EU Projects Office

FP7 - People Work Programmes

• Work Programme 2013
  (Older versions: 2012 | 2011| 2010 | 2009)

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

ACEOLE

Data ACquisition, Electronics and Optoelectronics for LHC Experiments
The ACEOLE project is a mono-site network offering research training in the fields of advanced microelectronics, optoelectronics, networking and real-time data processing technologies in particle detector systems.

Website: https://espace.cern.ch/Marie-Curie-ACEOLE/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Robert Mclaren (PH)

EU funding: 3.5 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/10/2008 - 30/09/2012

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

ARDENT

Advanced Radiation Dosimetry European Network Training
ARDENT provides training for 15 Early-Stage Researchers (ESR) in the field of advanced instrumentation for radiation dosimetry in mixed radiation fields, and for monitoring clinical ion beams used in cancer therapy and the associated stray radiation. Researchers develop and test instrumentation based on advanced technologies for measuring energy distributions and dosimetric quantities in complex radiation fields, as well as in monoenergetic particle beams used in cancer therapy.

Website: http://cern.ch/ardent/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Marco Silari (DGS)

EU funding: 3.92 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/02/2012 - 31/01/2016

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Researchers' Night (NIGHT)

BEST

Being a European Scientist Today
The main idea of the BEST Project is to bring researchers closer to the public at large through the organisation and holding of the 2010 Researchers NIGHT on Friday, 24 September 2010.

Website: http://cern.ch/nuitdeschercheurs/

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

CERN Contact: Paola Catapano (DG)

EU funding: 0.2 M€ over 7 months

Status: Completed
01/04/2010 - 31/10/2010

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

CATHI

Cryogenics, Accelerators and Targets at HIE-ISOLDE
The CATHI project is a mono-site network offering trainig in the application of advanced accelerator technology, beam instrumentation, ultra-high vacuum, cryogenics, radiation protection and advanced material technologies for ISOLDE experiment and its future upgrade (HIE-ISOLDE). 

Website:

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Yacine Kadi  (EN)

EU funding: 4.8 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/11/2010 - 31/10/2014

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

CLOUD-ITN

Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets - Initial Training Network
CLOUD-ITN is a multi-site network investigating various aspects of the interactions of cosmic rays with aerosols and clouds, which bears on the possibility of a "solar indirect" contribution to climate change.

Website: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/english/
research/inter_projects/clouditn/index.html

Coordinator: Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

CERN Contact: Jasper Kirkby (PH)

EU funding: 2.4 M€ over 4 years

Status: 1st phase started
01/08/2008 - 31/07/2012
2nd phase under negotiations

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes (COFUND)

COFUND-CERN

Cofunding of the CERN Fellowship Programme
CERN has been running its Fellowship Programme for about 50 years. This project proposes an extension of the existing Senior Fellowship programme, co-funded by Marie Curie Actions. These fellowships will be branded “CERN–Marie-Curie COFUNDed Fellowships in Particle Physics and Advanced Technologies” (CMCC Fellowships in short) and will receive additional benefits with respect to regular CERN Fellowships.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Rudiger Voss (PH)

EU funding: 5 M€ per phase over 4 years

Status: 1st phase started
01/04/2009 - 31/03/2013
2nd phase started
01/10/2011 - 30/09/2015
3rd phase under negotiation
01/10/2012 - 30/09/2017

Website:  https://ert.cern.ch/web/COFUND.pdf

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

DITANET

novel DIagnostic Techniques for future particle Accelerators: A Marie Curie Initial Training NETwork
DITANET covers the development of advanced beam diagnostic methods for a wide range of existing or future accelerators, both for electrons and ions. It aims to train young researchers within a European network between several major research centers, leading Universities, and partners from industry.

Website: http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/DITANET/

Coordinator: Heidelberg, Germany

CERN Contact: Enrico Bravin (BE)

EU funding: 4 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/06/2008 - 31/05/2012

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

EDUSAFE

Education in advanced VR/AR Safety Systems for Maintenance in Extreme Environments
The Edusafe project is a 4-year ITN with 10 ESR and 2 ER researchers, which focuses on research into the use of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) during planned and emergency maintenance in extreme environments (nuclear installations, space, deep sea etc). The scientific objective of this project is research into advanced VR and AR technologies for a personnel safety system platform, including features, methods and tools.

Website:

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Olga Beltramello (PH)

EU funding: ?? M€ over ?? years

Status: Under negotiations

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

ENTERVISION

Research Training in 3D Digital Imaging for Cancer Radiation Therapy
The project will provide training for 12 Early-Stage Researchers (ESR) and 4 Experienced Researchers (ER) in the field of online 3D Digital Imaging technologies for cancer Hadron radiation therapy. See video.

Website: http://cern.ch/ENTERVISION/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Manjit Dosanjh (DG)

EU funding: 3.8 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/02/2011 - 31/01/2015

FP7 People: Marie Curie - IRSES

EPLANET

European Particle Physics Latin American Network
EPLANET will foster a sustainable collaboration between Europe and Latin America in High Energy Physics and associated technologies. EPLANET will develop internal Latin-American collaboration to reach the critical scientific mass and profit from the educational, technological and industrial impact of HEP.

Website:

Coordinator: Uni Roma, Italy

CERN Contact: Jose Salicio Diez (PH)

EU funding: 9 M€ over 4 years

Status:  Started
01/02/2011 - 31/01/2015

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

ICE-DIP

Intel-CERN European Doctorate Industrial Program
ICE-DIP, the Intel-CERN European Doctorate Industrial Program, offers research training to 5 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The technical goal of this program is to research and develop, through a public-private partnership, unparalleled capabilities in the domain of high throughput, low latency, online data acquisition.

Website:

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Bob Jones (IT)

EU funding: ?? M€ over ?? years

Status: Under negotiations

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

LA³NET

LAsers for Applications at Accelerator facilities NETwork
The exploitation of LAsers for Applications at Accelerator facilities for ion beam generation, acceleration and diagnostics is the goal of LA³NET. Research centers, universities and industry partners from across Europe are developing beyond-state-of-the-art techniques and technologies through a joint inter-sectorial training program for early stage researchers within a unique European partnership.

Website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/la3net/

Coordinator: University of Liverpool, UK

CERN Contact: Valentin Fedosseev (EN); Enrico Bravin (BE)

EU funding: 4.58 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/10/2011 - 30/09/2015

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

MC-PAD

Marie Curie Particle Detectors
This multi-site network comprises nine academic participants, three associated industrial partners and two associated academic partners from nine European countries. It will provide extraordinary training opportunities to young researchers (physicists and engineers) in the field of radiation detectors. The proposed Training Network will play an essential role to form a new generation of excellent detector scientist which is required to conceive, design, build and exploit the next generation of experiments which may come into operation in the years 2012-2020.

Website: http://cern.ch/mc-pad/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Christian Joram (PH)

EU funding: 4.7 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/11/2008 - 31/10/2012

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP)

MeChanICs

Marie Curie linking Industry to CERN
The aim of MeChanICs is to enhance knowledge exchange in the field of precision manufacturing. The mechanisms used for the transfer of knowledge are two-way intersectoral secondments and dissemination workshops.

Website:

Coordinator: UH, Finland

CERN Contact: Germana Riddone (BE)

EU funding: 1 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/09/2010 - 31/08/2014

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

oPAC

Optimization of Particle ACcelerators
oPAC develops intersector and interdisciplinary collaboration to optimise particle accelerators. At CERN projects include: Optics and lattice design studies for the interaction region design of the LHC experimental insertions; LHeC as a future upgrade option of the LHC; simulation studies into halo generation in high brightness hadron beams; studies into an HT-SQUID based beam current monitor; Beam Loss Monitors for use in Cryogenic Environments.

Website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/opac/

Coordinator: University of Liverpool, UK

CERN Contact: Rhodri Jones (BE)

EU funding: 5.94 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/12/2011 - 30/11/2015

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

PARTNER

Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy
The PARTNER network concerns research in ion therapy and the training of professionals in the rapidly emerging field of hadron therapy. This is an interdisciplinary, multinational initiative, which has the primary goal of training researchers to help improve the overall efficiency of ion therapy in cancer treatment, and promote clinical, biological and technical developments at a pan-European level, for the benefit of all European inhabitants. See video 1 and video 2

Website: http://cern.ch/partner/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Manjit Dosanjh (DG)

EU funding: 5.6 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/10/2008 - 30/09/2012

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

PICOSEC

Pico-second Siliconphotomultiplier-Electronics-Crystal research-Marie- Curie-Network
PICOSEC brings together early career researchers and experienced colleagues to develop a new class of ultra-fast photon detectors in PET and HEP. This R&D will be the core activity of a TOF-PET development for clinical applications and would open new perspectives in medical imaging and hence in the quality of patient treatment. Also future accelerators and particle physics experiments count on such detectors in order to cope with the new demands on luminosity pushed to new limits beyond the existing LHC.

Website: http://cern.ch/picosec

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland 

CERN Contact: Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns (PH)

EU funding: 5.7 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/12/2011 - 30/11/2015

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

PURESAFE

Preventing human intervention for increased safety in infrastructures emitting ionizing radiation
This multi-site network has been built to provide excellent training opportunities to early-state researchers in the field of systems engineering (SE) concerning facilities where people are exposed to radiation with a consideration to life-cycle management.

Website: http://www.iha.tut.fi/puresafe/

Coordinator: TUT, Finland

CERN Contact: Pierre Bonnal (DG)

EU funding: 3.9 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/02/2011 - 31/01/2015

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

TALENT

Training for cAreer deveLopment in high-radiation ENvironment Technologies
TALENT offers career development for young researchers in the field of instrumentation for radiation detection. The project focuses on piloting new state-of-the-art technologies on the new precision pixel detector ATLAS Insertable B-Layer detector (IBL) and for future precision tracking detectors. The project will strengthen the co-operation between research and multidisciplinary industry in the fields of advanced radiation sensors, fast and low power consumption read-out and data acquisition electronics, new cooling technologies and ultra light mechanical support structures.

Website: http://cern.ch/TALENT

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Heinz Pernegger (PH)

EU funding: 4.5 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/01/2012 - 31/12/2015

FP7 People: Marie Curie - Initial Training Network (ITN)

UNILHC

Unification in the LHC ERA
The main research theme of this initial training network is the theoretical interpretation of results coming from LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and other experimental and observational sources. The aim is to identify the physics Beyond the Standard Model of strong, weak and electro¬magnetic forces and ultimately to provide a fully unified description of the fundamental states of matter and their interactions.

Website: http://www.cpht.polytechnique.fr/rtn_aef/Web_page_UNILHC/itn.html

Coordinator: EP, France

CERN Contact: Christophe Grojean (PH)

EU funding: 3.7 M€ over 4 years

Status: Started
01/10/2009 - 30/09/2013