Scientific Data Infrastructure: activities in the Capacities Programme of FP7

1. Scientific Data Infrastructure: activities in the Capacities Programme of FP7 Presentation at euroCRIS Workshop, Brussels 15 September 2009 Carlos Morais Pires European Commission - DG INFSO F3 Brussels, 15 September 2009 "The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

2. Outline • Communication to the Council and European Parliament • e-Science and e-Infrastructures to be priorities in Europe • Actively participating and influencing global partnerships in science • e-Science: what can Science do for us? • e-Infrastructures: what can we do for Science? • Coordination with EU Member States do put the strategy in practice • the part on scientific information/Data • Mobilization of the research communities • Next Call for Proposals (e-Infrastructures)

3. ICT infrastructures for e-Science: a recent Communication to European Institutions • Highlighting the importance to embrace the e-Science paradigm shift • Highlighting the strategic role of e-Infrastructures as a crucial asset underpinning European research and innovation policies • Calling on Member States and the scientific communities, in cooperation with the European Commission for a reinforced and coordinated effort to further develop world class e-Infrastructures, which will enable the 21st century scientific discoveries

4. Science and IC Technologies • Global scientific challenges with high societal impact • Big distances, big files, big processing • Spread of skills and competences across disciplines e-Infrastructures changing Science, Scientists changing e-infrastructures

5. The ‘map of science’ Journal Nature: This map was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 published papers into 776 different scientific paradigms (shown as pale circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. […]

6. Data/Visualisation e-Science Workspace e-Science Workspace e-Science Workspace Database Database Computer/Simulation Laboratory Laboratory Library Library Computer Computer Networking Networking Networking/Connectivity Why e-Infrastructures? EfficiencyGains Economies of Scale

7. Fostering Global Research Communities Scientific Communities • Geographically spread • Culture heterogeneity • Problem Complexity • Volumes of information • Quality of information • Incentives to share • Organisational barriers e-Infrastructures • Connectivity • Collaboration • Processing, Simulation • Repositories of data • Curation/Review • Trust • Knowledge advantage

8. What can we do for Science… To facilitate a rapid transition to e-Science, the European Commission and Member States have made significant investments in e-Infrastructures… Innovating the scientific process: global virtual research communities Accessing knowledge: scientific data Sharing the best resources: e-Science grid High Performance Computing: PRACE Linking the ideas at the speed of the light: GÉANT

9. Data policy aspects: • Accessibility to research data is important for the: • good management of the public investment • creation of strong value chains of innovation • enhancement of value from international co-operation

10. Orchestration within the European e-Science e-Infrastructure: need for coordination all the elements and layers Information • In the Communication to the Council and EP, the Commission asks the involvement of EU Member States and key stakeholders to build robust, dynamic and innovative e-Infrastructures for scientific data • This cooperation started already by launching 15 projects (40 Mio Euro) and the FP7 Open Access Pilot • There is still a long way to go... Repository services Management of Repositories Management of Access Processing, Computation Physicalinfrastructure Adapted from e-SciDR study

11. Euratom Cooperation JRC 4062 M€ 32413 M€ 1751 M€ Capacities 4097 M€ People 4750 M€ Ideas 7510 M€ Research Infrastructures 42% - 1715 M€ Dev. of policies INCO Science in Society Regions of Knowledge SMEs Research Potential EU R&D programme: budget split (FP7: 2007 - 2013) e-Infrastructures (ICT for Science) 572 M€

12. Support to existing research infrastructures INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1.2.1 Distributed Computing Infrastructure 50 M€ INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1.2.2 Simulation softwares & services 12 M€ INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1.2.3 Virtual Research Communities 23 M€ Support to new research infrastructures INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2.3.1 Construction of new infrastructures (PRACE first phase) 20 M€ INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-3.3 Support to policy development and programme implementation 10 M€ WP2010 (e-Infastructures) Publication: 30/07/2009 / Deadline: 24/11/2009 Call for proposals: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2

13. biology Social Sciences climatology astronomy geosciences physics fusion environment spectroscopy medical ICT … €10M €23M Virtual Research Communities Support actions €12M User Communities Data layer DCI €50MPRACE €20M Simulation software & services layer Computing layer: Distributed Computing & PRACE Network layer Planned Call Publication: 30/07/2009 / Deadline: 24/11/2009 DRAFT

14. Looking ahead • The emergence of "big data science" is there to stay and has a global dimension; It reflects the increasing value of observational and experimental data in virtually all fields of science • Europe is paying particular attention to the aspects of accessibility to scientific information, its quality assurance and preservation; It means developing an ecosystem of European Digital Repositories, federating and adding value to national and discipline-based repositories • Multi-disciplinary approaches, new participative paradigms and global research communities are an essential part of the strategy… but organisational, governance and financing models need reconsideration, informed by sociological and cultural considerations • Upcoming 7th Call of Research Infrastructures programme to provide support to the e-Science transition We need to exploit the growing sensor/effector layer to make the world itself a real-time database. (from the creativity machine, V. Vinge)

15. For further information www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/