Presentation from the H2020 panel session at the LIBER 2014 Conference in Riga

1. Horizon 2020 Opportunities
for Research Libraries
Susan Reilly
Advocacy & Projects Manager, LIBER

2. What is Horizon 2020?
“Flagship initiative aimed at securing
Europe’s global competitiveness.”
Nearly 80 billion EUR of funding
available 2014 – 2020. The EU’s
largest ever Research and Innovation
Programme.
Simplified funding rules and
streamlined application and
evaluation procedures: “time to grant”
reduced to a maximum of 8 months.
“A means to drive economic growth
and create jobs … a genuine single
market for knowledge, research and
innovation.”

3. What is Horizon 2020?
 Couples research to
innovation.
 Focuses on societal
challenges (e.g. health,
environment, energy,
transport)
facing European peoples.
 Simplifies access to funding
for institutions, universities
and companies.

4. The Three Pillars
EXCELLENT SCIENCE
INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP
SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

6. How does H2020 relate to the LIBER strategy: supporting a
world class information infrastructure?
Advocacy
Reshaping
The
research library
Scholarly
Communication
&
Research
Infrastructure
New data
professionals
Improved and
connected
infrastructure
Open access
infrastructure
Open access and
open data pilot

7. RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE (E-INFRASTRUCTURE HIGHLIGHTED)
Work Programme 2014-2015
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
DESIG
N
STUDIE
S
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
MANAGING,
PRESERVING AND
COMPUTING WITH
BIG RESERACH DATA
E-INFRASTRUCTURE
S FOR OPEN
ACCESS
CALLS IN 2014
DEADLINES SEPT 2014 AND JAN
INITIATIVES STARTING IN 2015
UNTIL 2018
TOWARDS GLOBAL
DATA
E-INFRASTRUCTURES:
RESEARCH DATA
ALLIANCE
Pan-European
2015
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-INFRASTRUCTURE
S
RESEARCH
AND
EDUCATION
NETWORKING
– GEANT
E-INFRASTRUCTURES
FOR VIRTUAL
RESEARCH
ENVIRONMENTS (VRE)
INNOVATI
ON
SUPPORT
MEASURE
S
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
INFRASTRUCTUR
ES
INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION
FOR RESEARCH
INFRASTRUCTURES
E-INFRASTRUCTURE
POLICY DEVELOPMENT
AND INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION
NETWORK OF
NATIONAL
CONTACT POINTS

8. E-infrastructures
 Managing, preserving and computing with
big data
 Data management plans? Metadata?
 Provision of core services across e-infrastructures
 Authentication, authorisation
infrastructure
 Persistent identification
 E-infrastructures for virtual research
environments
 New ways of exposing content?
 New professions and skills for e-infrastructures

9. Managing, preserving and computing
with big research data (EINFRA-1-2014)
includes
– DMP helpdesk and tools ('federated data
management services') in particular for
Horizon 2020 project participants
– Services to support project participants in any
area of Horizon 2020 for managing the life
cycle of data they collect or produce within
projects

10. EINFRA-7-2014 – Provision of core
services across e-infrastructures
– Deployment and promotion of a pan-European
identity federation for researchers, educators and
students.
– The objective is enhanced sharing of existing
resources without increase in administrative
overhead.
– Ambition: European-wide single sign-on service.

11. INFRASUPP-4-2015 – New professions
and skills for e-infrastructures
– Formal education for e-infrastructure operators,
research technologists, data scientists and data
librarians.
• Defining or updating university curricula.
• Developing and executing training programmes.
• Networking and information sharing and awareness raising
activities.

12. Pilot on Open Research Data in H2020
• Areas of the 2014-2015 Work Programme participating in the Open Research
Data Pilot are:
– Future and Emerging Technologies
– Research infrastructures – part e-Infrastructures
– Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Information and
Communication Technologies
– Societal Challenge: Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy – part Smart cities
and communities
– Societal Challenge: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and
Raw materials – except raw materials
– Societal Challenge: Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative
and reflective Societies
– Science with and for Society
Projects in other areas can participate on a voluntary basis.

13. Pilot on Open Research Data in
H2020
– 20% of Horizon 2020 WP 2014-15
– Voluntary opt in and conditional opt out possible
– First H2020 calls (more than 3000 proposals): more opt-ins
than opt-outs in absolute terms.
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14. Calls Overview - e-Infrastructures (WP 2014/15)
• EINFRA-2-2014 – e-Infrastructure for Open
Access DL: 15/04/2014 (13.00)
• EINFRA-1-2014 – Managing, preserving and
computing with big research data
DL: 02/09/2014 (55.00)
• EINFRA-3-2014 – Towards global data e-infrastructures
– Research Data Alliance
DL: 02/09/2014 (4.00)
• EINFRA-4-2014 – Pan-European High
Performance Computing infrastructure and
services DL: 02/09/2014 (15.00)

15. • EINFRA-6-2014 – Network of HPC Competence
Centres for SMEs DL:
02/09/2014 (2.00)
• EINFRA-7-2014 – Provision of core services
across e-infrastructures
DL: 02/09/2014 (6.00)
• INFRASUPP-7-2014 – e-Infrastructure policy
development and international cooperation
DL: 02/09/2014 (4.00)

16. • EINFRA-9-2015 – e-Infrastructures for virtual
research environments (VRE)
DL: 14/01/2015 (42.00)
• INFRASUPP-4-2015 – New professions and
skills for e-infrastructures
DL: 14/01/2015 (2.50)
Overall indicative budget: EUR 95.00 million
from the 2014 budget26 and EUR 82:00
million from the 2015 budget

17. What else to look out for…
• Europe in a changing world – inclusive,
innovative and reflective Societies
– For cultural heritage, digital culture, digital cultural
assets in preservation
– Most calls close in 2015
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18. Thank you!
• Questions for the panel!
susan.reilly@kb.nl