Transcript SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES RELEVANT TO BRAG …

EDIT kick-off meeting
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congratulations!
high visibility project
potential high policy and political impact
unsurpassed opportunity to structure
European taxonomic future
• major contribution to global effort
• builds on many years work by previous
successful projects
• deliverables should have lasting impact
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“Network of Excellence”
• A “new instrument” of FP6
“instrument”
“means of achieving an objective of the EC’s
research policy”
Integrated Project
Project of excellence
Network of Excellence
Network of integration
Objective
achieve lasting improvements in the way
research is done
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NoE: the premise
• Research in Europe could be more effective
• Currently fragmented and un-coordinated
• The NoE is designed to achieve
integration between participating institutes
Strategic (policy and philosophy)
Administrative (management decisions)
Scientific (objectives, methods, resources)
Enduring after the EU funding ends
• Research results are not the main outcome
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One organisation, many topics
limited
competence
organisation
No organisation
is equally good
at all the areas
in which it has
competence
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significant
competence
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What we have and what we want
Innefficient
competition
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Rationalised
collaboration
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NoE: the players
• integration between participating institutes
Strategic
Administrative
Scientific
Enduring
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Director wants integration
Managerial level agrees
Scientists see + feel benefit
Buy-in by all staff
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EDIT seen from over here
• a very important flagship project
• a great deal depends on its success
scientifically
for implementation of environmental policy
for success of European research policy
for GBIF
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ecology of FP6
ALTER-Net
MARBEF
ALARM
EDIT
FRAP
DAISIE
IntraBioDiv
Glochamore
SoBio
EUMon
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marine
genomics
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, GLOBAL CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEMS
GREENVEINS
ALARM-o-centric
History
GIANT ALIEN
Western corn rootworm
Giant hogweed
MOSES
agroecosystems
Climate change
ATEAM
DIABROTICA
ACCELERATES
agroecosystems
Ecosystem modelling
ATLANTIS
EPIDEMIE
AVEC
Sea level change
Vulnerable ecosystems
Mediterranean islands
Invasives
CONTROCAM
ERBIC
Horse chestnut leafminer
Biocontrol introductions
ENBI
EuroCat
FAUNA EUROPEA
EURO+MED Plantbase
plants
ALARM
FLORA EUROPEA
BIOMAN
GLORIA
LEDA
Shallow lakes
Species distribution
Social and
economic
Chemicals
MACMAN
Maculinea butterflies
Pollinators
GREAT-ER
VALSE
SUSTRA
Risk modelling
valuation
Sustainability strategies
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BABE
bees
BioAssess
BiolFlor
indicators and monitoring
DAISIE
EuMon
BioStrat
invasives
monitoring
strategy
protocols
Greenveins
Invasives
RUBICODE
conservation strategies
BioScore
species index
ALTER-Net
habitat fragmentation
monitoring
EcoChange
modelling
EDIT
NoMiracle
taxonomy and systematics
Modelkey
EnRisk
Risk assessment
GREAT-ER
ALARM
ENSEMBLES
OSIRIS
climate modelling
Climate change
Social and
economic
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MACIS
Pollinators
Chemicals
climate change
COCONUT
habitat fragmentation
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NoE performance indicators
• If NoEs are designed to overcome fragmentation
How do we measure progress?
• key requirement: a set of verifiable indicators
• Progress of NoE assessed against
expected durable integration at the end of EC funding
expected intermediate steps at the end of each
implementation period
• indicators of the progress achieved are
quantitative goals easily checked at the end of each year
or qualitative goals which need analysis
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What do we want from EDIT?
• Greater capacity for better research
Long term taxonomic research network
shared protocols including metadata
shared data and data structures
• Integration is the key aim
functional and effective inter-institutional
agreements and decision-making process
no un-necessary overlap, no avoidable gaps
strategy for continued collaboration
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vision
• what will you be able to do in 5 years time
that you cannot do today?
• are there obstacles to achieving that goal?
• what do we do about those obstacles?
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EDIT and FP7
• FP7 should include opportunity for
taxonomy
• EDIT partners could form consortium to
make proposal
• Would provide scientific objective to help
consolidate integration
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examples of results to be achieved
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Communications inside the network
Common management of infrastructure
Common management of human resources
Common knowledge management
Network management
Common methods
Assured continuation after the end of EC
funding
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communications inside the network
• Fast electronic connections among
participants
• Compatible and harmonised software
• Common data classification
• Common data coding
• Common data base, directly accessible
to all participants
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common management of
infrastructure
• Shared installations and equipment
• Agreements for use of infrastructure
• Access conditions more favourable to
members than others outside network
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common management of human
resources
• Mobility programmes among participants
• Common training programmes for personnel
• Training programmes for students and
researchers outside partnership
• Harmonised working conditions
salaries
social protection
etc.
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common knowledge management
• Participants share pre-existing knowledge
• Intellectual property rights over results
generated by network fairly distributed
• Common patents
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common tools
• Establishment of common methods
• All participants use common tools
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network management
• participant organisations in legal structure
• participants share management principles
• partners participate in decisions
perhaps weighted using objective criteria
• Steering Committee
of decision-making staff
of all partners
meets regularly and frequently
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continuation after EC funding
• all participants work on a shared portfolio of
projects
• Search for external funding sources
• Decreasing dependence on EC funding
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Myths
• DG Research is just a funding agency
• NoEs are about doing better research
• Curiosity-driven research is different from
policy-relevant research
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Myth 1
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DG Research - a funding agency?
Initiating and implementing research policy
Building a European Research Area
Supporting other EU policies with science
Funds research to implement this policy
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Myth 2
NoEs - about better research?
• Helping institutions to collaborate to
establish conditions for better research
efficiencies of scale
achievement of critical mass
shared objectives and programme of work
• Integration of institutions
not primarily a research issue
needs involvement of directors
• Research may contribute to the integration
always keeping objective in mind
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Myth 3
Curiosity - not policy relevant?
• Almost all research may have relevance to
policy
• How are the results communicated, and to
whom?
knowledge management
within the project
outside the project
develop structure to deliver
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