CREMLIN WP2 Workshop on “Funding and Joint Research Programmes at the Megascience Facilities”

15 Jun 2017, 09:30 → 16 Jun 2017, 14:00 Europe/Berlin

ESRF

This CREMLIN workshop is devoted to the topic of funding and joint research programmes with a focus on European-Russian collaboration in the context of the Megascience facilities. It shall address issues on coordinated funding and research programmes between the EU or individual member states (MS) and the Russian Federation around new Megascience facilities.

Agenda Workshop_Funding_13.06.pdf

List of participants participants_list.pdf

Workshop Objectives Workshop_WP2_Funding_Objectives.pdf

Thursday, 15 June

visit of facilities at ILL and at ESRF

09:30 group picture (ESRF visitors centre)

09:30-12:00 visit of facilities at ILL and at ESRF
Organised in 2 parallel groups; all participants from the two groups will meet at ESRF visitors
centre; each tour will take around 60 minutes; meeting point for the group exchange will be
decided before the departure of both groups at 09:00

12:00 light lunch (EPN Campus guest house breakfast room)

CB3 Meeting (closed session; in ESRF Auditorium)

slides Reichert_Welcome_Workshop_Funding.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

Opening & Welcome (ESRF Auditorium)

16:00-16:15 Welcome
Harald Reichert, ESRF Director of Research: Physical sciences

16:15-16:30 Goals of the workshop
Frank Lehner, DESY; Mikhail Popov, NRC KI

16:30-17:00 Key note
Carlo Rizzuto, ERF-aisbl Chairman; ELI-DC Director-General

Introduction

Introduction into the general theme, into good practice and into the major challenges
· EU framework programmes, transnational access, …
Jean Moulin, Belgian Science Policy Office Honorary General Advisor
· Questions and answers

slides Moulin_Workshop_Funding.pdf

Session I: National funding schemes & programmes: Best practice examples

Chairperson: Martin Sandhop, DESY
· The impact of the German case of “Collaborative research” (“Verbundförderung”)
Frank Lehner, DESY
· Experiences and best practice of research infrastructures in ongoing European projects
Ute Krell, DESY
· The Scandinavian case: Nordic Neutron Science Program; co-funding between NordForsk
and the Nordic Countries
Fredrik Melander, Secretariat for the ESS, Danish Agency for Research and Innovation
· Successful schemes of Russian funding organizations
Vladimir Kvardakov, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, deputy chairman

slides

• Krell_Workshop_Funding.pdf
• Kvardakov_Workshop_Funding.pdf
• Lehner_Workshop_Funding.pdf
• Melander_Workshop_Funding.pdf

19:30 Joint Workshop Dinner (Les jardins de Sainte Cécile, 18 rue de l'Alma, 38000 Grenoble)

Friday, 16 June

Session II: Bilateral and international funding schemes & programmes: Best practice examples in EU-Russian collaboration

Chairperson: Vladimir Kravchuk, NRC KI
· Experiences from ERA.NET RUS – Coordinating joint research programmes between EU
members and Russia
Yaroslav Sorokotyaga, RFBR
· Collaboration and Russian-German Project Funding within the Ioffe-Röntgen-Institute IRI
Mikhail Popov, NRC KI
· Collaborative Research Group (CRG) beamlines and instruments at the ILL
Helmut Schober, ILL
· Collaborative Research Group (CRG) beamlines and instruments at the ESRF
Harald Reichert, ESRF

slides

• Popov_Workshop_Funding.pdf
• Reichert_Welcome_Workshop_Funding.pdf
• Schober_Workshop_Funding.pdf
• Sorokotyaga_Workshop_Funding.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

Session III: Round Table

11:00-13:00 Session III: Round Table
Chairperson: Martin Sandhop & Vladimir Kravchuk
11:00-12:00 General Discussion in Plenary
12:00-13:00 Summarizing & Wrapping up: Recommendations for the communities and funding
organisations; follow-up of the results

13:00 light lunch (Guest room/”Campus restaurant” in the Common building, first door right at the entrance hall)