Speech by Ms Ana Arana Antelo about the ELI project
On 7 – 9 June 2011 the WIRE (Week of Innovative Regions in Europe 2011) conference was held in Debrecen in Hungary as a part of Hungarian European Council presidency event. Ms. Ana Arana Antelo, Deputy Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, denoted the ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure) project in her conference speech as a model example of funding from the EU Structural Funds: „Recent good examples of the use of Structural Funds for Research Infrastructures include the Czech Republic, where the national Operational Programme for “Research and Development for Innovation” has allocated almost 70% of the total funding to priorities such as European Centres of Excellence and Regional R&D centres. New research infrastructures financed from these resources are closely connected to the ESFRI Roadmap projects, notably the massive Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project, the first large scale infrastructure based in the eastern part of the EU, investing over 700 million Euro in laser science and its applications.“
