EXTEREME LIGHT INFRASTRUCTURE ELI and experience with international cooperation Date:
What is ELI? ELI, the Extreme Light Infrastructure, will be the first laser research infrastructure world-wide which is the result of a co-ordinated effort of a multi-national scientific laser community. ELI White Book, 2011 A scientific community going global! 2 2
ELI Mission Building the world's first international laser infrastructure with a state of the art laser equipment (ultra-intense short pulse lasers and secondary sources of particles and x-rays) Enabling revolutionary science as a wide benefits to society ranging from medical and biomolecular, environment, fusion research, space science, astro-biology, fast electronics, creation of new materials, fundamental physics Creating an attractive platform for educating a new generation of PhD. students, scientists and engineer 3 3
Research Areas X-ray and gamma sources, laboratory astrophysics Proton acceleration Electron acceleration Nanotechnology and advanced materials Biology and biochemistry Medical diagnostics and treatment technology 4 4
Science is the driver The science case is why Europe has decided 11 years ago to build ELI The applications potential (the socio-economic added value) is why Europe has decided to build ELI in three CE countries, using Structural Funds 5 5
Why a Research Infrastructure? A Research Infrastructure is a unique/rare set of facilities and instruments, built and managed for service to international researchers to allow the development of unique scientific projects. The users are attracted by its quality and selected solely on the quality of the proposed projects and bring the best ideas and strongest technical challenges. The instruments, staff and management of the Infrastructure are, then, fully exposed to international competition in science, technology, education and organization. This translates into technological and educational advances, connected to economical and social returns. For this reason the EU (Countries and Commission) have developed a European strategic approach including the use of structural funds in synergy with national and EU Framework Programme funding. 6 6
ELI characteristics of international dimension ELI will be the world s first international laser research infrastructure, pursuing unique science and research applications CERN of laser research ELI is the first ESFRI project to be fully implemented in the newer EU Member States ELI will be operated as a distributed research infrastructure based on 3 specialised and complementary facilities located in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania ELI is pioneering a funding model combining the use of structural funds with national and EC funding and contributions in an ERIC 7 7
ELI roadmap initiation Parallel implementation joint operation 2008 2011 2013 2017 PP MoU ELI Delivery Consortium ELI-ERIC 8 8
Lasers in Europe A structured research landscape to meet global challenges and create economic growth European Laser Community Infrastructure Network: Laserlab- Europe ESFRI Pan-European Research Infrastructures ELI The basis Flexible instrument to perform and initiate new science beyond the national scale Mission-oriented single entities to meet global challenges Date: 9
ELI Pan-European Project ELI-BL Dolny Brezany Czech Republic ultrashort x-ray generation, particle acceleration ELI-ALPS Szeged Hungary ultrashort laser pulses at high repetition rate ELI-NP Magurele Romania ultra-intense optical and gamma ray pulses UHFS Ultra-High-Field Science unprecedented laser field strength (location: to be decided later) 10 10
Structural funds Characteristics and opportunities Structural funds allocated at the national level through 3 separate processes and grant agreements Grant beneficiaries (ELI-Hu, IoP, IFIN-HH) individually responsible for the implementation of the 3 ELI facilities ESIF: objectives of socio-economic development for the hosting regions (besides RI objectives) Additional funding of Technology Transfer 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 311 278 231 ELI-ALPS ELI-Beams ELI-NP 11 11
Now we get ELI ERIC The integration of the three Pillars will provide Europe with a unique International RI, open to scientific users on the basis of excellence, and to Industry developers through transparent and competitive procedures The Members are Governments (or International Organizations) and «may» indicate Institutions as their Representing Entities, fixing the limits of the mandate As an international organization the ERIC has tax exemptions Procurement rules are independent from EU rules But staff rules are national, and still the whole potential + limits have to be explored 12 12
Partner facilities The ERIC Member can propose a Partner Facility offering complementary techniques for users (e.g. prepare demonstration experiments, lower energy tests ) collaborating to develop new instruments, procurement training users Their role will be similar, partly overlapping, to that in LaserLab-Europe The Partner Facility should also facilitate the national community in gaining access to ELI (training, testing) 13 13
Financial Plan initiation ~ 6 M Prep. Phase parallel implementation ~ 850 M total EU Structural Funds + Host state contributions ~ 3.5 M ELITRANS joint operation 80+ M /a ELI-ERIC 2008 2011 2015 2018 ELI: the first to use a comprehensive financing instrumentarium EU R&I EU ERDF ERIC 14 14
Challenges - National level National authorities too big to fail, but also challenging to handle Challenges what is the role of national authorities in implementation of pan-european or international organization? Where can we learn that? Aspects of funding and governance - direct or indirect steering? The lesson from ELI pillars shows that each countries took in some aspects a bit different approach. 17 17
Challenges - Regional level Distributed infrastructure Distributed in Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation between pillars Cooperation x competition Balance between unification and risk sharing technology choices Little experience in coordinated actions of all kinds Building a precedent 18 18
Challenges - European level New members states after 13 years Lack of trust, history of joint actions, personal links, Funding ESIF Indirect contribution Constrained motivation, limited shared ownership Opportunity x guinea pig role stakeholders understanding, administration Cooperation between member states and EC still not on a sufficient level Struggle for resources Competition instead of cooperation Restricting mobility stay or leave Balancing the interest of the community and national infrastructures 19 19
ELI lasers for better future Date: