1. Cyber-Infrastructure in Horizon 2020 EU-Brazil cooperation
Cloudscape Brazil 2014
Rio de Janeiro, 20 June 2014
Augusto de Albuquerque
Minister Counsellor
EU Delegation in Brazil
With
Francisco Medeiros
European Commission, Software and Services, Cloud Computing, DG CNECT.E2
Carlos Morais Pires
European Commission, e-Infrastructures, DG CNECT.C1
Author’s views do not commit the European Commission

2. Cyber-infrastructure
Summary
Cyber-infrastructure
E-Infrastructure
strategic relevance of research infrastructures
e-infrastructures: moving, processing and managing data
coherent strategies and opportunities to implement them
2. Cloud Computing
3. Coordinated Calls

3. Cyber-Infrastructure
The two faces of Cyber-Infrastructure
E-Infrastructure developing the on-line ERA supporting research and innovation across all scientific domains with high speed connectivity, high performance computing and data infrastructure. This is part of the “Excellence in Science” pillar of H2020.
Cloud computing strategy to speed up the adoption and increase of cloud computing across all sectors of the economy

4. Times of change: research logic machines
Research Data collected at observation or experimentation phase were registered in the scientists notebooks, which used to be paper books
Now research data is stored in digital form. Easier to be processed by "logic machines" programmed with complex models able to dig into the data
Logic machines are made of human scientific knowledge and creativity, software and the underlying hardware
Scientist notebooks can now be linked to a huge amount of other data resources (including scientific papers), computers with unprecedented capacity, eventually connected to global networks

5. Europe riding the research data wave
Vision: "data e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use, and trust of data.
In a sense, the physical and technical infrastructure becomes invisible and the data themselves become the infrastructure a valuable asset on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance".
The High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data presented Riding the Wave in October 2010
Russell's quote could be extended:
“without data and computing infrastructures few men can achieve much in 21st century’s science”

6. Who is involved? data generators
research projects, big research infrastructure, installations or medium size laboratories, simulation centres, surveys or individual researchers
discipline-specific data services
providing data and workflows as a service
generic common data services
computing centres, libraries,…
researchers as users
using (and producing) data for science and engineering
community driven data infrastructure, including ESFRI, ESFRI clusters and others

7. Issues to be addressed (policy framework)
Are publically funded research data a public good? How do we ensure preservation and access? How to we make data discoverable and exchangeable? How to ensure integrity and reliability of data? How do we ensure appropriate recognition? How do we manage intellectual property? How do we deal with privacy in the research context? How do work the long term funding and cost/benefit? How to work at European and global levels? How to foster cooperation with developing countries? etc…

8. Issues to be addressed (e-infrastructure)
The EC in coordination with EU Member States is looking after research data as an infrastructure
As a valuable and a strategic resource, research data opens at least three key issues to be addressed(*):
How data can be networked
How to envision and set up data governance on a global scale
How the EU can play a leading role in helping start and steer this global trend
(*) Fred Friend, Jean-Claude Guédon Herbert van Sompel “Beyond Sharing and Re- using: Toward Global Data Networking”

9. Research Horizon 2020 Infrastructures
Developing new world-class RI
Integrating and opening existing national RI of pan-European interest
Development, deployment & operation of
e-Infrastructures
Fostering the innovation potential
of Ris and their human capital
Reinforcing European RI policy and
international cooperation WP
190 million Euro

10. Research Infrastructure (e-Infrastructure highlihgted)
Work Programme
CALL 1
Developing new
world class infrastructures
CALL 2
Integrating and opening
research infrastructures
of pan-European interest
CALL 3
e-Infrastructures
CALL 4
Support to innovation,
human resources,
policy and international cooperation
for research infrastructures
Design Studies
Support to
Preparatory Phase of ESFRI projects
Support to the
individual implementation
and operation
of ESFRI projects
Support to the implementation of cross-cutting Infrastructure services and solutions for cluster of ESFRI and other rilevant ReseaRch Infrastructure initiatives in a given thematic area
Integrating and opening
existing national and regional
research infrastructures of
pan-Eutropean interest
Calls in 2014
Deadlines Sept 2014 and Jan 2015
Initiatives starting in 2015 until 2018
Managing, preserving and computing With big reserach data
e-Infrastructures for Open Access
TOWARDS GLOBAL DATA
E-INFRASTRUCTURES:
RESEARCH DATA ALLIANCE
Pan-European
High Performance Computing infrastructure and services
Centres
of Excellence
for Computing applications
Network of
HPC Competence Centres for SMEs
Provision of
core services across
e-Infrastructures
Research and Education Networking – GEANT
e-Infrastructures for virtual Research environments (VRE)
Innovation
Support measures
Innovative procurement
pilot action in the field of
scientific instrumentation
Strengthening the human capital of research infrastructures
New professions
and skills
for e-InfrAstructures
Policy measures
for research Infrastructures
International cooperation
for research infrastructures
e-Infrastructure
policy development and international cooperation
Network of National Contact Points

11. Research Data Alliance: a funder’ perspective
Societal challenges of our time transcend borders
Data and computing intensive science is made of global collaborations
Research data are global
The European Commission has been supporting the set-up of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) to enable data exchange on a global scale
The initial phase of RDA has been supported by the collaboration between the European Commission, the US National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Australian Ministry of Research

12. Atmosphere/Space Physics
RDA projection wall
Tools for virtual research environments
Generic services:
preservation, curation storage and computation
Open Access:
participatory, distributed infrastructure
Astronomy
Environment …
Biology Medicine
Atmosphere/Space Physics
Social Sciences
Scientific Data (Discipline Specific)
Other Data
Researcher 1
Non Scientific World
Scientific World
Researcher 2
Aggregated Data Sets (Temporary or Permanent)
Workflows
Aggregation Path
VRE

13. Take five
5 principles describing the benefits of a global research data infrastructure (G8+O6) Data is: Discoverable – IDs, Descriptive Metadata, ... Accessible – Acknowledgment, License, Terms of Use, Intellectual Property, Legal ... Understandable – Semantics, Analysis, Quality, Language translation .... Manageable – Responsibility, Costs, Preservation ... People (Usable) - Workforce, Cultural, Training, ...

14. E-Infrastructures, main issues
Data e-Infrastructures increase scope, depth and economies of scale of the scientific enterprise
Horizon 2020 provides tools and opportunities addressing data and computing e-infrastructures
If taken with appropriate resources and critical mass, can project Europe into the new world of data driven science
The objective is to combine the expertise of scientific communities with the expertise of ICT communities capable of exploring the limits of high bandwidth communication, high- performance computing, open scientific software and virtual research environments

15. 2. EU Cloud computing strategy: vision and priorities
Commission Communication of 27 September 2012
Also known as the "European Cloud Strategy"
Strategy designed to speed up the adoption and increase the use of cloud computing across all sectors of the economy

16. Expected benefits Motivation for the fast adoption of cloud computing
Cost savings in the deployment of IT services (infrastructures, installations, human resources)
Forecast of expenditure on 'public cloud' services in the EU until 2020
€35 billion without policy intervention
€78 billion if appropriate policy initiatives are implemented
Impact on all sectors of the economy
Increase of the EU GDP in the year 2020 due to cloud computing
€88 billion without policy intervention
€250 billion if appropriate policy initiatives are implemented

17. European Council Conclusions
EU Heads of State and Government (25 October 2013)
Chapter on "Digital Economy, Innovation and Services"
Several strategic technologies such as Big Data and Cloud Computing are important enablers for productivity and better services. Cloud Computing should improve access to data and simplify their sharing. Big Data aims to process, collect, store and analyse large amounts of data
EU action should provide the right framework conditions for a single market for Big Data and Cloud Computing, in particular by promoting high standards for secure, high-quality and reliable cloud services

18. What about research and innovation?
COM(2012)529 of 27 September 2012:
- Make full use of other instruments, notably through research and development support under Horizon 2020 on long term challenges specific to cloud computing as well as assisting the migration to cloud-based solutions
Current status: significant resources (€100 million) allocated to support advanced cloud computing infrastructures and services
H2020 WP : €95 million
EU-Brazil: €3.5 million
EU-Japan: €1.5 million

19. 3. 3rd EU-Brazil R&D Call: Cooperation in Advanced Cyber Infrastructure
Proposals with balanced participation of EU and Brazilian partners should make a substantial contribution to the identified themes indicating the benefits of a joint effort
EUB1–2015: Cloud Computing, including security aspects [€3.5 million EU contribution]
EUB2–2015: High Performance Computing [€2.0 million EU contribution]
EUB3–2015: Experimental Platforms [€1.5 million EU contribution]

20. Formalities and schedule
H2020-EUB-2015: funding from 2015 budget
Formal adoption by the Commission: 23 July 2014
Opening date: 15 October 2014
Deadline: 21 April (Brussels time)
Result of evaluation: before 21 September 2015
Signature of grant agreements: before 21 December 2015
Additional eligibility criteria:
Proposals submitted to this call, which do not include coordination with a Brazilian proposal will be considered ineligible
The proposed project duration shall not exceed 36 months

21. EUB1–2015: Cloud Computing, including security aspects
Specific Challenge: data are motivating a profound transformation in the culture and conduct of scientific research in every field of science and engineering. Advancements in this area are required in terms of cloud-centric applications for big data, as well as in creating novel cloud technologies that provide effective utilization and optimization of heterogeneous resources (such as storage and communications) in big data scenarios, in particular addressing privacy, security and other Quality-of-Service issues*
* In line with statement of EU Heads of State and Governmnet in October 2013

22. EUB1–2015: scope Research and Innovation Actions (RIA)
The focus of the joint research will be the development of innovative technologies combining advanced Clouds and Big Data approaches to address the challenges stemming from different application domains in business and societal contexts. The technologies developed should take into account interoperability and data portability issues and aim towards future standardization
Coordinated and Support Actions (CSA)
One CSA for the research coordination and policy activities, including research roadmapping and supporting further future common activities, i.e. dissemination, organisation of workshops, preparation of future coordinated call topics, etc.

23. Expected impact
The joint EU-Brazil research will develop innovative technologies in the area of cloud based service provision by integrating approaches and aspects of distributed Clouds and Big Data
This collaboration will facilitate policy coordination in the relevant areas between the EU and Brazil, subsequently to be expanded to other LAC partners. In particular:
Facilitate the development of cloud-enabled applications through robust standardized global technologies
Development of technologies integrating cloud and big data in terms of architecture, middleware and services
Joint contributions to International Standardization and/or Forum activities

24. Further information Horizon 2020 Participants Portal
Participants Portal
EU-Brazil R&D Cooperation in Advanced Cyber Infrastructure
alls/h2020-eub-2015.html#tab2
Digital Agenda – Cloud Computing
Open web consultation on Future Topics of common interest
EU-BR Consultation Workshop
Contact:

25. Augusto de Albuquerque
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