FP7 Capacities

European Research Infrastructures

AIDA

Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators

AIDA 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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Laurent Serin

EU funding: 8 M€ over 4 years

1 February 2011 - 31 January 2015

CRISP

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.

Coordinator: ESRF, France

CERN Contact: Bob Jones

EU funding: 11.99 M€ over 3 years

1 October 2011 - 30 September 2014

ENSAR

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.

Coordinator: GANIL, France

CERN Contact: Yorick Blumenfeld

EU funding: 8 M€ over 4 years

1 September 2010 - 31 August 2014

EUCARD

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Jean-Pierre Koutchouk

EU funding: 10 M€ over 4 years

1 April 2009 - 31 July 2013

EUCARD-2

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Maurizio Vretenar

EU funding: 8 M€ over 4 years

1 May 2013- 30 April 2017

EuHIT

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.

Coordinator: Max-Plank, Germany

CERN Contact: Olivier Pirotte

EU funding: 7 M€ over 3 years

1 April 2013 - 30 March 2017

EUROnu

High Intensity Neutrino Oscillation Facility in Europe
EUROnu 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.

Coordinator: RAL, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Ilias Efthymiopoulos

EU funding: 4 M€ over 4 years

1 September 2008 - 31 August 2012

HiLumi LHC

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Lucio Rossi

EU funding: 4.9 M€ over 4 years

1 November 2011 - 31 October 2015

ICAN

International Coherent Amplification Network

ICAN 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

EU funding: 0.5 M€ over 18 months

1 October 2011 - 31 March 2013

ILC-HiGrade

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.

Coordinator: DESY, Germany

CERN Contact: Jean-Pierre Delahaye

EU funding: 5 M€ over 4 years

1 February 2008 - 31 January 2012

LAGUNA

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.

Coordinator: ETHZ, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Ilias Eftymiopoulos

EU funding: 4.9 M€ over 3 years

1 September 2011 - 31 August 2014

SLHC-PP

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Roland Garoby

EU funding: 5.2 M€ over 3 years

1 April 2008 - 30 March 2011

TIARA

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.

Coordinator: CEA, France

CERN Contact: Steve Myers

EU funding: 3.9 M€ over 3 years

1 January 2011 - 31 December 2013

ULICE

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.

Coordinator: CNAO, Italy

CERN Contact: Manjit Dosanjh

EU funding: 8.4 M€ over 4 years

1 September 2009 - 31 August 2013

Science in Society

Pathway

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.

Coordinator: UBT, Germany

CERN Contact: Markus Nordberg

EU funding: 3.4 M€ over 3 years

1 January 2011 - 31 December 2013

SOAP

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 0.9 M€ over 2 years

1 March 2009 - 28 February 2011

e-Infrastructures

BalticGrid-II

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 BalticGrid e-Infrastructure in the Baltic States. Baltic Grid II partners are from Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Switzerland and Belarus.

Coordinator: KTH, Sweden

CERN Contact: Frédéric Hemmer, Florida Estrella

EU funding: 3 M€ over 2 years

1 May 2008 - 30 April 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.

Coordinator: IASA, Greece

CERN Contact: Rolf Landua

EU funding: 0.9 M€ over 2 years

1 September 2011 - 31 August 2013

D4science

DILIGENT 4 Science

D4science 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.

Coordinator: ERCIM, France

CERN Contact: Tim Smith, Florida Estrella

EU funding: 3.15 M€ over 2 years

1 January 2008 - 31 December 2009

D4Science-II

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.

Coordinator: ERCIM, France

CERN Contacts: Tim Smith, Pedro Andrade, Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 4.3 M€ over 2 years

1 October 2009 - 30 September 2011

EGEE

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Bob Jones

EU funding: 32 M€ over 2 years

1 May 2008 - 30 April 2010

EGI

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).

Coordinator: GUP, Austria

CERN Contact: Juergen Knobloch

EU funding: 2.5 M€ over 28 months

1 September 2007 - 30 December 2009

EMI

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Alberto Di Meglio

EU funding: 12.87 M€ over 3 years

1 May 2010 - 30 April 2013

EGI-InSPIRE

European Grid Initiative - Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe
EGI-InSPIRE 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.

Coordinator: egi.eu, Netherlands

CERN Contact: Jamie Shiers

EU funding: 25 M€ over 4 years

1 May 2010 - 30 April 2014

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.

Coordinator: egi.eu, Netherlands

CERN Contact: Bob Jones

EU funding: 1.3 M€ over 33 months

1 September 2010 - 31 May 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

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Alberto di Meglio

EU funding: 2.7 M€ over 2 years

1 March 2008 - 28 February 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.

Coordinator: CSC, Finland

CERN Contact: Ian Bird

EU funding: 9.3 M€ over 3 years

1 October 2011 - 30 September 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.

Coordinator: QMUL, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Frédéric Hemmer, Florida Estrella

EU funding: 0.5 M€ over 28 months

1 May 2008 - 31 August 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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Bob Jones

EU funding: 1.8 M€ over 2 years
1 June 2012 - 30 May 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.

Coordinator: ERCIM, France

CERN Contact: Andrea Manzi

EU funding: 5 M€ over 30 months

1 November 2011 - 30 April 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

EU funding: 0.7 M€ over 2 years

1 November 2010 - 31 October 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.

Coordinator: The British Library, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 0.76 M€ over 2 years

1 September 2012 - 31 August 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.

Coordinator: NKUA, Greece

CERN Contact: Tim Smith, Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 4.16 M€ over 3 years

1 December 2009 - 30 November 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.

Coordinator: NKUA, Greece

CERN Contact: Tim Smith

EU funding: 4.2 M€ over 30 months

1 December 2011 - 31 May 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.

Coordinator: STFC, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 1.25 M€ over 2 years

1 March 2008 - 30 June 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.

Coordinator: GRNET, Greece

CERN Contact: Frédéric Hemmer, Florida Estrella

EU funding: 2.5 M€ over 2 years

1 May 2008 - 30 April 2010

International Cooperation

CESSAMag

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Jean-Pierre Koutchouk

EU funding: 5 M€ over 4 years

1 November 2012 - 30 October 2016

FP7 People

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Robert Mclaren

EU funding: 3.5 M€ over 4 years

1 October 2008 - 30 September 2012

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Marco Silari

EU funding: 3.92 M€ over 4 years

1 February 2012 - 31 January 2016

CATHI

Cryogenics, Accelerators and Targets at HIE-ISOLDE

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

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Yacine Kadi

EU funding: 4.8 M€ over 4 years

1 November 2010 - 31 October 2014

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.

Coordinator: UniFrankfurt, Germany

CERN Contact: Jasper Kirkby

EU funding: 2.4 M€ over 4 years

1 August 2008 - 31 July 2012
2nd phase see CLOUD-TRAIN

CLOUD-TRAIN

CLOUD Initial Training 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.

Coordinator: UniFrankfurt, Germany

CERN Contact: Jasper Kirkby

EU funding: 3.7 M€ over 4 years

1 October 2012 - 30 September 2016

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.

Coordinator: Heidelberg, Germany

CERN Contact: Enrico Bravin

EU funding: 4 M€ over 4 years

1 June 2008 - 31 May 2012

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Olga Beltramello

EU funding: 3 M€ over 4 years

1 September 2012 - 31 August 2016

ENTERVISION

Research Training in 3D Digital Imaging for Cancer Radiation Therapy
ENTERVISION 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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Manjit Dosanjh

EU funding: 3.8 M€ over 4 years

1 February 2011 - 31 January 2015

ICE-DIP

Intel-CERN European Doctorate Industrial Program
ICE-DIP 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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Bob Jones

EU funding: 1.2 M€ over 4 years

1 February 2013 - 31 January 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.

Coordinator: University of Liverpool, UK

CERN Contact: Valentin Fedosseev, Enrico Bravin

EU funding: 4.58 M€ over 4 years

1 October 2011 - 30 September 2015

MCnet

Training Network for Monte Carlo Event Generators for LHC Physics
MCnet is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network dedicated to developing and supporting general-purpose Monte Carlo event generators throughout the LHC era and beyond, and providing training of a wide selection of its user base, particularly through funded short-term 'residencies' and Annual Schools.

Coordinator: UniMan, UK

CERN Contact: Peter Skands

EU funding: 0.5 M€ over 3 years

1 January 2013- 31 January 2016

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 Monitorsfor use in Cryogenic Environments.

Coordinator: University of Liverpool, UK

CERN Contact: Rhodri Jones

EU funding: 5.94 M€ over 4 years

1 December 2011 - 30 November 2015

MC-PAD

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Christian Joram

EU funding: 4.7 M€ over 4 years

1 November 2008 - 31 October 2012

PACMAN

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Helene Mainaud-Durand

EU funding: 2.6 M€

1 September 2013 - 31 August 2017

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

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Manjit Dosanjh

EU funding: 5.6 M€ over 4 years

1 October 2008 - 30 September 2012

PICOSEC

Pico-second Silicon photomultiplier-Electronics- & Crystal research-Marie-Curie-Network
PICOSEC 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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns

EU funding: 5.7 M€ over 4 years

1 December 2011 - 30 November 2015

PURESAFE

Preventing hUman intervention for incrREased SAfety in inFrastructures Emitting ionizing radiation
PURESAFE 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.

Coordinator: Tampere University of Technology, Finland

CERN Contact: Keith Kershaw

EU funding: 3.9 M€ over 4 years

1 December 2011 - 31 January 2015

TALENT

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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Heinz Pernegger

EU funding: 4.5 M€ over 4 years

1 January 2012 - 31 December 2015

UNILHC

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.

Coordinator: EP, France

CERN Contact: Christophe Grojean

EU funding: 3.7 M€ over 4 years

1 October 2009 - 30 September 2013

IAPP

FTK

FTK: 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

EU funding: 1.6 M€

1 February 2013 - 31 January 2017

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.

Coordinator: UH, Finland

CERN Contact: Germana Riddone

EU funding: 1 M€ over 4 years

1 September 2010 - 31 August 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

EU funding: 5 M€ per phase over 4 years

1st phase: 1 Apr 2009 - 31 Mar 2013
2nd phase: 1 Oct 2011 - 30 Sep 2015
3rd phase: 1 Oct 2012 - 30 Sep 2017

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.

Coordinator: Uni Roma, Italy

CERN Contact: Jose Salicio Diez

EU funding: 9 M€ over 4 years

1 February 2011 - 31 January 2015

Researcher's 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.

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

CERN Contact: Paola Catapano

EU funding: 0.2 M€ over 7 months

1 April 2010 - 31 October 2010

Origins 2013

Origins 2013 - a European Researchesr' Night event

On 4 July 2012, 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.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Paola Catapano

EU funding: 100 k€ over 7 months

1 April 2013 - 30 September 2013

FP7 EURATOM

Fission

ERINDA

European Research Infrastructures for Nuclear Data Applications
ERINDA aims to coordinate European efforts to exploit up-to-date neutron beam technology for novel research on advanced concepts for nuclear fission reactors and the transmutation of radioactive waste.

Coordinator: HZDR, Germany

CERN Contact: Enrico Chiaveri

EU funding: 1.11 M€ over 3 years

1 December 2010 - 30 November 2013

CHANDA

Solving CHAllenges in Nuclear DAta

The CHANDA project main objective is to address the challenges in the field of nuclear data for nuclear applications and its acronym stands for solving CHAllenges in Nuclear DAta.

Coordinator: CIEMAT, Spain

CERN Contact: Enrico Chiaveri

EU funding: 1.11 M€ over 4 years

1 December 2013 - 30 November 2017

FP7 Cooperation

Energy

BESTPATHS

BESTPATHS: Beyond state-of-the-art technologies for power AC corridors and multi-terminal HVDC systems
With nearly 40 leading organisations from research, industry, utilitis and transmission systems operators, the project aims to develop novel network technologies to increase the pan-European transmission network capacity and electricity system flexibility.

Coordinator: Red Electrica de Espana, Spain

CERN Contact: Amalia Ballarino

EU funding: 34.3 M€ over 4 years

1 October 2014 - 30 September 2018

ERANET

ASPERA-2

ASPERA-2: Deepening and Broadening of Astroparticle Physics European Coordination
In order to allow a deepening and broadening of the successful ERA-NET work started with ASPERA in FP6, the extended consortium will establish joint European activities, sustainable procedures of mutual coordination and benchmarking, sustainable structure for European Coordination in Astroparticle Physics. It will also extend the network and increase synergies and outreach.

Coordinator: DESY, Germany

CERN Contact: James Gillies

EU funding: 2.8 M€ over 3 years

1 July 2009 - 30 June 2012

Environment

enviroGRIDS

enviroGRIDS @ Black Sea Basin
The Black Sea Basin is internationally recognized for its ecologically unsustainable development and inadequate resource management leading to severe environmental, social and economical problems. The enviroGRIDS @ Black Sea Basin project is addressing these issues by bringing several new emerging information technologies that are totally revolutionizing the way we will be looking at our planet in the future.

Coordinator: UNIGE, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Jamie Shiers and Jakub Moscicki

EU funding: 6.22 M€ over 4 years

1 April 2009 - 31 March 2013

Health

ENDOTOFPET-US

ENDOTOFPET-US: Novel multimodal endoscopic probes for simultaneous PET/ultrasound imaging for image-guided interventions
The development of new, higher performance imaging techniques with multimodal capability will allow novel endoscopic procedures in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy and in surgical oncology aiming at diagnosing more patients with earlier tumour stages and improving patient outcome and therapy, as well as reducing health costs.

Coordinator: UnivMed, France

CERN Contact: Paul Lecoq

EU funding: 5.5 M€ over 4 years

1 January 2011 - 31 December 2014

ENVISION

European NoVel Imaging Systems for ION therapy
The FP7 Research Infrastructure ULICE Project (Union of Light Ions Centres in Europe) addresses the important issues of high precision dose delivery in hadron-therapy. In-vivo monitoring of delivered dose and quality assurance are of equal importance for clinical therapy and will be addressed in this complementary ENVISION project. See video.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Manjit Dosanjh

EU funding: 6 M€ over 4 years

1 February 2010 - 31 January 2014

ICT

APARSEN

Alliance Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network
APARSEN will combine and integrate digital preservation programmes already being undertaken by consortium members into a shared programme of work. This will create the pre-eminent virtual research centre in digital preservation in Europe, if not the World.

Coordinator: STFC, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 6.8 M€ over 4 years

1 January 2011 - 31 December 2014

BlogForever

BlogForever
BlogForever will develop robust digital preservation, management and dissemination facilities for weblogs. These facilities will be able to capture the dynamic and continuously evolving nature of weblogs, their network and social structure, and the exchange of concepts and ideas that they foster; pieces of information omitted by current Web Archiving methods and solutions.

Coordinator: ALTEC Software S.A., Greece

CERN Contact: Bob Jones

EU funding: 3.2 M€ over 30 months

1 January 2011 - 31 June 2013

Citizen Cyberlab

Technology Enhanced Creative Learning in the field of Citizen Cyberscience
Citizen Cyberlab will research and evaluate on-line collaborative environments and software tools that stimulate creative learning in the context of Citizen Cyberscience. Beyond helping scientists execute laborious tasks, Citizen Cyberscience projects enable citizens to learn about science and take part in the more creative aspects of research.

Coordinator: UPD, France

CERN Contact: Peter Skands

EU funding: 3.4 M€ over 3 years

1 October 2012 - 30 September 2015

Go-Lab

Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
The Go-Lab project will open up remote science laboratories, their data archives, and virtual models (“online labs”) for large-scale use in education. Go-Lab enables science inquiry-based learning that promotes acquisition of deep conceptual domain knowledge and inquiry skills and directs students to careers in science.

Coordinator: University of Twente, Netherlands

CERN Contact: Rolf Landua

EU funding: 9.7 M€ over 4 years

1 November 2012 - 30 October 2016

Space

SR2S

Space Radiation Superconductive Shield
SR2S explores the feasibility of a superconducting magnetic shield to protect astronauts from long time exposure to Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) and Solar Energetic Particles (SEP) which are thought to cause a significant increase in the probability of various type of cancers. It also includes the development of some key abilitating technologies to be used to build such a spacecraft shield.

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

CERN Contact: Amalia Ballarino

EU funding: 1.99 M€ over 3 years

1 November 2012 - 30 October 2015

Transport

CityMobil2

Cities demonstrating cybernetic mobility
CityMobil highlighted the importance of automating road vehicles, from partly automated car-share schemes through CyberCars and PRT, to BRT which can make urban mobility more sustainable. CityMobil2 aims to address the main barriers that have been identified to the deployment of automated road vehicles: the implementation framework, the legal framework and the unknown wider economic effect.

Coordinator: Uni Roma, Italy

CERN Contact: Frederic Magnin

EU funding: 3.9 M€ over 4 years

1 September 2012 - 31 August 2016

FP7 Ideas

Starting Grants

Cosmo@LHC

Cosmology at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
The Cosmo@LHC project has two inter-twined aspects. One is on the electroweak theory, particle physics issues such as relation to the hierarchy problem, collider signatures and flavour problems. The second one is on the cosmology implications of new physics at the TeV scale.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Geraldine Servant

EU funding: 0.8 M€ over 5 years

1 July 2008 - 30 June 2013

HOTLHC

Hot and dense QCD in the LHC era
QCD, the theory of strong interactions, has been defined as our most perfect physical theory, in part because its compact and apparently simple Lagrangian hides a plethora of emerging phenomena. Hot LHC aims to fully exploit the new possibilities of the Large Hadron Collider to characterise unexplored domains of QCD.

Coordinator: USC, Spain

CERN Contact: Urs Wiedemann

EU funding: 1.4 M€ over 5 years

1 January 2012 - 31 December 2016

Advanced Grants

BSMOXFORD

BSMOXFORD: Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC and with Atom Interferometers
Elementary particle physics is entering a spectacular new area in which experiments at the LHC at CERN will soon start probing some of the deepest questions in physics. BSMOXFORD is aimed at setting up a world-leading European center for development of a deeper theory of fundamental physics.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Savas Dimopoulos

EU funding: 2.2 M€ over 5 years

1 May 2009 - 30 April 2014

LHCtheory

Theoretical predictions and analyses of LHC physics: advancing the precision frontier
LHCtheory plans to push to new levels of precision the predictive power of theoretical analyses of the phenomena observed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The crucial ingredient in the success of this ambitious programme is the ability to interpret the signals extracted by the experiments. Capitalizing on recent theoretical advances, this project outlines a challenging and ambitious programme to advance to new levels the precision, generality and scope of the analysis tools used by both experimentalists and theorists engaged in LHC physics.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Michelangelo Mangano

EU funding: 2 M€ over 5 years

1 April 2012 - 31 March 2017

Superfields

Supersymmetry, Quantum Gravity and Gauge Fields
Superfields aims at investigating some crucial issues in globally supersymmetric and Supergravity theories. The project will be carried out through the abilities and the skills of the PI and of the team members, with their complementary expertise on different but interrelated topics in the holographic approach to modern theories of quantum gravity. Supersymmetry and gauge principles will serve as basic tools for their research.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Sergio Ferrara

EU funding: 1.7 M€ over 5 years

1 June 2009 - 31 May 2014

TERAUNIVERSE

Exploring the Terauniverse with the LHC, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Terauniverse will lead the understanding whatever new physics the LHC may reveal, incorporating insights from cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and speculative ideas such as string theory. This interdisciplinary approach will also facilitate the application of knowledge acquired from the LHC to fundamental cosmological and astrophysical problems, as well as illuminate future collider priorities, e.g., for LHC upgrades and/or a linear collider.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: John Ellis

EU funding: 1.9 M€ over 5 years

1 April 2011 - 31 March 2016

TICAL

4D total absorption imaging calorimeter
TICAL proposes a breakthrough in particle detectors by developing a highly granular calorimeter with high-resolution timing information, thus providing precise information of the space-time development of electromagnetic and hadronic showers.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Paul Lecoq

EU funding: 2.2 M€ over 4 years

1 February 2014 - 31 January 2018

TORCH

TORCH: A large-area detector for precision time-of-flight measurements
The TORCH (Time Of internally Reflected CHerenkov light) detector provides a time-of-flight measurement from the imaging of photons emitted in a 1 cm thick quartz radiator, based on the Cherenkov principle. This novel detector system has the potential to revolutionize particle identification in the difficult intermediate momentum region, up to 20 GeV/c.

Coordinator: UOXF, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Roger Forty

EU funding: 2.7 M€ over 5 years

1 April 2012 - 31 March 2017

Consolidator Grants

HICCUP

High Impact Cross Section Calculations for Ultimate precision
This project deals with precision QCD calculations that are relevant for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment, and for future colliders. The project is divided into two main parts. In the first part, a general procedure to merge calculations involving different jet multiplicities at next-to-leading order (NLO) level will be formulated. A second part of the project will push the frontier of next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) resummations to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic level (NNLL), thereby achieving a considerable reduction of uncertainty for important final state observables. Besides the groundbreaking impact on present LHC physics measurements, these results will also be essential to match the high accuracy of measurements at a future linear collider.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Giulia Zanderighi

EU funding: 1.5 M€ over 5 years

1 April 2014 - 31 March 2019

FP7 Projects

FP7 Capacities

European Research Infrastructures

Science in Society

e-Infrastructures

International Cooperation

FP7 People

ITN

IAPP

COFUND

IRSES

Researcher's Night

FP7 EURATOM

Fission

FP7 Cooperation

Energy

ERANET

Environment

Health

ICT

Space

Transport

FP7 Ideas

Starting Grants

Advanced Grants

Consolidator Grants