Jarkko Siren is Project Officer in DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission. Jarkko's presentation gives an introduction to public engagement in research at the European Commission

1. Birmingham, 13 November 2014
Research and public engagement
RLUK Conference 2014
Jarkko Siren
European Commission
DG CONNECT
eInfrastructure

2. PE in Research: what is it?
• Multi-actor engagement: involvement of a wide diversity of
stakeholders representing research, industry/SME, policy and public
bodies, including civil society organisations, and possibly citizens
• Societal engagement: involvement of organised civil society (eg:
NGO) and unorganised groupings thereof (eg: a neighbourhood
group), and/or citizens (citizen engagement)
• Bringing on board the widest possible diversity of actors to
deliberate on matters of science and technology: including ethical
issues, inclusiveness, transparency, diversity, and creativity. It
implies a two-way process and should include feedback loops.

3. PE in Research: expected benefits
• Consideration of a broader range of societal needs and perspectives,
key towards tackling the complex and interconnected societal
challenges
• Outcomes more societally relevant and desirable
• Greater consumer acceptability of research and innovation
outcomes
• More scientifically literate society of knowledge-driven and
empowered citizens

4. PE in Horizon 2020
• Public engagement throughout Horizon 2020 is part of the
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) cross-cutting issue
• Integrated in a number of Horizon 2020 Work Programmes
• Funding: PE can be addressed in
• addressed in specifically designed call topics and
• embedded in larger initiatives

5. PE in Horizon 2020
• Overwhelming response to the public consultation on
Horizon 2020 (more than 2000 contributions)
• Large number of other public consultations on specific areas (e.g.
Consultation on Horizon 2020 Science with and for Society Work
Programme)
• Focus on societal challenges facing EU society, e.g. health,
clean energy and transport
• A new emphasis on open access to research publications

6. PE in Horizon 2020: CSOs
Why and how to participate in the European Research and
Innovation Framework Programme Horizon 2020?
Manual for civil society organisations by Fondation Sciences Citoyennes

7. Open Access in the EC
Expanding scope
• OA to peer-reviewed scientific publications
• Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement obligation
• OA to research data / data sharing
• Horizon 2020 Open Research Data pilot
• Open Science / Science 2.0
• Open consultation (closed 30.09.2014)
• End of the road: open grant proposal evaluation?

8. Three key documents on open access
(16.07.2012)
• Communication 'A reinforced European Research Area
partnership for excellence and growth'
• Communication 'Towards better access to scientific
information: boosting the benefits of public investments in
research'
• Recommendation on access to and preservation of scientific
information

9. OA to publications mandate in H2020
• Each beneficiary must ensure OA to all peer-reviewed
scientific publications relating to its results:
• Deposit published version or final peer-reviewed
manuscript in a repository of the researchers choice
• Ensure OA on publication or at the latest within 6/12
months
• Ensure OA to the bibliographic metadata that identify the
deposited publication, via the repository
• Aim to deposit at the same time the research data
needed to validate the results ("underlying data")

10. Research Infrastructures
• Research infrastructures are facilities, resources and services that are used by the
research communities to conduct research and foster innovation.
Major scientific
equipements
Knowledge-based
resources
e-infrastructures

11. Life
Sciences and Health
Industrial & Engineering
Application for transport
and energy
Fundamental sciences: Physics,
Chemistry, Material Sciences,
Astrophysics Applications.
Weather, Climate & Earth Sciences
Simulation and
in silico experimentation

12. Data explosion

14. by Science-Metrix Inc. - Data from Scopus, using books, trade journals and peer-reviewed journals

15. Staying Competitive in Science
 Large scale collaborations becoming the norm
 often global
 virtual research communities
 access to rare/remote resources
 Data-intensive science and innovation
 Use and manage exponentially growing sets of data
 Experimentation in silico, simulation
 Use of high-performance computing

16. Research Data become the infrastructure for modern science
Europe is Riding the Wave
 Data e-infrastructure that supports seamless
access, use, re-use and trust of data
 Valuable asset on which science, technology, the
economy and society can advance
 The public has access to and can make creative
use of the huge amount of data available; it can
also contribute to the data store and enrich it. All
can be adequately educated and prepared to
benefit from this abundance of information
 Create non-specialist as well as specialist data
access, visualisation, mining and research
environments.
Riding the Wave
High Level Expert Group on Scientific
Data, October 2010
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-
infrastructure/docs/hlg-sdi-report.pdf

17. Science. Set Free.
Research results. Linked.
Open. Share. Re-use.
S c i e n t i f i c
Information
Infrastructure

18. OpenAIRE / OpenAIREplus
 Large consortium of mostly EU research libraries
 Supports EC Open Access policy
 Support for beneficiaries and EC
 Develops and operates an electronic infrastructure
 Free online access to the results of EC funded
research (and beyond) and other related services

19.  User-friendly, reliable and trustworthy way for researchers, and
citizen scientists to store and share small-scale research data
 Free upload and registration of stable research data
 Data assigned a permanent identifier, which can be retraced to
the data owner
 B2SHARE is optimized for researchers who:
 do not have adequate facilities for storing research data with
metadata,
 cannot guarantee long-term persistence of their locally-stored
data, and
 do not have adequate facilities to easily share data, results or
ideas with colleagues worldwide

20.  There is a large community of citizen scientists which is not
only interested in hydro-meteorological events, but which is
actively involved in research
 DRIHM has a specific interest in citizen scientist participation
and to supply certain services to this community, including
storing and sharing ad-hoc datasets generated by citizen
scientists.
 e-Science environment to facilitate
collaboration between
meteorologists, hydrologists and
Earth science experts for accelerated
scientific advances in hydro-
meteorological research

21.  17 telescopes in 4 continents
 GLORIA aims to provide all the tools necessary for
diverse communities to work together synergistically
to create and share new astronomy knowledge
 It offers students the opportunity to perform
scientific experiments with online web-tools using
previously collected data, or to collect their own
data using the telescopes of the network

22.  Demonstrates involvement of teachers and students
in e-Science through the use of existing e-
infrastructures
 Spark young people's interest in science and in
following scientific careers
 Community building between researchers, teachers
and students by using, sharing and exploiting the
collective power of unique scientific resources

23.  Deployment and use of an advanced service
infrastructure, incorporating public sector
information as well as data tools, supporting
governance‐related research.
 Make scientific outcomes accessible to the citizens,
so that they can monitor public service delivery and
influence the decision making.

24. Horizon 2020: Network of HPC Competence
Centres for SME's
Foster the use of HPC by SMEs, thereby contributing to the
implementation of the EC HPC strategy
Small Centres for European-wide coverage
Support one network of HPC competence centres to:
• Promote access to computational expertise anywhere in Europe
• Enable dissemination of best practice in HPC industrial use
particularly for SMEs.
NETWORK OF
HPC COMPETENCE
CENTRES FOR SMES

25. Horizon 2020: New professions and skills for e-
infrastructures
Specific Challenges:
1. Adequate support in computing and networking.
2. Training opportunities should be available at all levels and for all
communities potentially engaged in research and innovation related
activities.
Scope:
1. University curricula, training programmes and professional recognition
for e-infrastructure professionals.
2. Networking and information sharing among e-infrastructure operators
3. e-infrastructures community champions to advocate on new jobs and
skills needs at schools, universities and scientific communities
Impact:
1. More institutions offering degrees for e-infrastructure experts
2. Skill improvement of graduates and practitioners in these fields.
3. More professionals for e-science tools and services
NEW PROFESSIONS
AND SKILLS
FOR E-INFRASTRUCTURES

26. Public Engagement in Research in Horizon 2020:
where to look
• Regulation establishing Horizon 2020
• Specific Programme
• Rules for Participation
• Work Programme 2014-15
• Source for all documents: Participant Portal (reference documents)
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html

27. HORIZON 2020
Thank you
for your attention!
Find out more:
www.ec.europa/research/horizon2020
Questions on e-infrastructure calls:
CNECT-RI-CALLS@ec.europa.eu