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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: Completed
01/10/2008 - 30/09/2012

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: Completed
01/02/2012 - 31/01/2016

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: https://espace.cern.ch/Marie-Curie-CATHI/default.aspx

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Yacine Kadi  (EN)

EU funding: 4.8 M€ over 4 years

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

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.

Coordinator: Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

CERN Contact: Jasper Kirkby (PH)

EU funding: 2.4 M€ over 4 years

Status: Completed
01/08/2008 - 31/07/2012
2nd phase see CLOUD-TRAIN

CLOUD Initial Treaining Network 
The aim of CLOUD-TRAIN is to establish a multi-site network of Early Stage Researchers (here predominantly PhD students) and Experienced Researchers at 10 partner institutions across Europe. The role of aerosol nucleation for atmospheric CCN levels, clouds and climate is investigated. The influence of various vapours and ions for aerosol nucleation, growth and cloud processes is studied to significantly improve our understanding of natural and anthropogenic climate forcing as well as feedback mechanisms. The project is a follow-up of CLOUD ITN

Website: http://www.cloud-train.eu 

Coordinator: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Mainz, Germany

CERN Contact: Jasper Kirkby (PH)

EU funding: 3.7 M€ over 4 years

Status: Completed
1/10/2012 - 30/09/2016

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: Completed
01/06/2008 - 31/05/2012
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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Olga Beltramello (PH)

EU funding: 3000€ over 4 years

Status: Completed
01/09/2012 - 31/08/2016

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

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: http://openlab.web.cern.ch/ice-dip

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Bob Jones (IT)

EU funding: 1.250 M€ over 4 years

Status: Completed
01/02/2013 - 31/01/2017

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: Completed
01/10/2011 - 30/09/2015

Training Network for Monte Carlo Event Generators for LHC Physics
PACMAN is an Innovative Doctoral Program, hosted by CERN. It will offer training to 10 Early Stage Researchers in beam instrumentation, metrology, micrometric alignment, magnetic measurements, nano-positioning and high precision engineering.

Website: http://montecarlonet.org/

Coordinator: UniMan, UK

CERN Contact: Peter Skands (PH)

EU funding: 0.5 M€ over 3 years

Status: Completed
01/01/2013- 31/01/2016

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 playan 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: Completed
01/11/2008 - 31/10/2012

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 Monitorsfor 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: Completed
01/12/2011 - 30/11/2015

Particle Accelerator Components' Metrology and Alignment to the Nanometer scale
PACMAN is an Innovative Doctoral Program, hosted by CERN. It will offer training to 10 Early Stage Researchers in beam instrumentation, metrology, micrometric alignment, magnetic measurements, nano-positioning and high precision engineering.

Website: http://pacman.web.cern.ch/pacman/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Helene Mainaud-Durand (BE)

EU funding: 2.6 M€ 

Status: Started
01/09/2013 - 31/08/2017

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: Completed
01/10/2008 - 30/09/2012

Pico-second Silicon photomultiplier-Electronics- & Crystal research-Marie-Curie-Network
This project aims to bring together early career researchers and experienced colleagues from across Europe, to take part in a structured, integrated and multidisciplinary training program for young researchers in an R&D project geared 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)

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

Preventing hUman intervention for incrREased SAfety in inFrastructures Emitting ionizing radiation
This project aims at enhancing career development and training of Early-Stage Researchers in the field of systems engineering. The program trains young researchers from multidisciplinary fields, such as mechanical engineering, software engineering, robotics and radiation protection for the purpose of cost-efficient life-cycle management of facilities generating ionizing radiation.

Website: PURESAFE

Coordinator: Tampere University of Technology, Finland

CERN Contact: Keith Kershaw (EN)

Status: Completed
01/12/2011 - 31/01/2015

Training for cAreer deveLopment in high-radiation ENvironmentTechnologies 
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: Completed
01/01/2012 - 31/12/2015

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: Completed
01/10/2009 - 30/09/2013

IAPP

Fast Tracker for Hadron Collider Experiments
This project aims to develop an extremely fast but compact processor, with supercomputer performances, for pattern recognition, data reduction, and information extraction in high quality image processing. 
The proposed hardware prototype features flexibility for potential applications in a wide range of fields, from triggering in high energy physics to simulating human brain functions in experimental psychology or to automating diagnosis by imaging in medical physics. In general, any artificial intelligence process based on massive pattern recognition could largely profit from our device, provided data are suitably prepared and formatted.

Coordinator: Universita di Pisa, Italy

CERN Contact: Fabio Formenti (PH)

EU funding: 1.6 M€

Status: Completed
01/02/2013 - 31/01/2017

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.

Coordinator: UH, Finland

CERN Contact: Germana Riddone (BE)

EU funding: 1 M€ over 4 years

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

COFUND

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 started
01/10/2012 - 30/09/2017

IRSES

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.

Coordinator: Uni Roma, Italy

CERN Contact: Jose Salicio Diez (PH)

EU funding: 9 M€ over 4 years

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

Researcher's Night

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

Origins 2013 - a European Researchesr' Night event

Last July, CERN announced the discovery of a new particle, confirmed to be the Higgs boson this year, responsible for the origin of particles mass. In March, the unprecedented resolution provided by the instruments installed onboard ESAs Planck satellite, has revealed unexpected fluctuations in the temperature distribution of the primordial radiation of the Big Bang, providing an unprecedented insight into the origins of our Universe and a new picture of its composition today. Planck is painting a new picture of the Universe that is pushing the limits of understanding current cosmological theories. On Researchers Night 2013, we celebrate the multi-disciplinary teams of scientists who made these and other discoveries possible.

Website: http://www.origins2013.eu/

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Paola Catapano (DG)

EU funding: 100 k€ over 7 months

Status: Completed

1/04/2013 - 30/09/2013