Odile Hologne presentation during the Big Data Europe SC2 Policy Advisory Workshop, Brussels, 30/09/2016

1. O. Hologne/ eROSA
“Towards an e-infrastructure Roadmap for Open
Science in Agriculture”
e-ROSA
Odile Hologne, INRA, head of the department of scientific information

2. O. Hologne/ eROSA
eROSA in brief
 Coordination and support action (infrasupp 3
2016)
 18 months
 starts january 2017
 Consortium : INRA (FR), WUR Alterra (NL),
Agroknow (GR)
 Main ideas : build a roadmap, openly,
bottom up, make the link
 Support small-size foresight roadmaps for research and education communities and
operators of e-infrastructure services.
 Identification of potential collaboration from stakeholders across different geographic
areas and scientific domains.

3. O. Hologne/ eROSA
Framework
E-infrastructure
Open science, EOSC and Agriculture

4. O. Hologne/ eROSA
E-infrastructure definition
 e-Infrastructure refers to a combination of digital
technologies (hardware and software), resources (data,
services, digital libraries), communications (protocols,
access rights and networks), and the people and
organisational structures needed to manage them.
 They are keys in future development of research
infrastructures, as activities go increasingly "online" and
produce vast amounts of data and are at the heart of the
Digital Agenda of the European Commission to support
Open Science and the link between researchers, citizens or
private companies.

5. O. Hologne/ eROSA
Open Science
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/open-science

6. O. Hologne/ eROSA
Open Science and Agriculture
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/open-science
- From small data to big and smart data
- Open research data
- Data sharing for scientific purpose
- Research transparency (hot topics)
- Knowledge access for the
developping countries
- Involve farmers, students or teachers in
scientific processes : citizen science for
agriculture
- Strong link with the societal challenges
- Data driven agricultural sciences
- Multidisciplinary and multiscale approaches
- Predictive biology

7. Static View on Year 2020
(over-simplification)
European Data Infrastructure
European Open
Science Cloud
Scientific Users Industry Public
Sector
• Augusto BURGUEÑO ARJONA
• Head of Unit e-Infrastructure – DG CNECT - European Commission

8. O. Hologne/ eROSA
European open science cloud (EOSC)
From Jean Claude Burgelman – DG RTD

9. O. Hologne/ eROSA
EOSC : a model inspired by NIH ?

10. O. Hologne/ eROSA
E-ROSA
The project

11. O. Hologne/ eROSA
The need for a roadmap
A puzzle of different component
Need to build a share vision
No real research infrastructure in agri-food
(ESFRI in environment, genomics, earth
observation …)

12. O. Hologne/ eROSA
Objectives
Community building : researchers, education
and practitioners ; international ; agricultural
sciences
Improve the knowledge of the landscape :
infra/e-infra, projects, policies … relevant for
an « e-infra for open science in agriculture »
Roadmap : conception, advocacy

13. O. Hologne/ eROSA
Methodology, Work packages

14. O. Hologne/ eROSA
Committees
 Policy committee
 Need of cross approaches :
• #DG : Agri, RTD, CNCT, ….
• others funders
 International advisory board

15. O. Hologne/ eROSA
Discussion
 SWOT analysis
 Next Steps ?

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e-Infrastructure services
enabling the open science vision
Open research
data
Data and
computing
intensive
science
Research and
education
networking
High
performance
computing
Big data
innovation

17. 1717
e-Infra WP2016-17 consists of 3 themes
Integration and
consolidation of
e-infrastructure
platforms
Prototyping
innovative
e-infrastructure
platforms and
services
Support to policies
and international
cooperation

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Theme 3 – Policies and international cooperation
Covers
- European support to the Research Data Alliance, RDA
- Support to data dissemination and international cooperation in the
context of the Square Kilometre Array project
- International Co-operation on e-infrastructure supporting major
societal challenges
- Support to the e-IRG secretariat
- Support to dissemination for the e-infrastructure programme
- Support to small-size foresight roadmaps for the e-infrastructure
programme
Topics
- INFRASUPP-03-2016, INFRASUPP-02-2017 (3), INFRASUPP-03-2017

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Title:
Challenge:
(common
a,b1,b2,b3&b4)
Scope:
Topic: INFRASUPP-03-2016 (a, b1, b2, b3 & b4)
Support to policies and international cooperation for e-infrastructures
(b.4) Coordination and Support actions for international co-operation and policy
development
Support to small-size foresight roadmaps for the e-infrastructure programme
Submission opening:
Submission deadline:
Budget:
Suggested contribution
requested per proposal :
Type of Action: CSA €4.5M
b.1) b.2) b.3) & b.4)
combined08/12/2015
30/03/2016 €300K – €400K
 Fostering targeted international co-operation with third countries in order to reach e-
infrastructure interoperation at global level.
 Contribute to standardisation activities and share best practices.
 Coordination of investments at European, national and regional level is essential to
optimise the impact of the different policies
 Support small-size foresight roadmaps for research and education communities and
operators of e-infrastructure services.
 Identification of potential collaboration from stakeholders across different geographic
areas and scientific domains.

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Impact:  Improve the knowledge base for setting long-term e-infrastructure strategies and
objectives.
Applicable
conditions:
 Evaluation criterion: Standard sub-criteria apply
Submission opening:
Submission deadline:
Budget:
Suggested contribution
requested per proposal :
Type of Action: CSA €4.5M
b.1) b.2) b.3) & b.4)
combined08/12/2015
30/03/2016
Title:
Topic: INFRASUPP-03-2016 (a, b1, b2, b3 & b4)
Support to policies and international cooperation for e-infrastructures
(b.4) Coordination and Support actions for international co-operation and policy
development
Support to small-size foresight roadmaps for the e-infrastructure programme
€300K – €400K