The document discusses the European Commission's efforts to support e-infrastructure and e-science. It outlines several key initiatives, including the Digital Agenda for Europe, which aims to maximize benefits of digital technologies. Major projects include the PRACE partnership for advanced supercomputing and efforts to build pan-European high-speed networks like GÉANT to enable scientific collaboration and access to data resources across borders. The Commission sees e-infrastructure as crucial to enabling cutting-edge e-science and helping European researchers address global challenges.

1. 15 March 2011 Fraunhofer IME Science Seminar European Parliament, Brussels Science in the Digital Age What is the Commission doing? Carl-Christian Buhr European Commission (All expressed views are those of the speaker.)

2. Actors Neelie Kroes Máire Geoghegan-Quinn Digital Agenda Research & Innovation The College of Commissioners

3. Advising on... Scientific Information e-Infrastructures (FP7 Capacities Programme) etc. http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU , @ NeelieKroesEU http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda http://bit.ly/cc_buhr , @ ccbuhr

4. The DAE sets out a vision and an action plan. 101 Actions Chapter 5 on ICT Research + Infrastructures First Flagship Initiative of the EU2020 Strategy

7. Importance of embracing the e-Science paradigm shift Strategic role of e-Infrastructures as a crucial asset underpinning European research and innovation Need reinforced and coordinated effort by Member States and the scientific community 2009 Commission Communication: ICT Infrastructures for e-Science ICT Infrastructures for e-Science (COM(2010)245, 19.05.2010), http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri =COM:2009:0108:FIN:EN:PDF

8. Global challenges Big distances, big numbers, big files Virtual-labs, information flood Science & technology: positive loop e-Infrastructures changing Science, Scientists changing e-infrastructures On the verge of a new scientific renaissance e-Science Climate simulation, Virtual Physiological Human, virtual experimentation, etc. CERN : Large Hadron Collider 600m collisions/s, data needs to get to 7000 scientists in dozens of countries.

9. Complexity calls for multi-disciplinarity Eumorphia/ Phenotypes Mutants Large resources in related disciplines Mouse Atlas Source: Graham Cameron (EBI) Chemical data resources Biodiversity data resources Flybase MGD SGD IMGT Pasteur DBs Core biomolecular resources biomolecular data Specialist resource examples Model organism resource examples Medical data resources BRENDA

10. e-Science & e-Infrastructures e-Science Scientific Communities Geographically spread Culture heterogeneity Problem complexity Volumes of information Ensuring quality of information Lack of incentives to share Organisational barriers e-Infrastructures Connectivity Collaboration Processing, Simulation Repositories of data Curation/Review Recognition, provenance, trust Governance models/Knowledge advantage

12. To facilitate a rapid transition to e-Science , the European Commission and Member States have made significant investments in e-Infrastructures: What we can do for Science Linking all at light speed GÉANT Accessing knowledge scientific data Innovating the scientific process global virtual research communities Designing future facilities PRACE - High-Performance Computing Sharing the best resources e-Science distributed computing

14. For example: European Grid Initiative http://www.egi.eu/ http://rtm.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/webstart.php

15. For example: PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe Supercomputing is a key priority to boost Europe’s scientific performance. PRACE aims to deploy an ecosystem of Petascale machines in Europe, aiming at attaining exa-scale performance by 2020. http://www.prace-project.eu/

16. And data? http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave ” Our Vision is a scientific e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use, and trust of data. In a sense [...] the data themselves become the infrastructure – a valuable asset, on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance”.

17. Scientific Data Infrastructure Initiatives Chemistry network infrastructure, GÉANT biology distributed computing/software infrastructure astro Earth Obs Climate scientific data infrastructure