Baltic infrastructure collaboration – the
high-level group in RI in Baltic
countries.
Jānis Kloviņš
Structure of the talk
Update on the current situation in RI
planning
Roadmap based comparative analysis of
RI in Baltic states
ESFRI projects in Baltic states
Results of Joint Expert Group on RI
Future perspectives
Research infrastructures roadmaps - ESTONIA
 Launched in 2010
 20 objects selected from 50
submitted
 Selection based on experts reviewfollowed by panel decision
 9 projects proceeded with financing
 2012-2014 Roadmap update:
 Re-evaluation of 20 objects
 12 new proposals
 18 objects in roadmap 14 + 4 new
Research infrastructures roadmaps - ESTONIA
 Divided in 6 groups
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Social Sciences and Humanities – 2 objects
Environmental Sciences – 2 objects
Biological and Medical Sciences – 5 objects
Materials Science – 5 objects
Natural Sciences and Engineering – 3 objects
e-infrastructures – 3 objects
 Estonia joined 5 ESFRI objects, 1 in progress
Research infrastructures roadmaps – LITHUANIA
Launched in 2009
15 objects selected from 20
submitted
Selection based on international
experts review
Renewing of the roadmap has
been started
Research infrastructures roadmaps – LITHUANIA
 Divided in 3 groups
 Social Sciences and Humanities – 3 objects
 Biomedical Sciences – 6 objects
 Physical and Technological Sciences – 6 objects
Lithuania joined 1 ESFRI objects, 3 in progress
Research infrastructures roadmaps – LATVIA
Roadmap has not been
accepted yet
9 National Research Centers
selected in frame of ERDF
project
Recommendations for
roadmap and ESFRI has been
prepared by Latvian Council of
Science
ESFRI Road Map IR
Scie
BBMRI
LBMC
EU-OPENSCREEN
LOSI
INSTRUCT
LBMC
LOSI
MIRRI
LU
European Social Survey
LU
ELIXIR
LVAI
LBMC
LU MII
PRACE
RTU
LU MII
European Spallation Source
LU FI
CLARIN
LU MII
LU LLI
Research infrastructures roadmaps – LATVIA
 9 National Research Centers (NRC):
 NRC of Pharmacy and Biomedicine
 NRC of Public Health and Clinical Medicine;
 NRC of Nanostructured and Multifunctional Materials, Structures and
Technologies;
 NRC of Technologies of Acquisition and Sustainable Use of Energy and
Environmental Resources
 NRC of Use of Agricultural Resources and Food Technologies;
 NRC of Forest and Water Resources;
 NRC of Information, Communication and Signal Processing Technologies
 NRC of Social Economy and Public Management
 NRC of the Latvian Language, Cultural Heritage and Creative Technologies;
Latvia has not joined ESFRI objects, 3 in progress
Biobanking and biomedical research
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Estonian Centre for
Genomics
NRC of Pharmacy
and Biomedicine
Latvian Genome
Centre
Human Biological
Resource Center
(HBRC)
NRC of Public Health
and Clinical Medicine
Biomedicine Data
Warehousing,
Standardization
and
Analysis
RI (MEDWAN)
BBMRI-ERIC
Structural biology
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Estonian Structural
biology
Infrastructure
NRC of Pharmacy
and Biomedicine
Structural biology
Centre
Center for
Computational,
Structural
and Systems
Biology (CossyBio)
INSTRUCT-ERIC
OPENSCREEN
OPENSCREEN
Translational and clinical research
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
National Centre for
Translational and
Clinical research
NRC of Public Health
and Clinical Medicine
Research
Infrastructure of
Experimental
Animals (RIEA)
NRC of Pharmacy
and Biomedicine
EATRIS
INFRAFRONTIER
Other objects
Estonia
Estonian PET-Centre
Latvia
Lithuania
Infrastructure for
Ecological
Metabolomics
(INECOM)
EMBRC
Aerobiological
Research
Infrastructure
(AEROINFRA)
ESFRI-ERIC projects in Baltic states
Estonia
ESoS
Latvia
European Social
Survey
Common
Language Resources and Technology
Infrastructure
Biobanking and
Biomolecular Resources
Research
ELIXIR
European Life-
Science Infrastructure for Biological
Information
EATRIS
European Social
European Life-
Science Infrastructure for Biological
Information
CLARIN
Common
Language Resources and Technology
Infrastructure
BBMRI
Biobanking and
Biomolecular Resources
Research
ELIXIR
ESoS
European Social
Survey
Survey
CLARIN
BBMRI
ESoS
Lithuania
European Life-
Science Infrastructure for Biological
Information
CLARIN
Common
Language Resources and Technology
Infrastructure
BBMRI
Biobanking and
Biomolecular Resources
Research
ELIXIR
European Life-
Science Infrastructure for Biological
Information
ESFRI-ERIC projects in Baltic states
Estonia
ESS
European Spallation
Latvia
ESS
European Spallation
Lithuania
ESS
European Spallation
Source
Source
Source
INSTRUCT
INSTRUCT
INSTRUCT
An Integrated Structural Biology
Infrastructure
An Integrated Structural Biology
Infrastructure
An Integrated Structural Biology
Infrastructure
OPENSCREEN
OPENSCREEN
European Infrastructure of Open
Screening Platforms for Chemical Biology
European Infrastructure of Open
Screening Platforms for Chemical Biology
PRACE
Partnership for
Advanced Computing in Europe
PRACE
Partnership for
Advanced Computing in Europe
PRACE
Partnership for
Advanced Computing in Europe
CESSDA
Council of
European Social Science Data Archives
SHARE
Survey of Health,
Ageing and Retirement in Europe
DARIAH
Digital
Research Infrastructure for the Arts and
Humanities,
Joint expert group on infrastructure mapping
In December 2012 the Memorandum of
Understanding between the Ministries of Education
and Sciences of three Baltic states was signed
 To coordinate the R&D infrastructure development plans,
national RI roadmaps and ICT infrastructures
 Create a basis for constant exchange of information on
research and innovations
Group of 8 people was nominated:
 To map and prepare comprehensive inventory of the
research infrastructures
Joint expert group on infrastructure mapping
 Latvia
 Vadims Murašovs (Ministry of Education and Science)
 Maija Bundule (Latvian Council of Science),
 Indriķis Muižnieks (University of Latvia)
• Tālis Juhna (Riga Technical University)
 Lithuania
 Kristina Babelyté-Labanauské (Ministry of Education and Science)
 Tadas Juknevičius (Ministry of Education and Science)
 Arūnas Poviliūnas (Research Council of Lithuania).
 Estonia
 Toivo Räim (Ministry of Education and Research),
 Priit Tamm (Estonian Research Council)
Joint expert group on infrastructure mapping
Meeting in Tallinn – May 29, 2013
 Different possibilities how to proceed with mapping of research
infrastructures in Baltic countries were discussed
 start pilot collection of data on the research facilities that identify itself as
Open Access Facility -the facility should provide certain services to users.
 The quality level of facilities will be assured by agency providing information
to mapping exercise
 MERIL Data Dictionary for the Minimum Data Set used for questionnaires
Meeting in Riga – February 3, 2014
 Preliminary results of research infrastructure (RI) mapping discussed
 Decision on the form of dissemination of RI mapping results - list of Baltic RI
should be published on web
 discussion about possible RI support schemes in Baltic States, e.g. possibility
of establishing administrative and financial schemes for Estonian, Latvian and
Lithuanian researchers to access RI in Baltic States
 discuss the progress of developing Baltic Bonus programs in all three countries
Joint expert group on infrastructure mapping: RESULTS
On May 20, 2014 mapping of RI is finished: results
are available on web
Estonia : List and descriptive information with links is
provided for 8 Estonian Core Infrastructures
Latvia: List and descriptive information with links is
provided for 17 Research Infrastructures
Lithuania: Searchable list and descriptive
information with links is provided for 19 Open
Access Centers
ESTONIA
LATVIA
Lithuania
RI example
RI example
Further suggestions on RI mapping
 Managers of RI should look through the lists, comment on
them, and then become responsible for updating information
when it has been published-the agency that hosts the list on
web is to be responsible for updating this information.
 Development of a support scheme for the use of RI in the
Baltic countries is important (e.g.– to allow the use of RI for
free or for the reduced fee for the researchers from the Baltic
countries - this would be an additional Baltic Bonus scheme)
 Necessity to develop a grant system that covers the access to
RI in the Baltic countries -a proposal for the political decision
on that
Further suggestions on RI planning and collaboration
Formation of Baltic strategic infrastructure forum is
needed with the aim to create Baltic infrastructure
roadmap ( therefore, it is crucial for Latvia to
develop its roadmap first)
Expert group can identify RIs with common interests
from all Baltic States and invite the managers of
these RI to meeting in order to develop proposals for
Baltic infrastructure roadmap and coordinate the
development plans
Genetic map of Europe supports the collaboration