1. EARNEST Workshop Research Networking The Next Challenge Berlin, 23 May 2006 Wim Jansen

2. The next Challenge Technical Organisational Co-operation FP7

3. Workshop Research Networking May 2005 Objective: Capitalise on achievements and impact of eInfrastructure for the research communities in Europe Identify new challenges and provide a roadmap on how these challenges should be met in the coming 5 to 10 years Participants: - NREN directors - President and Secretary General of TERENA - Chairman of eIRG - Chairman of Board and Director DANTE - Chairman of NREN Policy Committee

4. “Research and Technology Development in IST” GÉANT is acknowledged as leading the world. Europe is a pioneer in Grid empowered infrastructures. (eInfrastructure) ICT based infrastructure, namely GÉANT and GRID need reinforcement and expansion in FP7. To enable Europe to continue to play a leading role.

5. Expected Technological evolution Increasing networking traffic  Optical fibres: from renting to buying; distributed light path –Hybrid networking and dynamic allocation; end2end across Europe, Optical Private Networks –Ultimately all users will have the bandwidth they want –Large (future) Infrastructure Facilities need to be connected –Campus Networking is new challenge (1:10:100) –from connectivity to service provision: streaming services (access grids, VoD), storage resources (archives, repositories), virtual labs, virtual organizations, digital libraries, VoIP, trust and security services (AAA), roaming.

6. -Extra- Organisational Challenges How will NRENs involve and serve the academic communities in the future? –Intelligence in Networks will be moving from the organisation to the institutions and to the users. High learning curve requires transformation of NRENs from service providers to service enablers or service integrators. –Advanced services everywhere for everyone (grid, dynamic configuration and allocation etc..) –More services require new business models for NRENs –Provide tailor made solutions for large infrastructures, and involve those users actively. –Avoid concurrent research networks for different academic disciplines.

7. -intra- Organisational Challenges Future collaboration between NRENs, with the goal to provide services of common interest (e.g. by leveraging Structural Funds) –Reducing digital divide is crucial, but difficult. MS are in different stages of economic development, and needs. Hence political support differs as other infrastructures are competing (and also very much needed) Structural Funds used only for long term capital investments. –Consider EU funding for supporting local network infrastructure. The infrastructure is as powerful as its weakest element.

8. Questions to address “Expectations from the Commission”: - Which of the SERENATE recommendations had the biggest impact on the Networking community and why? -Can we extrapolate these Results to EARNEST? Why not? -What will cross-border fiber bring? -Are the NRENs that can use the Structural Funds to bridge the digital divide also taking the necessary action to tender? -Increasing mobility of researchers and /students: -Security and Trust, AA infrastructure become a major challence -Campus Networks Should EARNEST tackle the global dimensions of networking? Identify and map the 50 largest crucual scientific infrastructures How will NRENs involve and serve the academic communities in the future?

9. Virtual Research Communities A VRC is a group of researchers, working together effectively through the use of information and communications technology. Within the community, researchers can collaborate, communicate, share resources, access remote equipment or computers and produce results as effectively as if they, and the resources they require, were physically co-located. Example: European Institute of Technology Access to a VRC is provided through:

10. Virtual Research Environment A VRE is a set of online tools, systems and processes to facilitate or enhance the research process. The purpose of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is to provide researchers with the tools and services they need to do research of any type as efficiently and effectively as possible. VREs help individual researchers –manage the increasingly complex range of tasks involved in doing research. –facilitate collaboration among communities of researchers, –resource discovery, data collection, data analysis, simulation, collaboration, communication, publishing, research administration, and project management

11. VRE MIDDLEWAREMIDDLEWARE Experiment Computing Storage Analysis Scientist From eScience to e-Social science

12. Role of NREN’s Increasingly Social Sciences and Humanities will use, process, store digital resources and will create VRC’s and VLE’s But without the necessary ICT background or skills New intermediary “breed” will (have to) emerge with the expertise to join-up services to enable communities to function, as well as collaboration facilitators and managers who are able to translate the requirements into functional specifications Are NREN’s willing to take up this challenge and to move the stack of services they provide. Are the NRENs prepared to move the technologies into a wider set of communities and begin to change cultures and behaviours.? EIT might become the next test case

13. What is your TARGET?

14. Framework Programme 7

15. Research infrastructures 2008 M€ Research for SMEs 1228 M€ Regions of knowledge 126 M€ Research potential 320 M€ Science in society 329 M€ Int’l cooperation 182 M€ Cooperation Ideas Capacities JRC + Euratom + People FP7 – Capacities budget (provisional figures)

16. support to existing research infrastructures support to new research infrastructures support measures Stimulate the efficient use and development of existing infrastructures Foster the emergence of new infrastructures of pan-European interest FP7 – a new framework for more ambitious goals

17. support to existing research infrastructures support to new research infrastructures support measures FP7 – key activities Integrating activities ICT based e-Infrastructures ICT based e-Infrastructures European policy, international cooperation, emerging needs Design studies Construction of new RIs (preparatory and implementation phases)

18. support to existing research infrastructures support to new research infrastructures support measures FP7 – key instruments Coordination and support actions ESFRI Roadmap (cooperation with e-IRG) Preparatory phase: C ollaborative projects + Coordination/support action Implementation phase: Direct loans + guarantee to EIB loans (RSFF) + innovative procurement ESFRI Roadmap (cooperation with e-IRG) Preparatory phase: C ollaborative projects + Coordination/support action Implementation phase: Direct loans + guarantee to EIB loans (RSFF) + innovative procurement Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3)  Networking activities  Service Activities  Joint Research Activities Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3)  Networking activities  Service Activities  Joint Research Activities Collaborative projects + Coordination and support actions Collaborative projects + Coordination and support actions

19. support to existing research infrastructures support to new research infrastructures FP7 e-Infrastructures - new layers, new infrastructures............... New FP6 Network infrastructure Grid infrastructure Scientific facilities Scientific data infrastructure

20. FP7 – addressing the new scientific data layer Further development and evolution of GÉANT and grids Foster adoption by new user communities, enhance global relevance, increase level of trust and confidence anticipate and integrate new requirements and solutions Foster the emergence of Europe as a world scientific data hub. Deploy data repositories for the scientific community and future generations of scientists supporting, in a coordinated way, digital libraries, archives, data storage, data curation, access to information and the necessary pooling of resources.