This is the last newsletter for the project, and it will share with all its readers the latest news, an approach to the sustainability plan, and the deliverables already available on the EU-LAC RESINFRA website. Also, this edition gives us a glimpse of the work done at the Final meeting of the project carried out in Madrid, Spain.
All the details are described in our last Newsletter which can be read HERE
The “Deliverable 3.2 “Report on EU LAC RI cooperation models and practices”, specifically aims to collect data from a select group of 22 RIs from the EU and LAC, as well as through interviews with various RI stakeholders, in order to identify models and practices of collaboration through an in-depth analysis of the data obtained. The results of the analysis will then contribute to the design of the Sustainability Plan for the development of the bi-regional RI Roadmap.
Therefore, this report consists of two sections: The first focuses on the benchmarking of 22 RIs in the EU and Latin America, and the Caribbean and their ongoing cooperation activities. This section includes the definition of a set of key performance indicators, an overview of the data collected from the RIs, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data, and resulting recommendations on cooperation models and practices that emerge from the benchmarking.
To download the document please access to REPOSITORY section on this web page.
In this edition of the EULAC ResInfra project newsletter, you will find a summary of the activities carried out during the past 2022, starting with the second EU LAC ResInfra General Assembly, held in July in Montevideo, where important conclusions were obtained about the projections and the future of the project. In addition, there is a full report on the successful final EU LAC ResInfra event that took place as a satellite event of the ICRI 2022 Conference in Brno, Czech Republic.
All the details are described in our last Newsletter which can be read HERE
From the EU-LAC Resinfra project developed the document “Benchmarking report on LAC RI Policies and funding models & European RI relevant showcases”, which aims to identify several LAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) research infrastructures (RIs) that may be considered eligible for the construction of a bi-regional collaboration. This will be carried out through the definition of minimum key requirements these RIs would need to develop in the coming years. The project will build on the prioritization results of the EU-LAC Senior Official Meeting on Science and Technology (SOM) Research Infrastructure (RI) Working Group (WG) and, more specifically, will take as a reference the mapping exercises developed in previous EU-funded projects, such as EULAC Focus project.
The results and information obtained for drafting a Sustainability Plan will be presented to the EU-LAC RI WG for discussion and endorsement. The Plan will include specific actions to support the bi-regional collaboration from a mid-term perspective. The objective is to design specific variable geometry instruments for co-funding RIs of common interest and to design measures that pursue the strengthening of the bi-regional RI cooperation. In parallel, the project aims to show the feasibility of the EU-LAC RI collaboration through existing examples thanks to the development of four pilots in different scientific domains that are linked to some existing Research Infrastructures: Instruct-ERIC, LIFEWATCH-ERIC, E-RIHS, and RICAP, which will help to prove the feasibility of the collaboration and to boost it.
To download the document please access to Repository section on this web page.
The RI WG held its tenth meeting on October 24, 2022. The core of the discussion focused on the outcomes of the ICRI 2022 and EU-LAC ResInfra conferences. In total, 27 delegates and participants from the EU and LAC joined the meeting.
In this meeting, a proposal of next topics for the WG was presented that was based on its previous activities, the EU-CELAC Strategic Roadmap for R&I, and the broader topics presented during the ICRI conference. Following the discussion, it was agreed to use a modified version of this proposal to prepare the work plan for the upcoming years. With this agreement, the proposal will be put into action. Several WG delegates had joined the ICRI and ResInfra conferences and shared their impressions during the WG meeting. Different levels of maturity among the RIs and the need to improve the understanding of RIs in public policy were among the few examples shared. Likewise, the bottom-up activity of the RIs should be complemented with proper top-down coordination and alignment with broader regional priorities.
Another takeaway from the discussion was the difference among the RIs in terms of their work and engagement, ranging from well-established, strong RIs with a lot of connections to less active RIs who do not take part in the process. More open and global RIs could be an answer to this disparity. As for practical suggestions for future conferences, shorter sessions with more time for structured networking among the participants were suggested.
During the meeting, a brief summary of previous discussions was presented, as the mechanism that has established the RI WG, the EU-CELAC JIRI in its latest meeting of senior officials (October 2020) called on the WG to develop its activities taking into account open access to data. RIs, as major generators and managers of research data, are key actors in open access policies and implementation.
In addition, the new Global Service Facility (GSF) was introduced, which will provide assistance to the WG, its meetings, and its activities. This will be a continuation of the assistance provided by the same support team in the past. The GSF will help organise the WG meetings, prepare and facilitate the discussions of the WG (taking into account the selected priority areas), prepare specific actions with RIs themselves (a continuation of the previously used study visit concept), and provide general advisory and secretarial support.
In terms of WG meetings, thanks to this additional assistance, it will now be possible to resume in-person meetings. We will thus move to a hybrid mode, with one physical and one remote meeting per year. The location of physical meetings should alternate between the EU and LAC.
The present workshop is an initiative of the DIGILAB working group of the IperionHS project, Resinfra-EU-LAC , and ANTECIPA ; as part of the SEM-EDS data interoperability pilot.
The main lecturer is Prof. Dr. Nestor Zaluzec from Argonne National Laboratory, Northern Illinois University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Nicholas Ritchie from NIST will also give a talk. And the practical demonstration sessions will be performed at Centro de Microscopia da UFMG .
The official language of the workshop will be English. The scheduled time zone is Brasilia, which is 3 hours ahead of Chicago and 4 hours behind Central Europe (Brussels, Rome, etc.)
For inscription and more information, accessing to the link: https://www.even3.com.br/heritage-science-workshop/
El pasado 18 de Octubre de 2022, en la ciudad de Brno, Republica Checa, EU-LAC Resinfra realizó su Conferencia final generando una instancia de entendimiento, conocimiento y conversación respecto al impacto del trabajo de las infraestructuras de investigación tanto en Europa como en América Latina y el Caribe, y planteando la necesidad de fortalecer a futuro dichas infraestructuras en un contexto de cooperación interregional para avanzar en diferentes desafíos; reconociendo que proyectos como EU-LAC ResInfra son un aporte fundamental para consolidar y trabajar en instancias donde la cooperación bi-regional es el centro.
El evento comenzó con las palabras de bienvenida de la coordinadora del proyecto Sabina Guaylupo junto a Claudia Romano de MEC/AUCI Uruguay. Ellas entregaron un resumen desde los inicios del proyecto destacando que fue necesario desarrollar un entendimiento común sobre el concepto de “infraestructura de investigación” (RI). Mencionando que para llegar a esa definición algunos hitos previos fueron importantes y permitieron la construcción del mismo, siendo trascendentales la cumbre UE-CELAC de Madrid 2010; Área de Conocimiento UE-CELAC. Las Reuniones SOM UE-CELAC, 5ª SOM JIRI en Bruselas, 2016 y la 6º JIRI SOM Bruselas 2017: creación de un GT UE-CELAC sobre RI (intercambio de información sobre las políticas UE-LAC y las prioridades de RI).
Sabina Guaylupo Junto a Claudia Romano en la apertura del Evento Satélite Eu Lac ResInfra}
Posterior a la bienvenida, Dileine Cunha, representante de CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – Brasil), expuso los resultados obtenidos en el “RI in LAC Landscape Analysis” dicho producto derivo en un mapa de infraestructuras de investigación en América Latina; este, representa una importante herramienta que se encuentra en proceso de actualización; agrupando diferentes datos de los centros de investigación esparcidos por Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC) exponiendo las áreas de mayor de especialización de cada institución en aquel mapa.
Desde la experiencia obtenida en el trabajo desarrollado por este equipo (WP2), surgieron tambien, algunas propuestas para el plan de sostenibilidad, entre estas destacan:
Siguiendo con la agenda del evento; los pilotos de EU-LAC ResInfra se hicieron presentes, representados por Rafael Mayo (RICAP), Claudia Alén (INSTRUCT), Maite Irazábal (LifeWatch) y Luca Pezzati junto a Karla Balzuwait (E-RIHS). La conversación fue acompañada y guiada por Kathrin Megerle- DLR (Alemania). Cada uno de los Pilotos expuso su labor durante el desarrollo del proyecto, mostrando los resultados e iniciativas que han guiado su trabajo. Las diferentes áreas abarcadas por los pilotos, han sido fundamentales ampliar la gama de centros de investigación e infraestructuras alcanzadas por ejemplo, el trabajo realizado por INSTRUCT en temáticas como investigación avanzada en campos de la Biología. A si también, RICAP con el apoyo a instituciones de América Latina en la mejora y fortalecimiento de tecnologías en computación y servidores. E-RIHS apoyando las ciencias del patrimonio particularmente en cooperación con diferentes instituciones Brasileñas. Por ultimo Lifewatch, quien tiene un trabajo importante en la conservación de la naturaleza y promueve las infraestructuras de investigación en temáticas como el cambio climático.
De Izquierda a Derecha, Kathrin Megerle, Claudia Alen, Karla Balzuwait, Luca Pezzati, Maite Irazábal, Rafael Mayo, Panel de representantes de Pilotos EU LAC ResInfra.
Uno de los momentos que marco la jornada fue la presentación del Plan de Sostenibilidad del proyecto, a cargo de Claudia Romano, acompañada por, Kathrin Megerle quienes expusieron los principales resultados sobre este plan, obtenidos en la reunión general de Eu La ResInfra en Montevideo, Uruguay durante Julio 2022.
Entre las conclusiones expuestas aparecieron elementos como:
Sumado a lo anterior, se determinó que para un plan de sostenibilidad efectivo es necesario establecer un vínculo con los grupos relacionados Infrastructuras de investigación como GSO-GRI, OCDE-GSF y ESFRI.
Este evento satélite además, contó con invitados de instituciones e infraestructuras de investigación externos quien discutieron sobre el legado e impacto que ha tenido el proyecto EU LAC ResInfra para los centros de investigación tanto en América Latina como en Europa, y la cooperación internacional en un contexto de trabajo conjunto birregional. Quienes se hicieron presente fueron Fernando Amestoy (Director Instituto Polo Tecnológico – Pando y co-chair del Grupo de Trabajo EU CELAC en Infraestructuras de Investigación), Liliana Ávila (MOSBRI Project), Nelson Venegas (Universidad de Antioquia), Guillermo Rangel (Universidad de Copenhague), Claudia Córdoba (CONCYTEC Perú).
Fernando Amestoy (Director Instituto Polo Tecnológico – Pando), Liliana Ávila (MOSBRI Project), Nelson Venegas (Universidad de Antioquia), Guillermo Rangel (Universidad de Copenhague), Claudia Córdoba (CONCYTEC). Representando cada una de sus instituciones e infraestructuras de investigación externas a EU LAC ResInfra.
Para cerrar la jornada, Sabina Guaylupo concluyó con algunas palabras que resumían todo lo acontecido en este evento y apuntando también a entregar un mensaje de continuidad de las iniciativas y el trabajo que Eu Lac ResInfra, ha desarrollado y construido en aras del desarrollo de la investigación en múltiples áreas y la cooperación interregional entre Europa y América Latina.
EU LAC ResInfra project published the agenda of the Satelite Event, which will be held on October 18th, 2022, in the Hotel Passage, Room Large 2, Brno, Czech Republic.
The event will start at 13:45 CET. For more information, check the agenda table below:
El evento tendrá lugar el jueves 18 de octubre de 2022 de 14:00 a 18:00 horas de forma híbrida, con capacidad de asistencia presencial y plazas de participación online.
Para EU-LAC RESINFRA esta será la conferencia final del proyecto, cuyo objetivo será presentar un resumen de las conclusiones y resultados más relevantes del proyecto EU-LAC RESINFRA, así como proporcionar un debate abierto para la futura cooperación EU-LAC en materia de RI.
Además, será presentada una propuesta sobre el Plan de Sostenibilidad de la cooperación EU-LAC en materia de RI proyectada a 5 años. El plan incluirá acciones e instrumentos específicos recomendados para la cofinanciación de las IR de interés común con el fin de maximizar el impacto de la colaboración en materia de IR en la construcción del Espacio Común de Investigación UE-CELAC.
Este encuentro, servirá para generar un debate, el cual entregara aportes relevantes que serán incluidas en la versión final del Plan de Sostenibilidad.
La inscripción para la Conferencia EU-LAC RESINFRA ya está abierta, y puede realizarse en el siguiente LINK.
Sobre la Conferencia ICRI, esta se celebra cada dos años y acoge a unas cincuenta delegaciones para debatir temas relacionados con las infraestructuras de investigación a nivel internacional. Ofreciendo una plataforma para debates estratégicos respecto a la cooperación internacional en materia de infraestructuras de investigación, en la que expertos y diversos actores de sectores debaten sobre los retos y tendencias emergentes en torno a este tema.
El programa del evento, invita a los participantes a ser parte de los debates ofreciendo un espacio para debatir cuestiones vitales y compartir sus visiones, planes y contribuciones a la sociedad. A lo anterior durante este evento se suma la reunión de Foro ESFRI, la reunión ejecutiva y otras actividades de ICRI serán llevadas a cabo entre las presentaciones.
The event will take place on Thursday, 18 October 2022 from 14:00-18:00 am in a hybrid form, with in-person attendance capacity and online participation spots.
The EU-LAC RESINFRA event will be the Final Conference of the project, aiming to present a summary of the most relevant conclusions and outcomes of the EU-LAC RESINFRA project as well as provide an open debate for the future EU-LAC cooperation on RI.
A proposal for a 5-year EU-LAC RIs cooperation Sustainability Plan will be presented. The plan will include recommended specific actions and instruments for co-funding RIs of common interest in order to maximise the impact of the RI collaboration in the construction of the EU-CELAC Common Research Area.
The results of this open discussion will be considered as relevant inputs for the final version of the Sustainability Plan.
Registration for the EU-LAC RESINFRA Conference is already open. To register follow the Link HERE
The ICRI Conference takes place biennially, hosting approximately 50 delegates to discuss topics concerning research infrastructures on an international level. The conference provides a platform for strategic discussions about international cooperation in research infrastructure as experts and stakeholders from various sectors discuss the challenges and emerging trends surrounding the topic.
The event program invites stakeholders to join discussions on topics relevant to research infrastructure. It gives them a space to discuss vital issues and share their visions, plans, and contributions to the society. The ESFRI Forum board, the executive meeting, and other ICRI activities are conducted between the presentations. In addition, EU-LAC RESINFRA will carry out satellite presentations where the main results of the project, as well as the work progression during the project’s development time, and other in-progress activities will be revealed
