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#REDIRECT [[EU2020]]
|+ '''DRAFT - INNOVATION UNION LIST OF ACTIONS''' 
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! scope="col" width="280" | Action
! scope="col" | What is the problem?
! scope="col" | What can EGI do?
! scope="col" width="280" | EGI Action<sup>1</sup>
! scope="col" | Level<sup>2</sup>
! scope="col" | Relevance<sup>3</sup>
! scope="col" | Deadline
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| Complete the European Research Area
| It is clear that the size, performance, efficiency and integration of the EU's research system must increase rapidly if it is to be commensurate with EU aspirations for global S&T leadership and excellence and knowledge-based competitiveness as well as to satisfy the socio-economic imperatives of its citizens, as set out in the Europe 2020 strategy. Completion of ERA is central to this strategy for economic reform, and thus to its Innovation Union flagship. In 2012 the Commission will propose an ERA Framework and supporting measures to remove obstacles to mobility and cross-border co-operation, aiming for them to be in force by end 2014. In implementation pf this action point 3 is related to Research Infrastructures - Develop and maintain world-class research infrastructures, including e-infrastructures, and ensure access to them
The challenges encountered stem from the complex nature inherent to the development of new major partnerships projects between several Member States, and a sub-optimal use of existing research infrastructures in Europe, caused inter alia by the absence of:
*national priority setting and funding to implement ESFRI roadmap projects (in combination with the involvement of many decision-makers throughout the European Union);
*a clear ESFRI mandate to help implementing the projects listed in the ESFRI roadmap;
*a regular European mapping of existing facilities and national or regional projects;
*sufficient funding and harmonized policies for optimum cross-border access to nationally operated infrastructures;
*adequate governance at EU level for  the efficient implementation of RI projects, including in the context of global cooperation
| EGI can contribute to the fulfillment of this action since the consolidation and unification of the European Research Area can be achieved through utilisation of the EGI, especially in regard to efforts in avoiding costly overlaps and unnecessary duplication in national research. Furthermore, in September 2011 EC will  launch dedicated broad consultation on ERA Framework. This would be great opportunity foir EGI to participate in the consultation. One of the actions that can direclty contribute to consolidation of ERA is strenthening the  relathinship between e-Infrastructures and ESFRI projects that will result in increased mutual benefits. Gaining momentum and strong element of continuity in collaboration between EGI and ESFRI projects will lead to stronger links between e-Infrastructures and emerging Virtual Research Communities (VRCs).
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#TRACK AND INFORM (PDT and UCST)
#PROVIDE FEEDBACK TO EC ON ERA FRAMEWORK(UCST)
| EC
| '''Relevant'''
| 31/12/2014
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| Member States together with the Commission to completed or launched the construction of 60% of the priority European research infrastructures currently identified by the ESFRI.
| There are several challenges linked to the realisation of identified the ESFRI projects:
*the high total investment costs (~20 B€) and the large number of projects (~50) that are being discussed at the same time;
*the difficulty of countries to overcome a purely national perspective in their decision to participate and invest and make long term commitment to European projects;
*the complexity of realising the projects in partnerships between several countries and with variable geometry;
*the inherent technical complexity of the projects and the significant work which still need to be completed to bring the projects to the technical, organisational, legal and financial maturity level where decisions on their funding can be taken;
*the difficulty of gathering sufficient European funding to co-finance the projects and complement national contributions.
| While this action is mainly focused on providing funding and enhancing cooperation between different stakeholders easing the development of synergies between all relevant actors in order to complete the construction of the priority European research infrastructures, EGI should closely follow completion of this action. In the moment and with the research infrastructure mature enough to use our infrastructure establish cooperation for the utilisation of the infrastructure. 
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#TRACK AND INFORM (USCT AND PDT)
#ESTABLISH COOPERATION WITH A MATURE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES(UCST AND PDT)
| MC and EC
| '''Relevant'''
| 31/12/2014
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| Promoting the [http://eit.europa.eu/ European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)] as a model of innovation governance in Europe
| Enhancing the relations and synergies between innovation, research and education – the main drivers of the global knowledge economy - is crucial to increase innovation capacity of the EU.Europe is falling short in filling the innovation gap. There is general agreement that the main weakness faced by the EU in the innovation area lies in its limited capacity to convert knowledge into commercial opportunities.There is consensus in the Union on the need to continue developing conditions conducive to a better exploitation of the commercial potential of innovation and knowledge policies. The EU2020 Strategy has therefore placed innovation, research and education activities at the core of the Innovation Union Flagship.The EIT is contributing to the Innovation Union objectives through integrating the knowledge triangle. Initial evidence suggests there is added value in promoting innovation at Community level by supporting excellence-driven Knowledge and Innovation Communities between all actors involved in the knowledge triangle. By mid-2011, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) should set out a Strategic Innovation Agenda to expand its activities as a showcase for Innovation in Europe. This should map out its long term development within the “Innovation Union”. It should also build on the EIT Foundation being set up in 2010 and on the introduction in 2011 of the "EIT degree" as an internationally recognised label of excellence.
| EGI should explore the opportunity of establishing the cooperation with the EIT, if possible through MoU. Furthermore, EGI should obtain “EIT degree".
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#ESTABLISH COOPERATION WITH EIT THROUGH SIGNING MOU AND OBTAINING "EIT" DEGREE (PDT)
| EC
| Low Relevance
| 31/12/2011
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| Speed up and modernise standard-setting to enable interoperability and foster innovation in fast-moving global markets
| The rapid shortening of innovation cycles and the convergence of technologies across the boundaries of the three European standardisation organisations are a particular challenge. If not able to adapt, the European standardisation system risks becoming irrelevant with companies turning instead to other instruments (as could be seen in the ICT sector) or worse could start to work as a brake on innovation. A dynamic standardisation system is also a pre-condition for the EU to maintain and further reinforce its impact on the setting of standards at global level, where other countries are increasingly seeking to set the rules. Being a first mover on international standardisation gives a competitive advantage that European innovative industries must exploit. In this line it is fundamental to better integrate standardisation within R&D enabling a deeper and faster exploitation of the results whenever possible.
|  The main objective is to update European standardisation legislation and policy to face present and future challenges and to better support innovation.
In the short term the goal is to modernise standard setting (making it faster and more inclusive), to extend the use of standardisation as a policy tool to new areas, to arm the Commission with the tools to anticipate standardisation's needs, to enable further integrate standardisation on EU innovation policies. In a longer term perspective, the initiative should ensure that the standardisation system is able to adapt to the quickly evolving environment and to contribute to Europe’s strategic internal and external objectives (relating, among others, to innovation and technological development. Commission published  [http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/files/standardization/com-2011-311_en.pdf Communication A strategic vision for European standards: Moving forward to enhance and accelerate the sustainable growth of the European economy by 2020] to to boost European competitiveness and promote consumers' interest. This action is related to the action 21 of Digital Agenda (DA) and list of actions for DA. There is an obvious necessity to follow and be up to date with the last developments in the EU interoperability and standardisation field. EGI.eu should strongly communicate to the European Commission that it needs its support in order to expedite interoperability and standardisation efforts for Distributed Computing Infrastructures. It is important to highlight not only the participation but leadership roles that EGEE and EGI and other high-level people have played in various standards groups (especially OGF) and that EGI and EGI.eu will continue to push technical efforts in order to reach these goals.
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#TRACK AND INFORM (PDT)
#ANALYSE LEGISLATION AND POLICIES(PDT)
#COMMUNICATE OUR SUCCESS STORY ABOUT EGI INTEROPERABILITY AND STANDARDISATION EFFORTS ON EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL LEVEL (PDT)
| EC
| '''Relevant'''
| 31/12/2013
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| Facilitating knowledge transfer in the FP
| Effective collaboration and knowledge transfer in research projects remains an issue in some research projects, in particular between universities/public research organisations and industry. Some EU and national level model agreements for research cooperation exist.However, as the common strategic framework will probably have a stronger focus on innovation, a broader set of agreements covering different stages of the innovation chain is needed. A common set of model agreements developed by EU stakeholders, covering the broad range of circumstances under which research collaboration occurs while leaving contractual freedom to partners to agree on the most efficient allocation of IPR ownership and access, would help to engender a common approach across the EU and build certainty and confidence in partners entering into cross-border collaboration. As a starting point the Commission will propose simple and clear rules for participation in the Common Strategic Framework (CSF), including a particular focus on exploitation and the transfer of the projects funded. These rules could also be supported by concise and practical guidance on effective collaborative reseatch and by additional measures to enhance knowledge transfer in EU funded research.The Commission will work with Member States and relevant stakeholders from the research community and knowledge transfer community to assess the application and impact of present model consortium agreements used and build on those to develop further model agreements which can be used at an EU level (including in the CSF).
|  Establishing rules for participation in the next Common Strategic Framework (CSF) Horizon 2020 will be done by December 2011 will have impact on EGI and needs to be closely followed. In addition further development of model consortium agreements can potentially have substantial impact on any future EGI application for funding under Horizon 2020.
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#TRACK AND INFORM (PDT)
| EC
| '''High relevance'''
| 31/12/2011
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|  Spreading the benefits of innovation across the Union - MS to use of existing Structural Funds for research & innovation projects
| The Structural Funds provide substantial investments for research and innovation. Member States have planned to use € 86 billion (25% of their total in the current financing period -2007-2013). From this €65 billion are from the European Regional Development Fund. About two thirds of these resources are still to be spent and they should be used more effectively for innovation and achieving the Europe 2020 objectives. Additionally innovation performance and take-up of funds varies considerably across the EU-27 member countries and the financial and economic crisis puts increased difficulties to absorption and to keep the focus on innovation. Starting in 2010: Member States should considerably improve their use of existing Structural Funds for research & innovation projects, helping people to acquire the necessary skills, improving the performance of national systems and implementing smart specialisation strategies and trans-national projects. This should also apply to the pre-accession funding for EU candidate countries. The Commission stands ready to assist and will use its regional research and cluster initiatives to support this change and establish a "smart specialisation platform" by 2012, including further support for the emergence of world class clusters. Further details are in an accompanying Communication.
| This action is related with the action 55 of Digital Agenda -  Member States to double annual public spending on ICT research and development.  Task for EGI.eu will be to work with NGIs on any application for Structural Funds. This will be done over the following months in order to allow the NGIs to thoroughly investigate the possibility of having this funding source as an integral part of their organisational plans.
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#TRACK AND INFORM (PDT)
 
#APPLY FOR STRUCTURAL FUNDS UNTIL 2013 (NGIs)
 
| MS
| '''High Relevance'''
| 31/12/2013
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| Spreading the benefits of innovation across the Union - Member States preparation of post 2013 Structural Fund programmes with an increased focus on innovation
| Member States should initiate the preparation of post 2013 Structural Fund programmes with an increased focus on innovation and smart specialisation. Future regulations governing the operation of the European Regional Development Fund should further commit substantial financial resources to support innovation initiatives within the regions of the European Union. More effective and synergetic use of public funds (ERDF, FP7, CIP, as well as national and regional funds) are needed to bring smart growth to regions; while the learning processes and cooperation among regions have to be increased.
| This action is related to the previous one and with the action 55 of Digital Agenda -  Member States to double annual public spending on ICT research and development.  Task for EGI.eu will be to work with NGIs on any application for Structural Funds. This will be done over the following months in order to allow the NGIs to thoroughly investigate the possibility of having this funding source as an integral part of their organisational plans.
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#TRACK AND INFORM (PDT)
 
#APPLY FOR POST 2013 STRUCTURAL FUNDS (NGIs)
| MS
| '''High Relevance'''
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| Leveraging policies externally - Towards Global Research Infrastructure 
| The European Union should step up its cooperation on the roll-out of the global research infrastructures. By 2012, agreement should be reached with international partners on the development of research infrastructures which owing to cost and/or complexity, can only be developed on a global scale. A success would be for the EU to reach by 2012 an agreement with international partners on a concerted approach for the development of global research infrastructures. Ideally, this agreement might propose a framework to examine and discuss current and future initiatives for new global Research Infrastructures, to reach a common understanding on issues such as governance, funding and management of large scale research infrastructures, to explore the most appropriate forms for realising such projects and to monitor the implementation of and access to the agreed new facilities. This agreement might also include the provisions for setting-up a Forum where senior policy-makers could meet and explore possible cooperation needs. Its existence could save a lot of time during negotiations and would facilitate the creation of new global research infrastructures.
|  While this action is mainly focused on ensuring an efficient coordination of the EU activities at international level in order to complete the establishment of the Global research infrastructures, EGI should closely follow completion of this action. In the moment and with the Global research infrastructure mature enough to use our infrastructure establish cooperation for the utilisation of the infrastructure. Furthermore, EGI should clearly communicate to EC its success in cooperation at global level. It is important to highlight not only the EGI efforts but leadership roles that  EGI has in coollaboration with other various Resource Infrastructure Providers.
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#TRACK AND INFORM (PDT)
#ESTABLISH COOPERATION WITH A MATURE GLOBAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES(UCST AND PDT)
#COMMUNICATE OUR SUCCESS STORY IN ESTABLISHING GLOBAL E-INFRASTRUCTURE COLLABORATION (PDT)
| EC
| Low Relevance
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1: EGI Action:
*Analyse legislation, policies, guidelines
*Track action and inform EGI Community
*Provide formal feedback
*Communicate our Contribution and/or Success Story
*Establish Cooperation
*Investigate possibility for funding or participation
 
 
2: Level:
 
*The European Commission
*The Member States
 
 
3: Relevance:
 
*High Relevance
*Relevant
*Low Relevance

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