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Authors: APRE (IT) and DST (ZA) Contibutors: MINECO (ES) and MISIS (RU) Project coordinator: EKT (GR) Graphic designer: APRE (IT) Copyright: Eurorisnet+ The research leading to these results has been funded by DG INFSO, under the Grant Agreement 283663 (Research Infrastructures Programme, FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2). Report on global Research Infrastructures: a first mapping exercise Contents INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. 4 AFRICA ......................................................................................................................................... 8 ALGERIA ..................................................................................................................................... 19 EGYPT ........................................................................................................................................ 23 TUNISIA ...................................................................................................................................... 25 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ....................................................................................................... 27 CANADA ..................................................................................................................................... 40 CHINA ........................................................................................................................................ 47 WEST BALKANS ............................................................................................................................ 58 JAPAN ...................................................................................................................................... 116 JORDAN .................................................................................................................................... 124 KOREA ..................................................................................................................................... 126 LATIN AMERICA .......................................................................................................................... 128 ARGENTINA ............................................................................................................................... 138 BOLIVIA .................................................................................................................................... 153 BRAZIL ..................................................................................................................................... 155 CLOMBIA .................................................................................................................................. 163 COSTA RICA .............................................................................................................................. 167 CUBA ....................................................................................................................................... 170 CHILE ....................................................................................................................................... 174 ECUADOR ................................................................................................................................. 183 GUATEMALA ............................................................................................................................. 186 HONDURAS ............................................................................................................................... 188 MEXICO ................................................................................................................................... 190 PERÙ ....................................................................................................................................... 196 PUERTO RICO ............................................................................................................................ 201 URUGUAY ................................................................................................................................. 203 VENEZUELA ............................................................................................................................... 206 RUSSIA ..................................................................................................................................... 208 USA ........................................................................................................................................ 215 3 Report on global Research Infrastructures: a first mapping exercise Introduction Developing global research infrastructures and reinforcing cooperation of EU research infrastructures at international level are parts of the key commitments of the Innovation Union1. The Research Infrastructures play a relevant role in strengthening scientific innovation and its advantage is given by the possibility to gather many different stakeholders, from different countries. The two features that can make a Research Infrastructure a good resource for innovation are on one hand the high‐quality and on the other hand the accessibility of them. In order to reach a better quality and a greater accessibility, the European Commission gives increasingly importance to a global to the societal challenges that both European and no‐European countries are meeting and indeed they are at the core of the European strategy for implementing and consolidating this collaboration at worldwide level. This awareness clearly raising from the G8 meeting held in London2 in June 2013 during which the G8 Science Ministers discussed the importance cooperation among countries for research and innovation. The Research Infrastructures represent a befitting answer of Global Research Infrastructures, trying to identify international efforts and new opportunities for a global collaboration. During the meeting it was presented the evaluation work implemented by a Group of Senior Officials3 (GSO) which highlighted the need of a common framework. In order to reach this framework, the GSO identified common principles and developed a questionnaire for Global RI projects, giving information on their status and how they address the framework principles. The GSO developed a framework that would increase awareness, avoid duplication, increase scientific productivity and increase coordination of Global Research Infrastructures (GRI) considerations. It was very significant the wideness given to the concept of Research Infrastructures, gathering both physical, such as particle accelerators, and distributed RI, such as the European ELIXIR biological database, cohort studies or digitized text. Organizations such as the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have moved toward developing ‘intellectual infrastructure’ including coordination of clinical populations and training activities. However, care should be taken to ensure that the concept of ‘infrastructure’ does not become too broad. 1 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=international_level 2 https://www.gov.uk/government/topical‐events/g8‐2013 3 The Carnegie Group of G8 + 05 Science Advisers recognised the potential for cooperation on issues related to global research infrastructures. They established a Group of Senior Officials (GSO) on Global Research Infrastructures to reach a common understanding on matters such as governance, funding and management of large‐scale research infrastructures. The European Commission is member of the GSO group. http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=international_level 4 Report on global Research Infrastructures: a first mapping exercise ACTIONS The G8 Science Ministers adopted the Framework for GRIs decided by the GSO as the principles and reference terms under which G8 countries will consider cooperation on GRIs, and will encourage other nations to adopt them. The G8 Science Ministers approved a new mandate for the GSO to enable it to fulfill the areas of its original mandate that have not yet been addressed including: Promoting the Framework and continuing to exchange information on potential future research infrastructure that may present opportunities for international collaboration, noting especially the needs of the Global Challenges; Sharing information on national research infrastructure priorities and prioritization processes; identifying areas of potential benefit that could be achieved through sharing of best practices; Creating a representative list of GRIs open to global cooperation of interest to new partners. The GSO is invited to report to the G8 Science Ministers in 2015. The Russian Government has offered to host the 2014 GSO meeting. The EuroRIsnet+ project as network of RI National Contact Point (NCPs) aims to collect information on Research Infrastructures in the world, on policies, initiatives and studies related to the promotion of international research infrastructure partnerships, which could assist NCPs in the execution of their responsibilities. This report addresses the research infrastructure portfolio in an integrated manner, i.e. including both a focus on research infrastructures and e‐infrastructures. THE REPORT4 The following report on global Research Infrastructures has been realised with the collaboration of different RI NCPs. In particular, the in‐depth analysis of different global areas is the result