Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators

The AIDA project addresses the upgrade, improvement and integration of key research infrastructures in Europe, developing advanced detector technologies for future particle accelerators, as well as transnational access to test beams and irradiations facilities. The project concentrates on four areas of detector development (sLHC, Linear Colliders, neutrino facilities and Super-B factories), with an emphasis on activities and infrastructures common to all four areas.

Website: http://cern.ch/aida

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

 CERN Contact: Laurent Serin (PH)

 EU funding: 8 M€ over 4 years

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

Cluster of Research Infrastructures for Synergies in Physics

CRISP is creating synergies and developing common solutions for an initial group of eleven ESFRI-PPs (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure preparatory phase) projects in the field of Physics, Astronomy, and Analytical Facilities. Its ultimate aim is to supply the best service to the rapidly growing and largely diversified user community, and to ensure that the large investments made at the national and international levels result in significant progress in science. The eleven projects are ESRFUP, FAIR, ILL 20/20, SLHC, SPIRAL2, ESS, XFEL, ELI, EuroFEL, ILC-HiGrade, and SKA.

Website: http://www.crisp-fp7.eu/

Coordinator: ESRF, France

CERN Contact: Bob Jones (IT)

EU funding: 11.99 M€ over 3 years

Status: Completed
01/10/2011 - 30/09/2014

European Nuclear Science and Applications Research
ENSAR is the Integrating Activity of Nuclear Scientists from almost all European countries performing research in three of the major subfields of Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Astrophysics and Applications of Nuclear Science.

Website: http://www.ensarfp7.eu/

Coordinator: GANIL, France

CERN Contact: Yorick Blumenfeld (PH)

EU funding: 8 M€ over 4 years

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

European Coordination for Accelerator Research and Development
EuCARD will contribute to the formation of a European Research Area in accelerator science, effectively creating a distributed accelerator laboratory across Europe. It will address the new priorities by upgrading European accelerator infrastructures while continuing to strengthen the collaboration between its participants and developing synergies with industrial partners. R&D will be conducted on high field superconducting magnets, superconducting RF cavities which are particularly relevant for FLASH, XFEL and SC proton linacs, two-beam acceleration, high efficiency collimation and new accelerator concepts.

Website: http://cern.ch/EuCARD/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Jean-Pierre Koutchouk (DG)

EU funding: 10 M€ over 4 years

Status: Completed
01/04/2009 - 31/7/2013

Enhanced European Coordination for Accelerator Research & Development
EuCARD-2 brings a global view to accelerator research; coordinating a consortium of 41 accelerator laboratories, technology institutes, universities and industry to jointly address common challenges. It includes six networks which concentrate on extreme beam performance, novel accelerator concepts with outstanding potential, energy efficiency and accelerator applications in the fields of medicine, industry, environment and energy.

Website: http://cern.ch/eucard2

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Maurizio Vretenar (BE)

EU funding: 8 M€ over 4 years

Status: Completed 

1/5/2013- 30/04/2017

European High-performance Infrastructures in Turbulence
EuHIT is a consortium that aims at integrating cutting-edge European facilities for turbulence research across national boundaries, in order to significantly advance the competitive edge of European turbulence research with special focus on providing the knowledge for technological innovation and for addressing grand societal challenges.

Website: http://www.euhit.org/

Coordinator: Max-Plank, Germany

CERN Contact: Olivier Pirotte (TE)

EU funding: 7 M€ over 3 years

Status: Completed

01/04/2013 -  30/03/2017

High Intensity Neutrino Oscillation Facility in Europe
This design study is prompted by the recent discovery that the neutrino changes type (or flavour) as it travels through space, a phenomenon referred to as neutrino oscillations. To investigate these oscillations will require new high intensity neutrino oscillation facilities. The design study will review the three currently accepted methods to realize such a neutrino facility (the so-called neutrino Superbeams, Beta Beams and Neutrino Factories) and do cost and risk assessments as well as a critical physics evaluation of these facilities.

Website: www.euronu.org

Coordinator: RAL, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Ilias Efthymiopoulos (EN)

EU funding: 4 M€ over 4 years

Status: Completed
01/09/2008 - 31/08/2012

FP7 High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Design Study
HiLumi LHC is part of an overall project that will federate efforts and R&D of a large community towards the ambitious HL-LHC luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider. HiLumi LHC involves participants from outside the European Research Area (ERA), in particular leading US and Japanese laboratories, which will facilitate the implementation of the construction phase as a global project. The proposed governance model is tailored accordingly and may pave the way for the organization of other global research infrastructures.

Website: http://www.cern.ch/HiLumiLHC/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Lucio Rossi (TE)

EU funding: 4.9 M€ over 4 years

Status: Completed
01/11/2011 - 31/10/2015

International Coherent Amplification Network 

This project studies a novel laser concept for High Energy Particle acceleration, known as CAN for Coherent Amplification Network that would guarantee high peak power and high average powers while exhibiting high efficiency, >30%. The approach is based on fibre amplification. The proposed technical evaluation will be performed by combining the expertise, know-how, and knowledge of world leading experts coming from optical science, technology and industry, including femtosecond fibre optics, instrumental optics, astronomy, manufacturing, and marketing.

Coordinator: CNRS, France

CERN Contact: Jean-Pierre Koutchouk (DG)

EU funding: 0.5 M€ over 18 months

Status: Completed
01/10/2011 - 31/03/2013

International Linear Collider and High Gradient Superconducting RF-Cavities
One of the main objectives of the ILC-HiGrade project is to create at least 24 accelerating cavities, superconducting components made of pure niobium for the planned International Linear Collider (ILC), that reach the high technical standards needed for the planned particle physics project. Other objectives include the development of a possible organisation and governance for the ILC and measures to prepare for the actual construction of the machine, including a detailed study on possible sites in Europe.

Website: http://www.ilc-higrade.eu/

Coordinator: DESY, Germany

CERN Contact: Jean-Pierre Delahaye (DG)

EU funding: 5 M€ over 4 years

Status: Completed
01/02/2008 - 31/01/2012

Design of a pan-European Infrastructure for Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification, Neutrino Astrophysics and Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations
The Astroparticle Roadmap of ApPEC/ASPERA strongly recommends that: “a new large European infrastructure of 100'000-500'000 ton for proton decay and low-energy neutrinos be evaluated as a common design study together with the underground infrastructure and eventual detection of accelerator neutrino beams”. The LAGUNA FP7 design study will study seven pre-selected locations (Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain and UK), perform a detailed geo-technical assessment of the giant underground cavern needed, and determine costs and the full impact of including long baseline neutrino physics with beams from CERN.

Website: http://cern.ch/lbno 

Coordinator: ETHZ, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Ilias Eftymiopoulos (EN)

EU funding: 4.9 M€ over 3 years

Status: Completed
01/09/2011 - 31/08/2014

Preparatory Phase of the Large Hadron Collider upgrade
The main aim of SLHC-PP is to prepare the Super-Large Hadron Collider (SLHC) project for a decision on the approval of its implementation by 2011. Beside the justification of SLHC by the physics results and operational experience from the first years of LHC running, the necessary ingredients for the approval will include: the maturity of new technologies required for SLHC, solutions for critical safety issues, and the formation of collaborations for the implementation, including the definition of work sharing and financial commitments.

Website: http://cern.ch/SLHC-PP/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Roland Garoby (DG)

EU funding: 5.2 M€ over 3 years

Status: Completed
01/04/2008 - 30/03/2011

Test Infrastructure and Accelerator Research Area
The main objective of TIARA is the integration of national and international accelerator R&D infrastructures into a single distributed European accelerator R&D facility. This will include the implementation of organisational structures to combine existing individual infrastructures, ensuring their efficient operation and upgrades, and the construction of new infrastructures as part of TIARA.

Website: http://www.eu-tiara.eu/

Coordinator: CEA, France

CERN Contact: Steve Myers (DG)

EU funding: 3.9 M€ over 3 years

Status: Completed
01/01/2011 - 31/12/2013

Union of Light Ion Centres in Europe
ULICE responds to the need for greater access to hadron therapy facilities for particle therapy research. Full exploitation of all different resources, unrestricted spread of information and the improvement of existing and upcoming facilities are provided by using grid-based data sharing. See video.

Website: http://cern.ch/ulice

Coordinator: CNAO, Italy

CERN Contact: Manjit Dosanjh (DG)

EU funding: 10 M€ over 4 years

Status: Completed
01/09/2009 - 31/08/2013

The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching 
The Pathway Supporting Action is bringing together experts in the field of science education research and technology enhanced science education, scientists and researchers involved in pioneering scientific experiments, teachers’ communities, policy makers and curriculum developers to promote the effective widespread use of inquiry and problem based science teaching techniques in primary and secondary schools in Europe and beyond.

Website: Pathway

Coordinator: UBT, Germany

CERN Contact: Markus Nordberg (PH)

EU funding: 3.4 M€ over 3 years

Status: Completed
01/01/2011 - 31/12/2013

Study of Open Access Publishing
The shift from print-based to digital documents demands innovation from scientific publishers. Several radical new Open Access Publishing (OAP) business models have already emerged. The SOAP consortium represents key stakeholders such as publishers, funding agencies and a broad spectrum of research disciplines and aims to study these models, survey researchers and suggest scenarios.

Website: http://project-soap.eu/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele (GS)

EU funding: 0.8 M€ over 2 years

Status: completed
01/03/2009 - 28/02/2011

Baltic Grid Second Phase
The BalticGrid-II project is designed to increase the impact, adoption and reach, and to further improve the support of services and users of the recently created e-Infrastructure in the Baltic States. Baltic Grid II partners are from Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Switzerland and Belarus.

Website: http://www.balticgrid.org/

Coordinator: KTH, Sweden

CERN Contact: Frédéric Hemmer / Florida Estrella (IT)

EU funding: 3 M€ over 2 years

Status: Completed
01/05/2008 - 30/04/2010

Discover the COSMOS

DISCOVER THE COSMOS: e-Infrastructures for an Engaging Science Classroom
This project aims to demonstrate innovative ways to involve teachers and students in eScience through the use of existing e-infrastructures in order to spark young people’s interest in science and in following scientific careers. It aims to support policy development by a) demonstrating effective community building between researchers, teachers and students and empowering the latter to use, share and exploit the collective power of unique scientific resources in meaningful educational activities that promote inquiry-based learning and appreciation of how science works, b) demonstrating effective integration of science education with e-infrastructures through a monitored-for-impact use of eScience activities and c) documenting the whole process through the development of a roadmap.

Website: www.discoverthecosmos.eu

Coordinator: IASA, Greece

CERN Contact: Rolf Landua (PH)

EU funding: 0.9 M€ over 2 years

Status: Completed
01/09/2011 - 31/08/2013

The project will deploy, progressively consolidate and expand the e Infrastructures built so far by the EGEE and DILIGENT projects so that they address the needs of two major target disciplines (which have challenging differences but also interesting commonalities): Environmental Monitoring and Fishery Resources Management.

Website: http://www.d4science.eu/

Coordinator: ERCIM, France

CERN Contact: Tim Smith / Florida Estrella (IT)

EU funding: 3.15 M€ over 2 years

Status: Completed
01/01/2008 - 31/12/2009

Data Infrastructures Ecosystem for Science
D4Science-II will develop technology to enable interoperation of diverse data e-Infrastructures, creating e-Infrastructure Ecosystems. Furthermore, D4Science-II will bring together several scientific e-Infrastructures established in the areas of biodiversity, fishery resource management, high energy physics, etc., to set up a prototypical instance of such an ecosystem. D4Science-II constitutes a continuation of the DILIGENT and D4Science projects.

Website: http://www.d4science.eu

Coordinator: ERCIM, France

CERN Contacts: Tim Smith / Pedro Andrade (IT) & Salvatore Mele (GS)

EU funding: 4.3 M€ over 2 years

Status: Completed
01/10/2009 - 30/09/2011

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE Third Phase
In its third phase, the EGEE project will expand and optimise Europe's largest production Grid infrastructure, namely EGEE, by continuous operation of the infrastructure, support for more user communities, and addition of further computational and data resources. The project will also prepare the migration of the existing production European Grid from a project-based model to a sustainable federated infrastructure based on National Grid Initiatives for multi-disciplinary use.

Website: http://www.eu-egee.org/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Bob Jones (IT)

EU funding: 32 M€ over 2 years

Status: Completed
01/05/2008 - 30/04/2010

European Grid Infrastructure Design Study
The European Grid Initiative (EGI) Design Study represents an effort to establish a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe. Driven by the needs and requirements of the research community, it is expected to enable the next leap in research infrastructures, thereby supporting collaborative scientific discoveries in the European Research Area (ERA).

Website: http://web.eu-egi.eu/

Coordinator: GUP, Austria

CERN Contact: Juergen Knobloch (IT)

EU funding: 2.5 M€ over 28 months

Status: Completed
01/09/2007 - 30/12/2009

EGI-InSPIRE

European Grid Initiative - Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe
The project continues the transition to a sustainable pan-European e-Infrastructure started in EGEE-III. It sustains support for Grids of high-performance and high-throughput computing resources, while seeking to integrate new Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) (Clouds, SuperComputing, Desktop Grids, etc.), as required by the European user community.

Website: http://www.egi.eu/projects/egi-inspire/

Coordinator: egi.eu, Netherlands

CERN Contact: Jamie Shiers (IT)

EU funding: 25 M€ over 4 years

Status: Completed
01/05/2010 - 30/04/2014

EMI - European Middleware Initiative
EMI is a collaboration of the three major middleware providers in Europe, ARC, gLite and UNICORE, and other consortia. It aims to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other DCIs; extend the interoperability between grids and other computing infrastructures; strengthen the reliability of the services; and establish a sustainable model to maintain and evolve the middleware, fulfilling the requirements of the user communities.

Website: http://www.eu-emi.eu/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Alberto Di Meglio (IT)

EU funding: 12.87 M€ over 3 years

Status: Completed
01/05/2010 - 30/04/2013

e-ScienceTalk

e-ScienceTalk: Supporting Grid and High Performance Computing reporting across Europe
E-ScienceTalk will work with the EGI and other collaborating projects to expand the scope of the existing GridTalk outputs, to report on the interactions of grids with e-Infrastructures such as cloud computing and supercomputing, and will also explore options for the sustainability of e-ScienceTalk’s products.

Website: www.e-sciencetalk.org/

Coordinator: egi.eu, Netherlands 

CERN Contact: Bob Jones (IT)

EU funding: 1.3 M€ over 33 months

Status: Completed
01/09/2010 - 31/05/2013

ETICS-2

E-Infrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software, Phase 2 
The major objectives of the ETICS II project are to improve the current ETICS services providing an integrated combination of new key technologies (IPv6, testbeds virtualization, test management and workflow tools, release management tools) and actively involve new communities, such as the aerospace engineering community and the High Performance Computing community through collaborations with key organizations and scientific research projects

Website: http://eu-etics.org

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Alberto di Meglio (IT)

EU funding: 2.7 M€ over 2 years

Status: Completed
01/03/2008 - 28/02/2010

EUDAT

EUropean DATa
EUDAT plans to deliver a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) with the capacity and capability for meeting future researchers’ needs in a sustainable way. Its design will reflect a comprehensive picture of the data service requirements of the research communities in Europe and beyond. This will become increasingly important over the next decade as we face the challenges of massive expansion in the volume of data being generated and preserved (the so-called ‘data tsunami’) and in the complexity of that data and the systems required to provide access to it.

Website: http://www.eudat.eu/

Coordinator: CSC, Finland

CERN Contact: Ian Bird (IT)

EU funding: 9.3 M€ over 3 years

Status: Started
01/10/2011 - 30/09/2014

GridTalk

Grid Talk 
The impact of Grids has rapidly expanded beyond that which can be disseminated by individual projects. GridTalk will bring the success stories of Europe's e-Infrastructure to policy makers in government and business, to the broader scientific community, and to the general public, through articles and reports, the GridCafé website and the online newsletter international Science Grid This Week.

Website: http://www.gridtalk-project.eu/

Coordinator: QMUL, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Frédéric Hemmer / Florida Estrella (IT)

EU funding: 0.5 M€ over 28 months

Status: Completed
01/05/2008 - 31/08/2010

Helix Nebula

Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud 
The HELIX NEBULA Project is a preliminary step towards a European cloud-based scientific e-infrastructure: HELIX NEBULA – the Science Cloud. These cloud-based services offer greater efficiency, agility and innovation in delivery of services through economies of scale, multiple tenancy of irregularly-used resources and more sophisticated approaches to resource management.

Website: http://www.helix-nebula.eu/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Bob Jones (IT)

EU funding: 1.8 M€ over 2 years

Status:  Completed
01/06/2012 - 30/05/2014

iMarine

Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources 
The iMarine project plans to launch an initiative aimed at establishing and operating an e-infrastructure supporting the principles of the Ecosystem Approach to fisheries management and conservation of marine living resources. iMarine has three main objectives: (i) the establishment of an iMarine Board, formed by representatives of international organisations involved in this domain, which will define a sustainability-driven data-centric e-infrastructure governance model and organizational and technological policy recommendations; (ii) the management and operation of this e-Infrastructure offering user-level and application-level services that support the recommended policies and provide relevant functionality to the stakeholders; (iii) the extension, adaptation and deployment of a rich set of software components that implement these services.

Website: http://www.i-marine.eu

Coordinator: ERCIM, France

CERN Contact: Andrea Manzi (IT)

EU funding: 5 M€ over 30 months

Status: Completed
01/11/2011 - 30/04/2014

ODE

Opportunities for Data Exchange 
The transition from science to e-Science is happening: a data deluge emerges from publicly funded research facilities; a massive investment of public funds into the potential answer to the grand challenges of our times. This potential can only be realised by adding an interoperable data sharing, re-use and preservation layer to the emerging eco-system of e-Infrastructures. ODE will identify, collate, interpret and deliver evidence of emerging best practices in sharing, re-using, preserving and citing data, the drivers for these changes and barriers impeding progress, in forms suited to each audience.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele (GS)

EU funding: 0.7 M€ over 2 years

Status: Completed
01/11/2010 - 31/10/2012

ODIN

ORCID and DATACITE Interoperability Network 
ODIN is designing an “awareness layer” for persistent author and object identifiers, thereby reducing technical, cultural and logistical barriers to the accessibility, attribution and trust of data. “Data as infrastructure” is a critical concept for a fully-integrated European Research Area (ERA) to drive innovation forward as envisaged by the Digital Agenda for Europe.

Website: http://odin-project.eu/

Coordinator: The British Library, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele (GS)

EU funding: 0.76 M€ over 2 years

Status: Started
01/09/2012 - 31/08/2014

OpenAIRE

Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe
OpenAIRE will deliver the e-Infrastructure to power the Open Access pilot of the European Commission. This will consist of an electronic infrastructure and supporting mechanism for the identification, deposition, access and monitoring of FP7 and ERC funded articles, where the main supporting mechanism will be the establishment and operation of the European Helpdesk System. Additionally the project will offer a special repository for articles that can be stored neither in institutional nor in subject-based/thematic repositories.

Website: http://www.openaire.eu/

Coordinator: NKUA, Greece

CERN Contact: Tim Smith (IT) & Salvatore Mele (GS)

EU funding: 4.16 M€ over 3 years

Status: Completed
01/12/2009 - 30/11/2012

OpenAIREplus

2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe 
OpenAIREplus will build a 2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure by significantly expanding in several directions the outcomes of the OpenAIRE project, which implements the EC Open Access (OA) pilot. Capitalizing on the OpenAIRE infrastructure, built for managing FP7 and ERC funded articles, and the associated supporting mechanism of the European Helpdesk System, OpenAIREplus will “develop an open access, participatory infrastructure for scientific information”. Deposited articles and data will be openly accessible through an enhanced version of the OpenAIRE portal, together with any available relevant information on associated project funding and usage statistics.

Website: http://www.openaire.eu/

Coordinator: NKUA, Greece

CERN Contact: Tim Smith (IT)

EU funding: 4.2 M€ over 30 months

Status: Completed
01/12/2011 - 31/05/2014

Parse.Insight

Insight into issues of Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe 
There is a very real risk that much of the scientific data and documentation that exists may be lost to future generations unless permanent access is secured. PARSE.Insight focuses on the infrastructure needed to support persistence and understandability of these key assets over the long term.

Website: http://www.parse-insight.eu/

Coordinator: STFC, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele (GS)

EU funding: 1.25 M€ over 2 years

Status: Completed
01/03/2008 - 30/06/2010

SEE-GRID-SCI

South-East European Grid e-Infrastructures for Regional e-Science 
SEE-GRID-SCI stimulates widespread eInfrastructure uptake by new user groups extending over the south-east European region, fostering collaboration and providing advanced capabilities to more researchers, with an emphasis on strategic groups in seismology, meteorology and environmental protection. The initiative thus aims to have a catalytic and structuring effect on target user communities that currently do not directly benefit from the available infrastructures.

Website: http://www.see-grid-sci.eu/

Coordinator: GRNET, Greece

CERN Contact: Frédéric Hemmer / Florida Estrella (IT)

EU funding: 2.5 M€ over 2 years

Status: Completed
01/05/2008 - 30/04/2010

CERN-EC Support for SESAME Magnets
CESSAMag aims at supporting the construction of the SESAME light source, the Middle East's first major international research center in the making.

Website: http://cern.ch/cessamag

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Jean-Pierre Koutchouk (DG)

EU funding: 5 M€ over 4 years

Status: Completed
01/11/2012 - 30/10/2016