Here you will find all of the preliminary reading, presentations and other resources from the 2011 Learning Programme. Please note that some of the presentations have been slightly redacted in order to protect confidential material. This material is provided to delegates for their personal use; please do not copy or forward these presentations without crediting the original author.

Preliminary Reading

• OECD Global Science Forum Report on Establishing Large International Research Infrastructures: Issues and Options
• ESFRI Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures Roadmap 2010
• Cost control and management issues of global research infrastructures
• e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Blue Paper 2010
• Strategy for a European Data Infrastructure (White Paper)
• Riding the Wave: How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data
• Inspiring Excellence: Research Infrastructures and the European 2020 Strategy (ESFRI)
• Risk-Sharing Finance Facility
• Technopolis Group Report: The role and added value of large-scale research facilities
• e-PP-CC Working Group Legal Issues of Distributed Research Infrastructures

Amsterdam

Sessions

Session 1: Making the Case

• Workshop agenda
• Characteristics and implications of RIs (Wouter Los)
• Making the case and setting the scene (Carlo Rizzuto)
• The impacts and added value of research infrastructures (Florian Gliksohn)

Session 2: Financing

• Session agenda
• An example of public-private partnership -- MaxLab IV (Lars Lavesson)
• Cost estimation (Karl Witte)
• Financing e-infrastructures (Kimmo Koski)
• Negotiating and managing in-kind contributions (Karl Witte)
• Opportunities and challenges in the use of structural funds (Florian Gliksohn)
• Financial life-cycle of RIs (Florian Gliksohn)

Session 3: Legal and Governance issues

• Legal issues of distributed RIs (Wouter Los)
• Who guards the guards? (Tim Wess)

Case Studies

• EuroMuon
• Infarct
• Euroquake

The reports from the Infarct and Euroquake teams are also available:

• Euroquake
• Infarct

Summary

Tour presentations

• Axel Berg: PRACE presentation
• Axel Berg: SARA presentation

Other resources

• Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis of Investment Projects

 

Trieste

Sessions

• Introductory presentation by John Wood

Session 4: Project Management and Planning

• Introduction and agenda by Florian Gliksohn
• Scope and time management by Florian Gliksohn
• Presentation by Michel van der Rest
• Presentation by Wolfgang Meissner

Session 5: The Human Question

• Presentation by Michel van der Rest
• Presentation by Peter Wittenburg
• HR Scenario 1
• HR Scenario 2

Session 6: Managing an Established Facility

• Access in virtual RIs by Wouter Los
• CSC by Kimmo Koski
• Five scenarios by Kimmo Koski
• Technology Transfer by Marco Marazzi
• EMBL by Anna-Lynn Wegener
• Presentation by Andrea Crivelli
• Presentation by Allan Weeks