Activities of Adam GIEREK related to 2008/0148(CNS)
Plenary speeches (1)
Community legal framework for a European Research Infrastructure (ERI) (debate)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The term research infrastructure refers to special facilities, resources and related services that are used by the scientific community to conduct - what might be termed research centres -, resources and related services situated in the location in question that are used by geographically mobile scientists from the Community and its worldwide partners to conduct efficient, selected top-level research projects in their respective fields. This definition covers: unique major scientific equipment and the relevant methodology or sets of instruments; knowledge-based resources such as collections, archives or structured scientific information; enabling ICT-based infrastructures such as Grid, computing, software and communications; any other entity of a unique nature essential to achieve excellencea high level of specialisation in research. Such research infrastructures may be "single- sited" or "distributed" (an organisedorganised in the form of networks of resources)individual research bodies established in various locations.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Research infrastructures should help to safeguard scientific excellence and efficiency of Community research and the competitiveness of European research and the Communitsy economy, as based on medium-term to long-term forecasts, through the organisationally improved and efficient support of European research activities. To achieve this theyspecial research infrastructures in the area of research methods should be effectively open to the European research community at large and have the ambition to enhance the temporal and spatial organisation of European scientific capabilities beyond the current state of the art and thereby contribute to the development of the European Research Area.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – point b
Article 3 – point b
(b) it represents an added value in the development of the European Research Area and, by perfecting research methods, a significant improvement in the relevant specialist scientific and technological fields at international level;
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – point d a (new)
Article 3 – point d a (new)
(da) it enhances the efficiency of interdisciplinary research as a result of the concentration of research projects within a given time-span and the implementation of these projects at the same time in various specialised ERIs.
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. An ERI shall have a name containing the words 'European Research Infrastructure' or the abbreviation 'ERI' and a reference to its research area.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – point h – subpoint i a (new)
Article 9 – point h – subpoint i a (new)
(ia) investment policy;