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II Workshop IFAECI CONICET – CNRS - UBA Museo de Ciencias Naturales B.Rivadavia

II Workshop IFAECI CONICET – CNRS - UBA Museo de Ciencias Naturales B.Rivadavia April 25-27 2011 Jorge G. TEZON CONICET. Universities CONICET research centers Agriculture technology INTA Natl Atomic Energy Comission CNEA. 2. 4. 3. 2. 6. 7. 7. 38. 6. 2. 19. 3. 2. 6.

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II Workshop IFAECI CONICET – CNRS - UBA Museo de Ciencias Naturales B.Rivadavia

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  1. II Workshop IFAECI CONICET – CNRS - UBA Museo de Ciencias Naturales B.Rivadavia April 25-27 2011 Jorge G. TEZON CONICET

  2. Universities CONICET research centers Agriculture technology INTA Natl Atomic Energy Comission CNEA 2 4 3 2 6 7 7 38 6 2 19 3 2 6 2

  3. 7000 Full time researchers - 42% in • public universities • 2299 Professional technicians • 8700 Doctoral and postdoc fellows • 1900Research projects • 150 Research Units 90 % under co-administration with Universities • Administration • Research Units • Agriculture & Veterinary Sciences • Biotechnology & Food Sciences • Biological Sciences • Health Sciences • Earth, Astronomy, • Social & Humanities Sciences • Physics, Chemistry & Materials Sciences • Engineering & Architecture , Habitat • Mathematics & Computer Sciences • Multidisciplinary centers • Observatories • INSTITUTIONAL NETWORK of CONICET

  4. Some limitations of “local & individual science” • single disciplines, institutions and jurisdictions • Poor organization : “lack of project management” • High quality standards but poor quality assurance. • ORIGINALITY over INTEGRATION of knowledge. • Individual appropriation of primary data. • Evaluation of projects and its products follows the trend. • Big science problems are multidisciplinary , multinstitutional and interjurisdictional, conducted and managed. Subjected to rules and contracts and evaluated on a long term.

  5. S&T Institutions President Energy Infrastructure & Industry S&T Defense Health State Dept Education Agriculture ANPCYT CONAE CONICET Antartic.Inst INIDEP I. Geograf. INTA INA CITEFA CNEA SEGEMAR Universities S.Hidrogr. ANLIS INTI S.Meteor.

  6. Challenges in the process to “big science” • Evaluation and funding of proposals from the interdiscipline and problem perpective. • Leadership “external to discipline” and management by non scientist experts (?) • Organizational complexity : complex problems need diversified groups and lifespan limited to project stages (cooperation-subletting) • Quality control (include “non pier” validation ?) • Objective-oriented results over originality • Contribution to problem solving (data and instruments for problem comprehension : databases, modelization, prognosis, diagnosis of environment or social behavior etc)

  7. Some systemic actions on information • Information preservation and access: A) rules, agreements, commitments. B) building Information archives and collections, databases • Central facilites ; Testing platforms, computing networks (GRID) or supercomputing for simulation and modeling. • Remote use of facilities in other countries. • Networking

  8. Towards a better diagnosis for international cooperation ……..who sets up the tendencies? The funded projects are “the tip of the iceberg” of real cooperation : 90 projects per year. ….but 2000 joint publications in ISI journals between CONICET researchers and partners abroad, ………….most without specific funding.

  9. Establishing agendas and priorities for : • Joint development of scientific field. • Address shared or global problems. • Development of local vacancies or taking advantage of local opportunities. Institutions must involve to find the best partners and or convince them to cooperate. Only reliable partners count.

  10. Establishing agendas and priorities National Joint Agendas ? International cooperation pulls integration of local groups and institutions but …… ……………also competition between them

  11. Which partners? Where to focuse the efforts?

  12. New strategy for intl. cooperation at CONICET Situation : • Local funding for research (Agencia, CONICET, Universities, Provinces, Natl Programs ) • Many groups internationally competitive. • Need to skip “endogenous growth”. • Opportunities for contribution to big science. • Need to be present in big science projects. • International Cooperation sets higher standards • International cooperation helps to gather local efforts and resources.

  13. Some examples : International Units CONICET CNRS UBA : IFAECI Climate CONICET CNRS : Computing modeling and simulation. CONICET Soc Max Planck : Biomedicine CONICET Univ de Marseille, UNR : Informatics CONICET-CSIC-Min INNov e INV , MINCyT, UNR : Plant Genomics

  14. Some examples International Associated laboratories : LIAs • CONICET CNRS UBA : fluid mechanics • CONICET CNRS UBA Molecular vectors • CONICET INSERM UCC : Molecular immunology • CNEA CNRS nanosciences and nanotechnology (UM CONICET CNEA)

  15. Networks or consortia • CONICET NSF several Universities : high atmosphere • CONICET iBOL Bar Code of Life : molecular taxonomy • CNEA USA EU Pierre Auger Observatory (UM CNEA CONICET) In preparation • CONICET DFG physical chemistry. • CONICET , CNRS ,Sorbonne Nouvelle -Paris 3 , Paris Ouest - Nanterre - La Defense UNQ UNGS UNSAM : Constitutional studies • CONICET, UBA, UNC, SAYDS , China, Brazil, France (IRD ?): Desertification monitoring. • CONICET . INTA Consortium of 24 countries : wheat genetic code • CONICET several Universities : Virtual Astronomy Observatory • CONICET – CNRS- UBA (others?) IFAECI climate and global change

  16. Proyecto AIRES NSF CONICET Argentina Ionospheric Radar Experimental Station

  17. LADA Argentina: desertification assessment Puna Region FAUBA Arid Valleys Region Central Region (Cuyo) Monitoring Group (Córdoba) Patagonia Region (2 GAAs) National Coordination (Buenos Aires) Surface 2.791.810 km2

  18. The UMI is a challenge to integrate not only knowledge and scientists but institutions and countries

  19. LOCAL NETWORKING INTA UBA SMN SMN CEILAP-CITEDEF UNNE UMI CENPAT IANIGLA INA INIDEP SHN

  20. Modelization in climate research • Climate scenarios at UMI on High Computing Modelization and Simulation • Fluid mechanics at LIA • Very complex models at EU large computing facilities.

  21. Opportunities for Regional networking and new partners • Uruguay : extension of FREPLATA project • Chile : • Collaboration with UMI on modellization • Joint projects on high atmosphere chemistry • Joint projects South Atlantic oceanography • Collaboration in glaciers monitoring • Brazil: • Cooperation on desertification assessment • Joint research in Oceanography

  22. “La ciencia no tiene patria , el científico sí” Bernardo Houssay fundador del CONICET II Workshop IFAECI CONICET – CNRS - UBA Museo de Ciencias Naturales B.Rivadavia April 25-27 2011 Jorge G. TEZON CONICET

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