Presentations from Horizon 2020 Information Seminar held at Hilton Hotel 28th November 2013

1. HORIZON 2020 e-infrastructures
DRAFT HORIZON 2020 WORKPROGRAMME 2014-2015
http://whttp://www.kowi.de/Portaldata/2/Resources/horizon2020/H2020-Draft-WPRI.pdf
http://www.kowi.de/Portaldata/2/Resources/horizon2020/H2020-Draft-WP-RI.pdf
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2. Research Infrastructures – Calls
4 Calls - 22 topics in total
1. Developing new world-class Research Infrastructures
2. Integrating and Opening RI of pan-European Interest
3. e-Infrastructures
4. Innovation, Human resources, Policy and International
cooperation for research infrastructures
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MORE COMPUTING POWER
BIG DATA
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
GLOBAL PARTICIPATION
OPEN IS BETTER
• WITHIN AND BETWEEN
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES
• BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
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4. • Need for long term perspective
− Operational continuity
− Sustainability
• Efficient and effective use of national and EU
funding
• Resolving strategic, policy, legal, technical,
financial and governance issues
• Innovation as a priority
− Support SMEs
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5. CALL 3
MANAGING, PRESERVING
AND COMPUTING WITH
BIG RESERACH DATA
1. Managing, preserving and computing with big
research data
Development and deployment of integrated, secure, permanent, ondemand service-driven and sustainable e-infrastructures for scientific
computing and data
2. e-Infrastructure for Open Access
Robust e-infrastructure supporting Open Access policies in Europe,
providing reliable and permanent access to digital scientific records
3. Towards global data e-infrastructures
Consolidating Europe's contribution to the Research Data Alliance
(RDA) and ensuring that RDA serves to foster research data
interoperability at global level
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6. CALL 3 (cont)
4. Pan-European High Performance Computing (HPC)
infrastructure and services
Pool and rationalise Tier-0 resources to offer state-of-the-art
services to both industry and academia
5. Centres of Excellence for computing applications
Computational science enabling discovery and innovation
Focus on scientific, industrial or societal challenges; new or
emerging applications
Integrated, multidisciplinary, user-driven and distributed
6. Network of HPC Competence Centres for SMEs
Exchange best practice and promote services for SMEs
HPC for SMEs also addressed in LEIT
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7. CALL 3 (cont)
7. Provision of core services across
e-Infrastructures
Harmonise and/or deploy core infrastructure services:
Development and promotion of the uptake of a Digital Identifier einfrastructure for digital objects (articles, datasets, collections,
software, nomenclature, etc) and authors;
Deployment and promotion of a pan-European identity federation for
researchers, educators and students
Implementing an ERA Communication action
NB! Core services: those needed across a broad range of
communities and e-infrastructures and ensure their interoperation
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8. CALL 3 (cont)
8. Research and Education Networking – GÉANT
Towards realising the 2020 vision of GÉANT as the European
« communication commons »
from connectivity to advanced services e.g. in mobility and
content access for users anywhere in the EU
intercontinental connectivity making Europe a global hub
innovate in technologies and services; e.g. testing innovative
solutions with industry
adapting governance, aligning policy and ensuring availability of
skills
Longer term committment through a Framework Partnership
Agreement
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9. CALL 3 (cont)
9. Virtual Research Environments (VREs)
Capacity building in interdisciplinary communities to
empower researchers through
• service-driven digital research environments
tailored to specific needs
• integration of resources
• standardised/re-used building blocks, workflows,
interfaces
• data interoperability, discovery, sharing and trust
Any interdisciplinary domain of science and technology
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10. e_Infrastructures Call
Call budget 2014/2-15: 177 M Euros
Draft Research Infrastructures Work Programme
- see the e-Infrastructures Call (EINFRA) pp.24-39
9 topics
e-infrastructure for open access - early closing date (15/04/2014)
Other closing dates: 02/09/2014, 14/01/2015
Katie Lambert, National Contact Point for more information
RINCPUK@stfc.ac.uk;
+44 (0)1235 44 5622
UK National Contact Point website will launch 11 December
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