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European policies for e-

Infrastructures

Belarus-Poland NREN cross-border link inauguration event Minsk, 9 November 2010

Jean-Luc DorelEuropean Commission - DG INFSOGéant and e-Infrastructures unit

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Adoption of ICT changes the scientific discovery process

Tools: computing and simulation‐ The very small, the very big and the very complex

Process: automation; remote collaboration‐ Cost and time efficiency; cross-discipline collaboration;

virtual research communities

Dissemination: of information and results‐ Open Science

ICT for Science

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The ‘map of science’Journal Nature (Dec 2006): 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. […]

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Scientific resources

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Linking at the speed of the lightLinking at the speed of the light

Sharing computers, software and instrumentsSharing computers, software and instruments

Sharing and federating scientific dataSharing and federating scientific data

e-Infrastructures Visionempower research communities through ubiquitous, trusted

and easy access to services for data, computation, communication and collaborative work

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Linking at the speed of the light: GÉANT

Accessing knowledge: scientific data

Innovating the scientific process: global virtual research communities

Experimenting in silico: simulation and visualisation

Sharing the best computational resources: e-Science clouds, grids, supercomputing

e-Infrastructures: areas of action

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Three vectors of a renewed European strategy:

ICT infrastructures for e-ScienceCOM(2009) 108

e-Infrastructure

Europe as hub of

excellence ine-Science

Sustainable and continuous services of

production quality 24/7

Innovation by exploiting know-

how beyond science (public services, large

scale experimentation,

…)

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Member States should (art. 15): Coordinate investments in research

infrastructures in order to develop research and innovation clusters

• FI, HPC, green ICT, nano, cognitive, photonics, embedded,…

Foster trans-national coordination of e-Infrastructures

• Optimise resources• Seamless and safe access for end users

The Commission should (art. 16):

Propose financial incentives for jointly developing and sharing research infrastructures in ICT

• E.g. in exa-scale computing

Competitiveness Council Conclusions of 3 December 2009 (1/2)

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Member States and the Commission should (art. 17):

Extend e-Infrastructures to industrial research and innovation, to public services and SMEs

Explore governance models for efficient, seamless and technologically leading public services

Examine incentives for pre-commercial procurement, including for the deployment of e-Infrastructures

Better coordinate efforts and develop/share strategies in key areas such as […] the GEANT network; avoid fragmentation

Pool investments in HPC under PRACE• …use, development and manufacturing

Major research infrastructures to enjoy e-I support Broaden access to scientific data and open

repositories and ensure coherent approach to data access and curation

Competitiveness Council Conclusions of 3 December 2009 (2/2)

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Digital Agenda for Europethe policy context

DAE is one of the flagships of "Europe 2020: a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth"

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GÉANT infrastructure- supporting Research and Education ++- self-organised & self-governed community- support and reliability- FP7 funding & cost model- impact of cross-border- security- value is not reduce to cost- networking activities- joint research activities

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vision 2030high-level experts group on Scientific Data

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• e-Infrastructures home page:http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/home_en.html