FP7 and ILIAS-NEXT
Geppo Cagnoli
INFN Sez. Firenze
University of Glasgow
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The FP7 schemes
• Aim
– creation of the European Research Area, and carry
it further towards the development of the knowledge
economy and society in Europe
• The schemes
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Cooperation: industry driven
Capacities: research infrastructures are in this
People: Marie Curie Fellowships
1. Res. Infrastructures
Ideas: single investigator driven
2. Small & Med. Enterpr.
Joint Research Centres
3. Regional development
4. New EU countries
5. Science in Society
6. International coop.
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FP7 Budget
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Support to Research
Infrastructures
Existing
• Activities (present in FP6 as well):
– transnational access
– integrating activities
– research e-infrastructures
STREGA (R&D)
GWA (Networking)
• Implementation:
– bottom-up calls for proposals open to all fields of
science
– in close cooperation with the thematic areas
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Support to Research
Infrastructures
New
• Activities and implementation:
– support to construction of new infrastructures and major
updates of existing ones
• based on the work conducted by the European Strategy Forum
on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) on the development of a
European roadmap for new research infrastructures
– stage 1: Supporting the preparatory phase
– stage 2: Supporting the construction phase
– design studies
• through bottom-up approach (calls for proposals) to promote
the creation of new research infrastructures by funding
exploratory awards and feasibility studies
ESFRI may also recommend Design Studies
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The path so far
• 6 April 2005
EC FP7 proposal
• 21 Sept. 2005
Specific Programme proposal
approved
• December 2005
Rules of participation
approved by EC
• June 2006
1st EP reading
• 25 Sept. 2006
1st EC reading, amendments
sent to EP
• 2nd Nov. 2006
2nd EP reading ending
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2nd reading by the Council
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Approved
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Conciliation Committee
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Work Programme under
discussion at the EP
Sub-part
1. Support to existing
research
infrastructures
2. Support to new
research
infrastructures
Activity
1.1.1 Integrating Activities (bottom-up)
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1.1.1 Integrating Activities (targeted)
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1.2 ICT based
e-Infrastructures
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2.1 Design studies
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2.2 Construction: support to the
preparatory phase
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2.3 Construction : support to the
implementation phase
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Risk Sharing Finance Facility
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3. Support measures
Total
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Total
Total
About 1780
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%
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More than
60%
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About 1/3
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About 3%
100%
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Calls timing (TBA)
Call N°
Call 1
(early 2007)
Activity
Indicative budget
(M€)
ICT based e-Infrastructures
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Design studies
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Design studies
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Construction – preparatory phase
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Construction – preparatory phase
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Support Measures
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Support Measures
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40
Integrating Activities
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ICT based e-Infrastructures
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Support Measures
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Integrating Activities
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Call 3
(late 2009)
Call 4
(late 2011)
(later in 2007)
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ICT based e-infrastructures
Contribution in 2007 to the Risk Sharing Facility
Call 2
Integrating Activities
ICT based e-Infrastructures
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Support Measures
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Direct grants for the construction phase
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Contribution between 2009 and 2013 to the
Risk Sharing Finance Facility
160
Total
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Support to new Research
Infrastructures (TBA)
• Design studies
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“The aim is to support conceptual design studies for new research infrastructures, which are of a
clear European dimension and interest. Such studies should address all key questions which will
help to assess the technical and financial feasibility of the proposed new facility. The outcome of
the work should be a conceptual design report. Major upgrades of existing infrastructures may also
be considered, when the end result is intended to be equivalent to, or be capable of replacing, a
new infrastructure.”
“All fields of science and technologies could be considered.
Projects identified as “emerging” by ESFRI are also welcome. This action would also foster the
emergence of new organisational models designed to consolidate a sustainable approach to eInfrastructures, in particular in the domain of grids and data repositories.”
• Construction of new infrastructure
– to provide a catalytic and leveraging support for the construction of
critical new facilities based on the ESFRI roadmap for new research
infrastructures of pan-European interest. This activity will follow a two
stage-approach:
• Stage 1 - support to the preparatory phase: This first phase will involve, in
particular, the finalisation of the detailed construction plans, of the legal
organisation, of the management and multi-annual financial planning
• Stage 2 - support to the implementation phase: this phase involves the
actual construction, building on the technical, legal, administrative and financial
agreement achieved during the preparatory phase between all stakeholders.
Community financial support for the implementation phase will be very limited
and may be indirect, e.g. through the Risk Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF), or
direct, but only in few cases, where there is a critical need for such a support
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Meanwhile the ESFRI
roadmap is out
• Gravitational Waves
are not in
– Expected, but…
– The document is
confusing about near
and far future projects
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Astroparticle physics in FP6
• Projects approved, in chronological order:
– ILIAS (Integrated activities on GW , DM and DbD)
– KM3-Net (Design Study on neutrinos detector)
– ASPERA (ERA-NET: roadmap maker)
• Project rejected:
– HEAP-Net (Integrated activities on HEn, g-rays,
cosmic rays)
• ApPEC
– ApPEC promoted all the projects above
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The future
• The FP7 will take action next year
• Continuing the positive experience of ILIAS 
ILIAS-NEXT
• The GW community has submitted 4 LoIs
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DS for 3rd Generation Interferometer
Network
Construction DUAL
RTN for LISA
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ILIAS-NEXT
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ILIAS-NEXT schematic
N4
GW net
N5
DM net
N6
nM net
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GW net
• Contact person
– Raffaele Flaminio
• Objectives
– To exchange of information:
• Commissioning of existing detectors
• Network data analysis
• With other fields of Astronomy
(g-rays, HE cosmic rays and n)
– Development of the science case for future detectors
– Investigation on the properties of gravitational wave
sources
– To support the access of more people from more
countries to the existing infrastructures by means of
a visitor program
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MM Net
• Contact person
– Geppo Cagnoli
• Some considerations
– The most interesting fields related to GW
are outside ILIAS (HEAP-Net)
– The extend of the objectives depends on how much
the Astroparticle community is excited by this project
– Minimal goal: held meetings on astronomical sources
of interest for several research fields
• Managing
– One representative for each field
– MMNet: a THNet working package?
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Next meeting of ASPERA
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Final comments
• Representatives of our field should attend the
Astroparticle physics meetings
– To tackle the possible misunderstanding coming up
from the ESFRI roadmap
• What role in ILIAS-NEXT?
– HEAP Net ?
• Next to come
– The Valencia Meeting is very important for the
future of MM Net
– 1st draft of the MM Net proposal has to be
ready by 15th Dec.
– Integration of ILIAS-NEX proposal by 15th Jan.
– Presentation of ILIAS-NEXT on 1st March 2007
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