Roadmap for Large Research

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Roadmap for Large Research,
Development and Innovation
Infrastructures in the Czech Republic
May 2011 Update
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Roadmap for Large Research,
Development and Innovation
Infrastructures in the Czech Republic
May 2011 Update
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Roadmap for Large Research,
Development and Innovation
Roadmap for Large Research, Development and Innovation
Infrastructures in the Czech Republic Infrastructures in the Czech Republic
May 2011 Update
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Karmelitska 7, 118 12 Prague 1
Prague, 2011 May 2011 Update
www.msmt.cz
ISBN 978-80-87601-16-7 Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
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Introduction to Research Focus
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11.. The Updated Roadmap - What Is New? 7 1. Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) 16
1.1. Current Status | 1.2. SWOT Analysis | 1.3. High-priority Projects | 1.4. Promising Projects
22.. The Structural Funds and Their Use 10 2. Environmental Sciences (ENVI) 26
for Establishing Large Infrastructures 2.1. Current Status | 2.2. SWOT Analysis | 2.3. High-priority Projects| 2.4. Promising Projects
3. Materials Physics and Space 36
33.. Cooperation with Industry and Universities 13
3.1. Current Status | 3.2. SWOT Analysis | 3.3. High-priority Projects | 3.4. Promising Projects
4. Energy 52
4.1. Current Status | 4.2. SWOT Analysis | 4.3. High-priority Projects | 4.4. Promising Projects
5. Biomedicine 62
5.1. Current Status | 5.2. SWOT Analysis | 5.3. High-priority Projects | 5.4. Promising Projects
6. Informatics/e-Infrastructure 76
6.1. Current Status | 6.2. SWOT Analysis | 6.3. High-priority Projects
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Annex
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1. List of Abbreviations 88
2. Overview of the Composition of Working Groups 94
3. Table of Projects 96
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A
Introduction
part
11.. The Updated Roadmap
11
What Is New?
The Updated Roadmap
What Is New? page 77
The update to the 2010 version of the Roadmap for Large Research, Development1 and Innovation Infrastructures
in the Czech Republic (hereinafter the “Czech Roadmap”) supplements the text of the first version2, which was ap-
proved by Government Decree No. 207 of 15 March 2010, with information obtained through the developments
22 that have taken place with regard to large infrastructures between 2010 and 2011. As is the case with the original
version, this update is based on the concepts contained in the European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures (the
The Structural Funds
ESFRI Roadmap).
and Their Use for Establishing
Large Infrastructures page 1100 In 2010, steps were taken at the national level to strengthen the “Council”). The Council’s primary tasks consist of evalua-
the strategic approach for large research, development and ting the infrastructure proposals submitted for financing and
innovation infrastructures (hereinafter “large infrastructu- performing an assessment of the strategic steps taken by the
res”). The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Czech Republic at the national and European levels.
established the Council for Large Infrastructures (hereinafter
At the start of 2010, the government approved the first fifte-
en large infrastructure projects for financing.3 This launched
33 the implementation stage of the Czech Roadmap. Prior to this
1 In accordance with Section 2 (1)(c) of Act No. 130/2002 Coll., on support for
time, large infrastructure projects were financed either from
research, development and innovation from public funds and amendments to cer-
the INGO Programme in the case of facilities and equipment
tain other legislation (the Research and Development Support Act), the entire
Cooperation with Industry text uses “development” as the simplified term for “experimental development”. located outside of the Czech Republic or through the Centre
for Basic Research and Research Aims in the case of national
and Universities page 1133 2 The Czech and English versions of the Roadmap are accessible at: http://www. infrastructures. The projects approved by the government for
msmt.cz/vyzkum/schvaleny-text-cestovni-mapy.
financing interconnect the national research platform with the
3 The following projects were approved: BBMRI, CESNET, CESSDA, CzechCOS/
European platform and integrate the Czech Republic in the
ICOS, CzechGeo/EPOS, CzechPolar, CZERA, ESS, ESS – Survey, JHR, LINDAT/CLA-
RIN, PALS, Řež Reactors, SHARE, and ThALES. European Research Area.
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Development and Innovation
Infrastructures in the Czech Republic
part A  8 9
There was also an important move forward with regard to the and that new projects will be defined according to the manner Project Selection Criteria In addition to performing research and development acti-
Structural Funds in 2010. The first financing was provided for in which research organisations respond to their specific needs vities, a large infrastructure facilitates knowledge transfer
some of the regional projects submitted under the Research and requirements for basic research. A fairly new trend can be In order to be included in the updated Czech Roadmap, the (training and education for students, doctoral candidates,
and Development for Innovation Operational Programme (RDI seen in the fact that some of the infrastructures are no lon- same criteria were used as for the previous version in accor- postdoctoral researchers, scientists and other experts, as
OP). Some of these projects are of an important infrastructu- ger field-specific, but tend to serve several scientific disciplines dance with the definition of a “large infrastructure” as set out well a link to the consumer sector).
ral nature, such as BIOMEDREG. Out of the Structural Funds concurrently. in Section 2 (2)(f) of Act No. 130/2002 Coll., on support for
allocated for Prague, financing was provided to the SAFMAT research, development and innovation from public funds and Thematically focused working groups used the above criteria
project (nanomaterials) and to the Czech portion of the EU- It is important to emphasise that large infrastructures play an amendments to certain other legislation (the Research and to evaluate the submitted project proposals. The fact that a
OPENSCREEN project (biomedicine). Major individual RDI OP integrative role in the fairly fragmented administrative system Development Support Act). These criteria are as follows: project is included in the Czech Roadmap does not in any way
projects, specifically the ELI, Sustainable Energy, CEITEC, ICRC, that is in place in the Czech Republic for supporting research, guarantee that the project will be implemented or that any
IT4Innovations, and BIOCEV projects, underwent the evalua- development and innovation. The involvement of Czech teams A large infrastructure contributes towards fulfilling the pri- financing will be provided for the infrastructure’s operations.
tion process at the national level and were sent to the Euro- in the work performed at foreign large infrastructures and the orities defined for applied research, development and inno-
pean Commission for assessment. The ELI Beamlines project inclusion of Czech infrastructures in the European Research vation in the CR for the 2009-2011 period.1 The projects that are included in the Czech Roadmap are fur-
was the first to receive a decision from the European Com- Area (ERA) are reflected in the excellence of the CR’s research ther separated into high-priority projects and promising
mission (in April 2010). The decisions for the remaining major efforts. Both of these facts should be taken into account when A large infrastructure is a unique set of facilities and activi- projects according to the following criteria:
projects are expected to be issued by no later than the third implementing the Czech Roadmap. ties that have costly operations.
quarter of 2011.
The support provided for large infrastructures is an insepa- A large infrastructure is essential in order to ensure the The projects that are classified as high-prio-
The majority of states started to suffer from the impact of rable component of the broader EU effort to improve Europe’s quality of basic research. The research that is performed rity involve:
the financial crisis in 2010, which, in the case of some sta- competitive strength. The Europe 2020 Strategy approved by using the infrastructure must attain a level of scientific,
tes, was reflected in their efforts to decrease public financing, the European Council as a part of the Innovation Union Flags- technical or methodical excellence. It must help to generate infrastructures that already exist and are in operation;
often at the expense of the funding allocated for research. hip Initiative places emphasis on completing the European a critical number of material, financial and human resour-
The resulting atmosphere is one in which research results are Research Area. All of the large infrastructure projects make a ces and it must also be of key importance for research and infrastructures that are included in structural fund projects
critically evaluated, including the impact of large infrastructu- significant contribution towards this goal. development at both the national as well as the European for which a grant has been provided;
re operations. At the European level, the ESFRI Infrastructure levels.
Evaluation Group has started the task of reviewing the exi- infrastructures that are included in structural fund projects
OOnnee ooff tthhee ggooaallss ffoorr tthhee IInnnnoovvaattiioonn UUnniioonn iiss
sting procedures and proposing possible evaluation methodo- A large infrastructure plays an important role in the overall that have already been evaluated at the national (or natio-
logies for those infrastructures that are classified as relevant ttoo ssttaarrtt oorr ccoommpplleettee 6600%% ooff tthhee hhiigghh--pprriioorriittyy strategy of the development field in which it is active. nal and international) level and for which the negotiations
for the European Research Area. The European Commission have led to positive results; and
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also voiced its support for the MERIL project, which is aimed A large infrastructure provides “open access”, i.e. it is ac-
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at creating a European portal for research infrastructures, cessible to the entire scientific community and provides projects that link the above-mentioned to an international
whether they are international or national infrastructures with rraattiioonnaall pprrooggrraammmmeess ssuubbmmiitttteedd bbyy tthhee iinnddii-- research services to external users on the basis of tenders network or at least to a distributed European infrastructu-
European scope and importance. As a result of this activity, evaluated by independent experts, who look at the quality re.
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the question arises as to whether it might not be appropriate of the project that is submitted as the main selection crite-
to create a detailed “List of National Large Infrastructures”, oorrddeerr ttoo ffaacciilliittaattee tthhee uussee ooff CCoohheessiioonn PPoolliiccyy rion. The project proposals that are classified as
which would be considered as irreplaceable for the purpose of ffuunnddss ffoorr tthhiiss ppuurrppoossee.. promising include:
research, development and innovation in the Czech Republic. A large infrastructure is linked to the RDI OP projects (the
In addition to preparing a list of large infrastructures based on construction phase is completed using financing from the proposals that are included in structural fund projects,
certain predefined characteristics of a large infrastructure, it Another key European topic addresses the creation of syn- Structural Funds). which have undergone the national evaluation process and
is also necessary to clarify the relationship between the Road- ergy between the Cohesion Policy and the future strategic will enter into the negotiation phase by 1 May 2011 in the
map for Large Research, Development and Innovation Infra- framework for financing research and innovation at the Euro- A large infrastructure is linked to the projects contained in case of RDI OP projects; or
structures in the Czech Republic and the specifically targeted pean level; strengthening the mobility of research infrastructu- the ESFRI Roadmap and is integrative in nature.
financing for certain large infrastructure projects. The MEYS re workers, even those holding technical positions; and the proposals included in structural fund projects, which are in
Council for Large Infrastructures will take on the responsibility possibility of using large infrastructures to meet the needs of either the evaluation phase or in the project objective defi-
for this task in 2011. In the future, it can be expected that today’s society. 1 The priorities for applied research are in included in the National Policy for Re- nition phase; and
certain projects will be integrated into the Czech Roadmap search, Development and Innovation for 2009-2015, which was approved by the
government by Decree No. 729 of 8 June 2009 (http://www.vyzkum.cz/).
Roadmap for Large Research,
Development and Innovation
Infrastructures in the Czech Republic
part A  10 11
other projects based on the proposals submitted by the on a recommendation made by the peer review group. The EUR 2.43 billion has been allocated for this operational pro- ELI project is to build the world’s most modern laser facility,
thematic groups (including those that still need to better reason for this reclassification is that it is currently difficult gramme, of which 85% (EUR 2.07 billion) consists of financing thus making it possible to implement a number of research
define the specific large infrastructure that is involved). to determine whether they truly involve large infrastructures from the European Union and 15% (EUR 0.36 billion) is financed and application projects that use intense light interactions un-
or not. from the Czech Republic’s national budget. The period during der extreme material conditions.
One exception to the above rules consists of the RDI OP CV- which this funding must be used has been set as 2007 to 2013
VOZE and INEF energy projects and the major Sustainable or 2015, as applicable.
Energy project, which have already been approved, but have
BIOCEV – Biotech & Biomed Research Centre
been reclassified as promising rather than high-priority based Large infrastructures of pan-European importance are eligible
to receive financing primarily within Priority Axes 1 and 2. One BIOCEV is a joint project of the various institutes that fall un-
of the most essential steps with regard to defining projects that der the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (specifically
have an international impact was the “pre-call” for the submis- the Institute of Molecular Genetics, the Institute of Microbio-
sion of major projects1 for the RDI OP, which took place in July logy, the Institute of Physiology, the Institute of Experimental
2008. The key selection criteria required a partnership with an Medicine, the Institute of Biotechnology, and the Institute of
22.. The Structural Funds and Their Use for
ESFRI research infrastructure and a link to the Seventh Fra- Macromolecular Chemistry) and the Charles University as re-
mework Programme. In November 2009 calls were published for presented by two separate faculties (the Faculty of Sciences
Establishing Large Infrastructures the submission of projects for Priority Axes 1 and 2. Certain ma- and the First Faculty of Medicine). The Centre will be establis-
jor projects were submitted for these calls in addition to stan- hed in Vestec in the Central Bohemian Region, a region which
dard projects. The implementation of major projects is subject is suffering from an outflow of the workforce to Prague. This
to the approval of the European Commission in Accordance to project for creating a biotechnological and biomedical centre
a Council (EC) Directive. The following projects were submitted has ambitions of becoming a European centre of excellence,
Many public and private institutions involved in research, development and innovation in the Czech Republic currently
for Priority Acid 1 and received a positive response: BIOCEV, which will concentrate teams of renowned experts, who have
face problems associated with the limited capacity of research facilities, insufficient material means, the loss of talent
CEITEC, ELI, FNUSA-ICRC, and IT4Innovations. The Sustainable thus far been scattered across several partnership workplaces
to facilities abroad, a lack of specialised personnel, and insufficient cooperation with the application sector. Energy project was submitted for Priority Axis 2. BIOMEDREG of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Char-
and CzechGlobe are two examples of projects that have a Euro- les University, and will supplement them with teams of young
pean dimension. scientists and experts from abroad. BIOCEV will help to close
Many public and private institutions involved in research, de- different objectives for economic and social cohesion policy, the gap that currently exists in the professional environment
velopment and innovation in the Czech Republic currently face specifically the Convergence Objective, the Regional Competiti- for developing the advanced biotechnological industry in the
A description of the projects is provided
problems associated with the limited capacity of research faci- veness and Employment Objective, and the European Territorial Czech Republic. The BIOCEV project includes the Czech portion
below.
lities, insufficient material means, the loss of talent to facilities Cooperation Objective. of the project for developing the ESFRI INFRAFRONTIER and
abroad, a lack of specialised personnel, and insufficient coopera- ELI – Extreme Light Infrastructure Euro-BioImaging infrastructures.
tion with the application sector. Seven regional operational programmes, which aim to support
regional development (NUTS 2), and eight thematic operational The ELI project, which will be implemented in Dolní Břežany, is
The Czech research environment currently faces a great chal- programmes have been defined for the Convergence Objective. included in the European plan for developing the next gene- CEITEC – Central European Institute of Tech-
lenge, as the Structural Funds provide an opportunity to use One of the thematic operational programmes for the regions is ration of large research facilities as identified and selected by
nology
European Union funds and to convert them into the realisation the Research and Development of Innovation Operational Pro- ESFRI. The ELI project will result in an international research
of scientific objectives and plans, thus contributing to the Czech gramme (RDI OP), which is focused on strengthening the Czech facility that will use innovative laser technology to generate CEITEC will provide an environment for excellent research and
Republic’s integration in the European Research Area. Republic’s competitiveness and on creating highly-qualified jobs the most intense light beams in the world. The ELI Research for post-graduate and doctoral studies in the disciplines of na-
through better defining the conditions required for the existence Centre will be a pioneer in many research areas that use ultra- notechnology, microtechnology, molecular biology, genomics,
As far as the Structural Funds are concerned, during the 2007– and operation of research, development and innovation centres, intense lasers. As far as the Czech Republic is concerned, it and proteomics and their application in the fields of advanced
2013 period, the Czech Republic is drawing from twenty-four universities and others. The RDI OP provides support for increa- represents a unique opportunity to host an important interna- materials and medicine. The cutting-edge technology that is
operational programmes, two Interact II programmes (service sing the capacity of existing research and development centres, tional research infrastructure. The mission of the ELI project in- used will facilitate the synergistic study of the earth and life
programmes designed solely for the use of the operational pro- for the establishment of new institutions in the Czech Repub- corporates not only basic academic research, but also applied sciences at all existing levels of complexity, starting with in-
gramme management structures under Objective 3), and the lic’s regions, and for accelerating the transfer of research and research that has a direct social impact. The primary aim of the dividual atoms, molecules and molecular groups, up to entire
ESPON 2013 programme, all of which are focused on supporting development results into practice and their introduction in the organisms. The CEITEC project is built on the mutual synergy
research and development for territorial planning and regional industry sector and on the market. that exists between seven research programmes. The project
development. These programmes are divided between three 1 A “major project” is defined as a project for which the total expenditure (eligible partners comprise Masaryk University, the Brno University of
and non-eligible) exceeds EUR 50 million.
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Development and Innovation
Infrastructures in the Czech Republic
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33.. Cooperation with Industry and
Technology, the Mendel University in Brno, the University of perform experimental development and innovation in the field
Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno, the Veterina- of long-term sustainable energy as an essential condition for
ry Research Institute, and the Institute of Physics of Materials improving the competitive strength of the Czech economy. The Universities
of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. As a result goal is to establish a centre for performing theoretic and ex-
of the broad range of disciplines that are covered, the CEITEC perimental research in the area of procedures and materials,
infrastructures fall within two thematic areas of the Roadmap including their subsequent practical application, in the interest
– material physics and space (the areas of the CEITEC project of attaining an acceptable level of safety and environmental
Large infrastructures play a key role in providing an environment for talented young scientists and leading research-
dealing with nanostructures and advanced materials) and bi- impact for energy facilities, particularly facilities that use nuc-
ers. As they are a meeting place for students, academicians and research and development employees from the
omedicine (which covers the Czech portion of the INSTRUCT lear processes. This will facilitate the gradual replacement of
project, participation in the EuroBioimaging infrastructures, traditional processes that are dependent on coal and crude oil, industry sector, large infrastructures represent an effective platform for the open and direct exchange of skills and
and the Czech Centre for Medical Genomics). thereby increasing effectiveness, decreasing production costs, knowledge.
reducing CO2 emissions, and recycling the greatest possible
amount of raw materials. The Sustainable Energy project has In the case of large infrastructures, the transfer of technolo- activities and the use of intellectual property rights, and to-
IT4Innovations been conceived on the basis of the objectives defined in the gies to the application sphere is accomplished by, amongst wards the transfer of technologies and the commercialisation
EU’s energy policy and the goals of nuclear energy technologi- other things, technological clusters and spin-off companies or of research and development results.
The global objective of the IT4Innovations project is to esta- cal platforms and has been designed in a way that will make it through technological parks built in close proximity to large in-
blish a national centre of excellence for information technology directly usable for European research initiatives and will allow frastructures. This makes it possible to develop the innovation Large infrastructures have an indisputable impact on human
research in the Czech Republic. The project includes the creati- the subsequent in-kind participation of Czech industry in lar- potential of the Czech and international companies that are resource development in research. The ability to study com-
on of a research environment, including adequate infrastructu- ge demonstrative projects (in particular, the use of the most linked to large infrastructures in this way. bined with the opportunity to work in the creative and moti-
re, focused primarily on academic IT research associated with modern Generation III+ and IV nuclear reactors). This will help vating environment that is provided by large infrastructures
the development of computational methods and, in particular, to guarantee the prerequisites for expanding the export po- The direct involvement of industrial companies in large infra- attracts university students and professors alike. The consorti-
on ways in which IT can be effectively used for further research tential of Czech industry in areas that have a high added value structures occurs in the form of building activities during the ums that are created lead to close cooperation between lar-
or in the application sphere. The main investment will consist and significant market potential. construction phase and also due to their involvement in the ge infrastructures and universities in the form of educational
of a high-performance supercomputer, which is a key condition manufacture of highly specialised components for the mea- programmes. One of the specific characteristics of large infra-
for the implementation of the research plan for the IT4Innova- suring equipment that is used by large infrastructures. During structures is that they are also used by national and interna-
tions Centre of Excellence, including the means for maintaining FNUSA-ICRC – St. Anne’s University Hospital the operational phase, industrial companies are involved in the tional research teams to find solutions to key research and
the centre. The supercomputer infrastructure will be accessible maintenance and renewal of large infrastructures. Additional- development projects. As large infrastructures bring students
in Brno – International Clinical Research
to a wide range of users and will be connected to e-infra- ly, industry uses the service provided by large infrastructures into contact with representatives from the industry sector,
Centre
structures at both the national as well as the European levels, and the measurement results are used for developing innova- they contribute towards inter-sector mobility and the employ-
primarily through the CESNET Association and involvement in The goal of the FNUSA-ICRC project is to establish a top-quali- tive products. ment of students in the research and development divisions of
the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) ty international centre for applied medical research, which will industrial companies.
infrastructure activities. Five research organisations are the use the most contemporary methods for cooperation in order Experience with large infrastructures from abroad provide an
project partners and have contributed research capacities, to speed up the development of breakthrough medical and estimate of the long-term economic rate of return from large
which are active and are achieving results in the areas covered diagnostic techniques, new technologies (including biotechno- infrastructures that is based on approximately 70% of the
by the IT4Innovations project, specifically these are the Vysoká logies and nanotechnologies), and new medications by at least operating costs (personnel expenses, supplies and technical
škola báňská – Technical University of Ostrava, the Institute of 50%. The FNUSA-ICRC project represents the culmination of equipment) being invested in the local economy where the
Geonics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the almost ten years of successful cooperation in medical research infrastructure is located. The support provided for establis-
Brno University of Technology, the University of Ostrava, and between the experts from the St. Anne’s University Hospital hing and developing large infrastructures in the regions, the
the Silesian University in Opava. in Brno and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Massachusetts, USA. establishment of new educational infrastructures and their re-
The concept for the proposed ICRC project is based on the construction, including the involvement of the public research
more than four decades of experience that the Mayo Clinic has and development sector in meeting the requirements of the
Sustainable Energy with operating its own clinical research centre – the General application sector, leads to a gradual improvement in innova-
Clinical Research Center (GCRC). Currently the Mayo Clinic is tion capacity and the final use of research and development
The key objective of the Sustainable Energy project is to the main strategic academic partner for the project. The ICRC results. The involvement of partners from the research and
develop two regional research centres (in the NUTS 2 Sou- will be focused primarily on cardiovascular and neurological application sectors contributes towards realising the strategic
thwest and NUTS 2 Central Bohemia Regions), which will research with possible overlap into other fields. focus of public research, towards supporting entrepreneurial
Distribution of Large
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The following material provides an overview of the current strengths and weaknesses,
part
strategic procedures and the selection of projects according to the specific focus of the
research that they support.
1 4
Social Sciences
and Humanities (SSH) Energy
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page page
2 5
Environmental
Sciences (ENVI) Biomedicine
26 62
page page
3 6
Materials Physics Informatics
and Space /e-Infrastructure
36 76
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Infrastructures in the Czech Republic
část B1 | Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) 16
Social Sciences 1
and Humanities (SSH)
1.1. Current Status . . . . . . . . 18
1.2. SWOT Analysis . . . . . . . . 20
1.3. High-priority Projects . . . . . . . . 21
1.4. Promising Projects . . . . . . . . 24