National Research Council of Italy. Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis

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1 National Research Council of Italy Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis Involvement of the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis in the Framework Programme of the European Union: project completed and in progress Technical report on CNR-IMAA by Dr. Monica Proto November 2011

2 Index Introduction... 3 Participation of CNR-IMAA in the European Framework Programmes Collaborative projects under the Programme Coordination and support actions Integrating activities implemented as Coordination Actions Integrated projects Combination of Collaborative Projects and Coordination and Support Actions for Integrating Activities Large Scale Integrated project Network of Excellence Small or medium-scale focused research project Specific Support Action Specific Targeted Research Projects STREP

3 Introduction The National Research Council of Italy (CNR) is strongly involved in several projects of the European Framework Programme. In a recent study carried out by the European Commission on the evaluation of the Programme (FP7) 1, CNR is the only Italian institution in the list of the organisations that have obtained the largest amounts of funding, positioning itself at the 12 th place out of 50 organizations, and at the 3 rd place in terms of participation. Up to now, the CNR has already drawn up 150 agreements with the European Commission, and in 25% of these the CNR plays the role of Coordinator 2. Most of the FP7 funded projects fall in the Cooperation area, specifically in Information Communication Technologies, then in Nanosciences projects and finally Environment projects, with a total equivalent value of about 80 millions of Euros. In this framework, the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy has been actively contributing to the increase and positioning of the participation of the National Research Council of Italy in the European Framework Programmes. This report is focused on the description of the main projects coordinated by CNR- IMAA or involving it as a partner, funded within the European Framework Programme in the last seven years, from 2004 until November A brief description of each project is provided, specifying the type of funding scheme, the role of the institute, uration, the actual status of the project, the project cost, content and website address. Participation of CNR-IMAA in the European Framework Programmes Notwithstanding CNR-IMAA is a young Institute, since it was constituted in 2002, IMAA has been involved in European research programmes as a partner and in most of the cases as coordinator of research streams in the Framework Programmes and in other International Research Programmes. The IMAA research activities have mainly been focused on different themes such as Aerospace, Energy, Environment, ICT and other Programmes both in the Sixth and Programmes. Up to now there are n.20 projects approved under the European Framework Programmes, 13 of these under the Seventh FP and 7 under the Sixth FP. 1 Source: Interim Evaluation of the Programme, Final Report of the Expert Group, 12 November Source: 3

4 In Figure 1 projects are grouped by type of funding scheme. Collaborative project Large scale Integrated Project Coordination and support actions Integrated activities implemented as Coordination Actions Integrated Project Network of Excellence Small or medium scale focused research project Specific Support Action CP-CSA STREP Figure 1 Projects of CNR-IMAA in European Programmes grouped by funding scheme. The list of the projects is reported in the following table: N. FP Type of Funding Scheme Role of CNR- IMAA 1 DORIS FP7 Collaborative Project Coordinator 2 G-MOSAIC FP7 Collaborative Project 3 SAFER FP7 Collaborative Project 4 ISTIMES FP7 Collaborative Project Coordinator through TeRN Consortium 5 REACCESS FP7 Collaborative Project Completed 6 UNCERTWEB FP7 Collaborative Project 7 GEOVIQUA FP7 Collaborative Project 8 DORIS-net FP7 Collaborative Project through the participation to TERN Consortium 9 GIGAS FP7 Coordination and Support Actions Completed 10 EGIDA FP7 Coordination and Scientific Support Actions coordination Integrated Activities Completed 11 EARLINET-ASOS FP6 implemented as Coordinator Coordination Actions 12 GEOMON FP6 Integrated Project Completed Completed Coordinator of 13 EURORISK/PREVIEW FP6 Integrated Project the WP Landslide monitoring. 14 NEEDS FP6 Integrated Project Completed Coordinator of 4

5 15 ACTRIS FP7 16 EUROGEOSS FP7 17 GMOSS FP6 18 MODELPROBE FP7 19 Cyclops FP6 Combination of collaborative projects and coordination and support actions for Integrating Activities - CP-CSA Large scale Integrated Project Network of Excellence Small or medium scale focused research project Specific Support Action Completed Completed the Research Stream RS2a Modelling internalisation strategies including scenario building Coordinator Associated partner 20 GRIDCC FP6 STREP Completed The equivalent value of all FP7 projects in which CNR-IMAA is involved is about 165,8 million euro, 3 million euro of them are addressed to CNR-IMAA. It is important to point out that the small and medium enterprises, located in Basilicata region and working jointly with CNR-IMAA, have benefited of about 1,8 million of Euros, thanks to the synergic collaboration that the CNR-IMAA has established with them. In particular the projects ISTIMES, DORIS and MODELPROBE have led to a positive transfer of know-how and technologies between the CNR-IMAA and the SMEs, testified by the high-level products and results. In the frame of the technology transfer, CNR-IMAA is strongly involved in the promotion and dissemination of the Framework Programme initiatives through the involvement in APRE Agency for the Promotion of the European Research ( APRE has different information points distributed in each region of Italy and the Basilicata one is located at Research Area of CNR, at TeRN Consortium. The close and strong collaboration between CNR-IMAA and TeRN has led to different positive initiatives and a larger involvement of researchers and entrepreneur in FP research projects. 5

6 1. Collaborative projects under the Programme THEME 9: Space Space Call 2 FP7-SPACE Collaborative project Ground Deformations Risk Scenarios: an Advanced Assessment Service DORIS Coordinator together with IRPI and IREA Vincenzo Lapenna Duration 36 months ( ) 4.57 million euro Detection, mapping, monitoring and forecasting of ground deformations at different temporal and spatial scales and in various physiographic and environmental settings. DORIS integrates traditional and innovative Earth Observation (EO) and ground based (non-eo) data and technologies both to improve the understanding of the phenomena that result in ground deformations, including mass movements and land subsidence, and foster the ability of Civil Defence authorities to manage the risks posed by ground deformations. SPA Developing pre-operational GMES pilot services in new application fields Collaborative project GMES services for Management of Operations, Situation Awareness and Intelligence for regional Crises G-MOSAIC Stefano Nativi Duration 36 months ( ) million euro 6

7 Project aims: to provide the European Union with intelligence data that can be applied to early warning and crisis prevention as well as crisis management and rapid interventions in hot spots around the world. It aims both at identifying and developing products, methodologies and pilot services for the provision of geospatial information in support to EU external relations policies and contributing to define and demonstrate the sustainability of GMES global security services. SPA Development of upgraded capabilities for existing GMES Fast-Track Services and related (pre)operational services Collaborative project Services and Applications For Emergency Response SAFER Stefano Nativi Duration 36 months ( ) million euro Project aims: 1) to implement preoperational versions of the Emergency Response Core Service; 2) to reinforce European capacity to manage emergency situations such as fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, humanitarian crisis. 3) to upgrade of the core service and the validation of its performance with 2 priorities: a) a short term improvement of response when crisis occurs, with the rapid mapping capacity after disastrous events, including the relevant preparatory services (reference maps); b) an extension to core service components before and after the crisis. ueil.php?lang=en ICT-SEC Optimised situational awareness through intelligent surveillance of interconnected transport and energy infrastructures Collaborative project Integrated System for Transport Infrastructures surveillance 7

8 and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing ISTIMES Third Party of TeRN Consortium (Coordinator) Vincenzo Cuomo Duration 36 months ( ) 4.37 million euro Project aims: to design, assess and promote an ICT-based system, exploiting distributed and local sensors for nondestructive electromagnetic monitoring in order to make the critical transport infrastructures more reliable and safe. This has the overall aim of developing a high situation awareness in order to provide real time and detailed information and images of the infrastructure status so as to improve decision support for emergency and disasters stakeholders. ENERGY Energy security of supply Collaborative project Risk of energy availability: common corridors for Europe supply security REACCESS Carmelina Cosmi Completed Duration 36 months ( ) 4.09 million euro The implementation of this Project aims at: analysing present policies concerning EU MS and Community targets for energy import; evaluating technical, economical and environmental characteristics of present and future energy corridors within Europe and among Europe and the supplying regions of the World, taking into account the different typology of infrastructures and technologies (railways, pipelines, cables, terminals, ships and other carriers,..), the flows and the distances involved for oil, natural gas, coal, electricity, uranium, biomass and hydrogen. ICT for Environmental services and Climate Change adaptation Projects 8

9 Collaborative Project The Uncertainty Enabled Model Web Uncertweb Stefano Nativi Duration 36 months ( ) 3.71 million euro UncertWeb will create the Uncertainty enabled Model Web by facilitating an interoperability between data and models with quantified uncertainty, built on existing open, international standards. In particular UncertWeb will develop encoding standards, service interface profiles, discovery and chaining mechanisms and open source implementations, and generic tools to realize a 'model Web' that takes uncertainty in data and models fully into account. The developments in UncertWeb will be validated by scenarios from four environmental application domains: biodiversity and habitat change, land use and policy modelling, local air quality forecasting, and individual activity in environment. In each application domain prototype service chains will be built using UncertWeb technology. To further evaluate the discovery and chaining mechanisms UncertWeb will integrate the air quality and activity modelling to produce novel service chains that quantify individual exposure and the effects of individual's activity choices on emissions with quantified uncertainty. The project will deliver encoding standards, interface profiles and open source software implementations to allow continued development of the Uncertainty enabled model Web beyond the funding. ENV Integrating new data visualisation approaches of earth Systems into GEOSS development Collaborative project QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems GEOVIQUA 9

10 Stefano Nativi Duration 36 months ( ) 4.02 million euro The GEOSS Common Infrastructure provides clearinghouses and portals that facilitate discovery and visualisation of data in an integrated way. GEOVIQUA will extend the GEOSS infrastructure by adding well-defined data quality indicators and quality-enabled search and visualisation tools. These GEOVIQUA components will be implemented so as to be accessed on the basis of existing geo-portal standards and in the mass market "Google-like" map tools and other 3D viewers, as well as on mobile devices. The design and development of GEOVIQUA components will be undertaken in collaboration with the relevant GEO committees, the Open Geospatial Consortium Architecture Implementation Pilots and other relevant standards committees. Not available THEME 9: Space Space Call 2 FP7-SPACE SPA Fostering downstream activities and links with regions Coordination and support action Downstream Observatory organized by Regions active in Space network DORIS-net through the participation to TERN Consortium Nicola Pergola Duration 24 months ( ) Total Budget 1.12 million euro 10

11 DORIS_Net suggests a Downstream Observatory organised by Regions which are all members of NEREUS (Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies) and potentially users of GMES downstream services. The Downstream Observatory will facilitate links between both regional and European level GMES stakeholders. The regional users and service providers will be supported by dedicated interfaces as well as a network of Regional GMES Contact Offices (RCOs) to create the European GMES Downstream Service Platform - the heart of DORIS_Net. 11

12 2. Coordination and support actions ICT ICT for environmental management and energy efficiency Coordination and support actions GEOSS Inspire and GMES an action in support GIGAS Stefano Nativi COMPLETED Duration 24 months ( ) 3.08 million euro The GEOSS INSPIRE and GMES an Action in Support (GIGAS) promotes the coherent and interoperable development of GMES, INSPIRE and GEOSS initiatives through their concerted adoption of standards, protocols and open architectures. Given the complexity and dynamics of each initiative and the large number of stakeholders involved, the key added value of GIGAS is that of bringing together the leading organisations which are able to make a difference and achieve a truly synergistic convergence of the initiatives. ENV Supporting the integration of European and international R&D programmes in GEO Coordination and support actions (Coordinating) Coordinating Earth and Environmental cross-disciplinary projects to promote GEOSS EGIDA CNR-DTA participates as coordinator. Main contributions are from CNR-IMAA (scientific coordination) and CNR-IIA Stefano Nativi Duration 24 months ( ) 1.53 million euro 12

13 EGIDA will prepare a sustainable process promoting coordination of activities carried out by: the GEO Science & Technology (S&T) Committee; S&T national and European initiatives; and other S&T Communities. This will be done by supporting broader implementation and effectiveness of the GEOSS S&T Roadmap and the GEOSS mission through coherent and interoperable networking of National and European projects, and international initiatives. EGIDA will deliver evaluation processes, tests and assessment indexes, expertise databases, a GEO Label concept, surveys, and other instruments that will link relevant European S&T communities to GEOSS and ensure it is built using state-ofthe-art science and technology. Through co-ordination with the GEOSS S&T Committee (five co-chairs are involved in EGIDA), these deliverables will contribute strongly to the GEO S&T Roadmap implementation. Not available 13

14 3. Integrating activities implemented as Coordination Actions Six Framework Programme (FP6) FP6 Specific Programme: Structuring the European Research Area Specific Programme - Research Infrastructures Action INFRASTR-2.2 Integrating activities including networking activities only Integrating activities implemented as Coordination Actions European Aerosol Research LIdar NETwork Advanced Sustainable Observation System EARLINET-ASOS Coordinator Gelsomina Pappalardo Completed Duration 60 months ( ) 2.76 million euro Project aim: to contribute to the improvement of continuing observations and methodological developments that are urgently needed to provide the multi-year continental scale data set necessary to assess the impact of aerosols on the European and global environment and to support future satellite missions. 14

15 4. Integrated projects Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) Priority 6: Sustainable Development, global change and ecosystems SUSTDEV-3 Global change and ecosystems Integrated project Global Earth Observation and Monitoring GEOMON Gelsomina Pappalardo Completed Duration 51 months ( ) 9.92 million euro Project aim: to sustain and analyze European ground-based observations of atmospheric composition, complementary with satellite measurements, in order to quantify and understand the ongoing changes. GEOMON is a first step to build a future integrated pan-european Atmospheric Observing System dealing with systematic observations of long-lived greenhouse gases, reactive gases, aerosols, and stratospheric ozone. Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) Priority 4 Aeronautics and Space AERO c Risk Management Integrated project EURORISK/PREVIEW Prevention, Information and Early Warning pre-operational services to support the management of risks Coordinator of the WP Landslide monitoring. Vincenzo Lapenna Completed Duration 45 months ( ) million euro 15

16 Project aim: to develop, at the European scale, new or enhanced information services for risk the management in support of Civil Protection Units and local or regional authorities, making the best use of the most advanced research and technology outcomes in Earth Observation. Services have been validated under pre-operational conditions Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) Priority 6.1: Sustainable Energy Systems and, more specifically Sub-priority : Socio-economic tools and concepts for energy strategy Integrated project New Energy Externalities Developments for Sustainability NEEDS Coordinator of the Research Stream RS2a Modelling internalisation strategies including scenario building Carmelina Cosmi Completed Duration 54 months ( ) 11.7 million euro Project aims: to evaluate the full costs and benefits (i.e. direct + external) of energy policies and future energy systems, both for single countries and the enlarged EU as a whole. Major advancements have been achieved in the three main areas of: -Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of energy technologies -monetary valuation of externalities from energy production, transport, conversion and use -integration of LCA and externalities information into policy formulation and scenario building. 16

17 5. Combination of Collaborative Projects and Coordination and Support Actions for Integrating Activities FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES INFRA : Research Infrastructures for Atmospheric Research Combination of Collaborative Projects and Coordination and Support Actions for Integrating Activities Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infrastructure Network ACTRIS Coordinator Gelsomina Pappalardo Duration 48 months ( ) million euro Integrating the key ground-based facilities for a long-term observation of aerosols, cloud-aerosol interactions, and trace gases in Europe (if more than one, indicate their order of importance to the project) not available yet 17

18 6. Large Scale Integrated project ENV : European environment Earth observation system supporting INSPIRE and compatible with GEOSS Large Scale Integrated project Global Earth Observation System of Systems EUROGEOSS Stefano Nativi Duration 36 months ( ) 7.91 million euro The project builds an initial operating capacity for a European Environment Earth Observation System in the three strategic areas of Drought, Forestry and Biodiversity. It then undertakes the research necessary to develop this further into an advanced operating capacity that provides access not just to data but also to analytical models made understandable and useable by scientists from different disciplinary domains. 18

19 7. Network of Excellence Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) AERO-2 Space Network of Excellence GLOBAL MONITORING FOR SECURITY AND STABILITY GMOSS Associate partner Nicola Pergola completed Duration 48 months ( ) 6 million euro Project aim: to integrate European civil security research so as to acquire and nourish the autonomous knowledge and expertise base needs and maintain an effective capacity for global monitoring by using satellite earth observation techniques. 19

20 8. Small or medium-scale focused research project ENV Development of technologies and tools for soil contamination assessment and site characterization, towards sustainable remediation Small or medium-scale focused research project Model driven soil probing, site assessment and evaluation MODELPROBE Vincenzo Lapenna Duration 46 months ( ) 4.61 million euro Conventional techniques for site characterization are time consuming, cost intensive, and do not support any decision making. Therefore, new techniques for step-by-step site characterization strategy with smart feed back loops are necessary. These will be able to support a future soil framework directive. Advanced geophysical site characterization techniques combined with new types of vegetation analysis will be developed. 20

21 9. Specific Support Action Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) INFRASTR-3 Communication network development in conjunction with them. Priority 2 (Inform. Soc. Technol.) to establish a highcapacity & high-speed commun. netw. for all researchers in Europe (GEANT) & specific high performance Grids & test beds (GRIDs) Specific Support Action Cyber-Infrastructure for civil protection operative procedures CYCLOPS Stefano Nativi completed Duration 24 months ( ) euro Project aim: to bridge the gap between Grid and GMES communities making Civil Protection people aware of the services provided by Grid infrastructures, and, at the same time, letting Grid researcher be aware of Civil Protection specific requirements and service enhancement needs. 21

22 10. Specific Targeted Research Projects STREP Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) IST Research Networking Test beds Specific Targeted Research Projects STREP Grid enabled Remote Instrumentation with Distributed Control and Computation GRIDCC Valerio Tramutoli completed Duration 36 months ( ) 5.29 million euro Project aims: to extend the state of the art of computing grid technologies by introducing the handling of real-time constraints and an interactive response to the existing Grid middleware; to build a geographically distributed system that is able to remotely control and monitor complex instrumentation, ranging over a large number of diverse environments. A set of geophysical sensors (electrical) for mapping water percolation phenomena in landslide area has been developed and installed. 22