure: http://www.cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/rn/

2. Leverage effect on Member States and private investments FP7 approach: Continuity and new Impetus • Continuity • Thematic priorities • Scaling up ERA coordination actions • Scaling up Marie Curie actions • Scaling up SME measures • Seven years duration • New Impetus • Doubling of budget per year • European Research Council • Joint Technology Initiatives • New research infrastructures • Mainstreaming NEST/FET, SSP/Priority8, Int’l Cooperation • New management schemes

3. FP7 overview (Commission proposal) – 2007-2013 Cooperation: 44735 M€ (61%) (ICT: 12670 M€ ) Ideas: 11942 M€ (16%) People: 7178 M€ (10%) Capacities: 7536 M€ (10%) JRC: 1824 M€ (3%) http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/future/documents_en.cfm

4. FP7 - Cooperation: Collaborative research themes Nano, materials, production: 4865 M€ (11%) ICT: 12756 M€ (28.5%) Energy: 2951 M€ (7%) Environment: 2552 M€ (6%) Transport: 5981 M€ (13%) Food, agriculture, biotech: 2472 M€ (6%) Socio-econ research: 798 M€ (2%) Space and security: 3987 M€ (9%) Health: 8373 M€ (18%)

5. ARTEMIS NESSI eMobility NEM ENIAC ... nanotechnologies embedded software & grids communication networks home environment personal environment FP7 - ICT Technology platforms • Collaboration initiatives uniting stakeholders around a common vision & approach for research in their field • They put specific focus on the definition of a strategic research agenda & the mobilisation of the necessary critical mass of research & innovation effort Criteria include • Inability of existing instruments to achieve objectives • Degree and clarity of definition of objectives • Financial and resource commitment from industry • Capacity to attract additional national support • Leveraging of current / future industry funding

6. Mission:Develop a visionary strategy for Software and Services driven by a common European Research Agenda where innovation and business strengths are reinforced Grid Research – Technology Platform for FP7 A European Technology Platform for Software, Grids & e-Services www.nessi-europe.com

7. The Capacities Specific Programme of FP7 Research infrastructures: 3987 M€ (54%) Research for benefit of SMEs: 1914 M€ (25%) International cooperation: 359 M€ (5%) Regions of knowledge: 160 M€ (2%) Science in society: 558 M€ (7%) Research potential: 558 M€ (7%) To enhance research and innovation capacity of EU economy - bottom-up versus top-down approach in Technology Platforms - http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/future/documents_en.cfm

8. Discussions on FP7 financial resources are on-going • Total proposed FP7 financial resources by Commission: ~73 €B • European Council Dec 2005 meeting on EU financial perspectives suggested FP7 financial resources to adjust to ~50 €B

9. EU service scheme, Training 2005 Policies, Trust, Test-beds DL, Data, Content Grids, Highendcomputing Network Infrastructure FP7 FP6 FP5 e-Infrastructure: an evolutionary path Policy - eIRG Testbeds Grid Infrastructures Network Infrastructure Testbeds Network Infrastructure

10. Continuation and further development of current actions “current” instruments (possible changes) New instruments Strategic roadmaps • New Infrastructures ESFRI, e-IRG FP7 proposed mechanisms for Research Infrastructures Reinforce the budget for Research Infrastructures ! Reinforce liaison with Thematic Priorities !

11. Roadmap: identification of scientific needs Criteria: • Scientific: needs of the scientific communities from 2007 up to 2015-20 • Strategic: impacts on the S&T development, new ways of doing science in Europe • Readiness: back-up from several Member states, relevance of stakeholders • Feasibility: technically and financially feasible and mature projects

12. e-IRG roadmap (upgrades & new RI) ESFRI roadmap (new RI only) Collaboration tools & environments Computing & Data EG Expert Group-z Expert Group-x Middleware & Organisation New RI Resources (supercomputers, sensors, data, storage …) … Networking Roadmap for e-Infrastructure: e-IRG & ESFRI e-IRG: www.e-IRG.org ESFRI: www.cordis.lu/esfri

13. National Authorities National strategies Willingness/capacity to fund National funds European Commission Calls for preparatory phase and evaluation of proposals Priority list of selected proposals Consensus between stakeholders Preparatory phase Construction of New RI FP7 funds Structural funds EIB loans (Risk Sharing Finance Facility) Review Board A stage-gate process towards new RI in FP7 Identification of projects Decision making Funding ESFRI, e-IRG Roadmap and potential projects

14. Preparatory phase: criteria for proposal selection • Excellence, capacity to increase performance and attractiveness of the European Research Area; capacity to offer an excellent service to users from the research community and support for innovation at the European level • Impact, real catalyzing effect of the EC action; additionality effect of the EC action; impact of the new RI on a sustainable development of Europe • Implementation, feasibility and adequacy of preparatory phase; due consideration of the RI project life-cycle; commitment of partners and quality of project management

15. e-IRG meeting in Dec 2005 under UK-presidency • Synergy with ESFRI Expert Group on Computing and Data (Supercomputing issues etc) • Task-Force on Integrated Data Management • New Task-Force to address requirements for a more advanced and stable service-provisioning model of grid-based e-Infrastructures

16. Production Grid-RI: current service provisioning model • Based on two core projects (EGEE and DEISA); others enhance, expand or use the basic infrastructure that the above projects provide • Strong role of some user-communities (HEP, biology etc); new user communities can only join within the limited resources, structure, duration and support of above projects • Current EC-funding model/instrument reaching its limits in view of the continuous enlargement of the core projects (geographical expansion, more and more organisations…)

17. Long-term preservation of current service provisioning model poses important challenges as community enlarges • Non-optimal pace of integration of new user-communities, pooling of resources, know-how transfer across scientific disciplines • Non-optimal use of infrastructure across different application fields • High turn-over of key-personnel (in many cases leaving Europe) due to short employment/project cycles

18. A more advanced, stable & pervasive service-provisioning scheme for grid-based e-Infrastructures is proposed • Establish Grid-service centres • On local, regional or other appropriate level – the EGEE federation & local service scheme provides a useful paradigm • To operate production grid e-Infrastructures for a wide range of application communities • To provide, in addition, training and support to users • Implement a more stable funding scheme independent of (short in general) project cycles • To function as one-stop-shop service points in the use of grid-based e-Infrastructure • To promote interoperability among infrastructures and harmonized policies in their use (e.g. AAA, resource-sharing) • To promote collaborations with industry (based on the stable operational environment they support)

19. A more advanced, stable & pervasive service-provisioning scheme for grid-based e-Infrastructures is proposed • Separate infrastructure-operation and infrastructure-policy concerns: • Grid-service centres to focus on operational, administrative and training aspects • A high-level committee of national representatives could steer the process on political level and provide long-term strategy and support – theGÉANT Policy Committee scheme provides a useful paradigm • Effort requires to put emphasis on strong National Grid infrastructures and relevant commitments by Member States and the Commission A broad discussion on the topic is launched through the e-IRG Task Force

20. The EGO proposal • Appears to address core objectives of a new service-provisioning scheme • Its success depends on how well it addresses broad community needs (i.e. the support the broader Grid community in Europe is prepared to give to it) • Support broad range of applications • Easy integration of present and future (National etc) Grids • Interoperability with other international Grids… • Critical is the parallel evolution of National Grid infrastructures and initiatives • Much work is needed on both the technical and the political level

21. Implementing the EGO • The new service-scheme is a high political profile issue and has to be highlighted accordingly on the political level • Of particular importance the works of the e-IRG Task Force on the new service model – the Task Force and the e-IRG need to adopt a clear position on the new service scheme • The financial resources for e-Infrastructures in FP7 will be critical for the EU to support a new service scheme • An EGO proposal will have to pass through a selection process • Options that the “New” and the “Continued” FP7-schemes provide need to be carefully evaluated (as well as the selection criteria in each case)

22. National Authorities National strategies Willingness/capacity to fund National funds European Commission Calls for preparatory phase and evaluation of proposals Priority list of selected proposals Consensus between stakeholders Preparatory phase Construction of New RI FP7 funds Structural funds EIB loans (Risk Sharing Finance Facility) Review Board A possible working scenario… Identification of projects Decision making Funding ESFRI, e-IRG Roadmap and potential projects • Funding scheme for EGO • National Grid Infrastructure centres • Introduction of GÉANT-like funding scheme

23. FP7 implementation: Timetable Call 1 Call 2 Call 3 Call 4 Call 5 Call 6 2003 2004 2005 2006 FP6 FP7 2007 - 2013 Communication on FP7 orientations Adoption FP7, SPs, RfPproposals FP7 Work Programmes + Calls New Financial Perspectives 2007 - 2013 Communication on new financial perspectives Agreement Legislative proposals

24. Still long way to go!! To digitize the information of the human body one would need several trillions of the fastest hard discs that exist today… Thank you!