h2020 Projects at CERN
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Researcher's Night
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Every year, on the last Friday of September, the European Researchers’ Night takes place simultaneously in about 300 cities all over Europe and beyond. POP SCIENCE is the Geneva region programme for European Researchers’ Night 2014, on Friday September 26. With POP SCIENCE, the science investigating the most profound mysteries of our origins and the researchers who contribute to this new knowledge through their passionate work will be brought to the masses. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 968 k€ EU funding: 210 k€ EU funding for CERN: 95 k€ 1 May 2014 - 31 January 2016 |
Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
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AMVA4NewPhysics: Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis for New Physics Searches at the LHC The project will focus on developing advanced statistical learning techniques to data analyses at the LHC with the objective of maximizing the chance of new physics discoveries. The project will also setup a network of European institutions to foster the development and exploitation of Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis (AMVA) for New Physics searches. |
Coordinator: INFN, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.4 M€ EU funding: 2.4 M€ EU funding for CERN: 596 k€ 1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019 |
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AVA: Research with low energy antiprotons - a European training network Antiprotons, stored and cooled at low energies in a storage ring or at rest in traps, are highly desirable for the investigation of a large number of basic questions on fundamental interactions, on the static structure of exotic antiprotonic atomic systems or of (radioactive) nuclei as well as on the time-dependent quantum dynamics of correlated systems. Fundamental studies include for example CPT tests by high-resolution spectroscopy of the 1s-2s transition or of the ground-state hyperfine structure of antihydrogen, as well as gravity experiments with antimatter. Antimatter experiments are at the cutting edge of science; they are, however, very difficult to realize and presently limited by the performance of the only existing facility in the world, the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN. Advances are urgently required in the development of numerical tools that can adequately model beam transport, life time and interaction, the development of new beam diagnostics tools and detectors to fully measure the beam’s properties, as well as collaborative R&D into advanced experimental techniques for improved precision and novel experiments. These open challenges are addressed within AVA. This network between universities, research centers and industry partners will realize an interdisciplinary and cross-sector research and training program for a cohort of 15 Fellows which shall provide them with an ideal basis for their future careers.
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Coordinator: UNILIV, United Kingdom Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.8 M€ EU funding: 3.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 400 k€ 1 January 2017 - 31 December 2020 |
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CLOUD-MOTION: CLOUD Mobility, Training and Innovation Network The aim of CLOUD-MOTION is to establish a network of early stage researchers at 10 institutions across Europe. The role of aerosol nucleation for atmospheric aerosol, clouds and climate is investigated. A focus of the investigations is on a considerably improved understanding of pre-industrial aerosol concentration levels, which are crucial for an assessment of the climate forcing exerted by present-day aerosols. For this, the influence of Extremely Low Volatility Organic Compounds (ELVOCs) together with ions for aerosol nucleation without sulphuric acid is studied (“pre-industrial ELVOC nucleation”). Furthermore, the nucleation and initial growth induced by oxidation products from anthropogenic emissions of organic vapours (“anthropogenic ELVOC nucleation”) is studied, as well as the formation of ice on glassy Secondary Organic Aerosol acting as Ice Nucleating Particles (“glassy SOA as INP”).
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Coordinator: GUF, Germany Scientists in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.9 M€ EU funding: 3.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 530 k€ 1 September 2017 - 31 August 2021 |
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EASITrain: European Advanced Superconductivity Innovation and Training This EU funded research and training program will advance the understanding of the behaviour of superconductors under different operating conditions, will establish innovative production techniques and will improve the cost efficiency of cryogenic refrigeration systems as an enabler for large-scale deployment. The project will establish a training curriculum in superconductivity for qualified experts in Europe who can bring the technology to the market. Together with industry representatives, funding agencies and decision takers at national and international level, the project aims at drawing up an R&D and product development roadmap and assessing its valorisation potentials. Project internal page, Factsheet
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Project Officer (CERN): Johannes Gutleber Full costs of the project: 3.8 M€ EU funding: 3.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 265 k€ 1 October 2017 - 30 September 2021 |
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INSIGHTS: Advanced Statistical Methods for Particle Physics INSIGHTS will develop advanced statistical methods and apply them to current research in Particle Physics, and through this, to many areas of society. It will create a cohort of physicists with expertise in modern statistical methods and in doing so will establish collaborations and educational structures that will continue long into the future. The software and tools created to achieve these goals will be made available to researchers in and beyond the field of Particle Physics.
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Coordinator: RHUL, UK Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3 M€ EU funding: 3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 265 k€ 1 September 2017 - 31 August 2021 |
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INTENSE ITN: particle physics experiments at the intensity frontier Neutrinos come in three types or flavours: electron, muon and tau. They are known to oscillate in and out of the three flavours as they travel in space, but only further evidence will help scientists determine whether they also oscillate into a fourth type – a sterile neutrino. The EU-funded INTENSE project constitutes a new European training network between universities, research centres and industries. The project's researchers will take leading roles in the Short-Baseline Neutrino programme at Fermilab, which focusses on the search for the sterile neutrino. They will participate in the commissioning of the two particle detectors comprising this programme (Icarus and the Short-Baseline Near Detector) and develop new detector technologies, data acquisition and analysis techniques. Their endeavours will foster the development of cutting-edge technologies with spin-offs outside particle physics |
Coordinator: UniPisa, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Marzio Nessi Full costs of the project: EU funding: 2.6 M€ EU funding for CERN: 141 K€ 9 January 2020 - 31 August 2024 |
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LISA: Laser Ionization and Spectroscopy of Actinides LISA aims to train the next generation of atomic, nuclear and laser scientists by conducting research to increase our understanding of the atomic and nuclear properties of the chemical elements known as the actinides. Of long-standing interest to the fields of fundamental atomic and nuclear physics, this effort is an essential prerequisite for unravelling the structure of the superheavy elements at the end of the Mendeleev table. This knowledge is required for the effective production, identification and handling of these elements, and is thus a necessary foundation towards understanding and exploiting the potential for practical applications of the actinides in the fields of medical physics, nuclear applications and environmental monitoring. The project consortium of world-leading experts in radioactive ion beam research and applications, laser spectroscopy, scientific laser technologies (industrial partners) and nuclear and atomic theorists will recruit and train 15 doctoral students. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 4.2 M€ EU funding: 4.2 M€ EU funding for CERN: 562 k€ 1 November 2019 - 31 October 2023 |
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MEDICIS- produced radioisotope beams for medicine MEDICIS-PROMED aims to develop a network of academic, medical and industrial partners providing an extensive doctoral program to 11 ESRs and 4 Swiss-supported ESRs in the field of new personalized treatments using radioisotope beams, notably for treatment of the deadly ovarian cancer, exploiting the newly discovered tumour endothelial marker 1 (TEM1/endosialin) for targeting the cancerous tissues. In this scheme, CERN is the coordinating partner, and collaborates with local hospitals which are able to exploit short-lived isotopes produced in the newly constructed CERN-MEDICIS facility. It fits within an extended network of high-technology companies and leading academic research institutes which will design new components for the development or tests of innovative radiopharmaceuticals and imaging agents for personalized treatment. It brings world-class researchers together in the field of lasers and isotope mass separation, accelerators, material science, oncology, entrepreneurial radiopharmaceutical production, and imaging, to propose new solutions to the 2nd deadliest cancer for women. In addition, the network will benefit from the coaching of the pioneer of personalized PET-imaging aided carbon hadron therapy recently tested in Japan. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.8 M€ EU funding: 2.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 795 k€ 1 January 2015 - 31 December 2018 |
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OMA - Optimization of Medical Accelerators OMA joins universities, research centers and clinical facilities with industry partners to address the challenges in designing and optimizing cancer treatment facilities using radio therapy, in numerical simulations for the development of advanced treatment schemes, and in beam imaging and treatment monitoring. The proposed R&D program ranges from life sciences (oncology, cell and micro biology and medical imaging), physics and accelerator sciences, mathematics and IT, to engineering and it is hence ideally suited for an innovative training of early stage researchers.
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Coordinator: UNILIV, United Kingdom Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.8 M€ EU funding: 3.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 265 k€ 1 February 2016 - 31 January 2020 |
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RADSAGA: RADiation and Reliability Challenges for Electronics used in Space, for Aviation, at Ground and at Accelerators RADSAGA brings together industry, universities, laboratories and test-facilities to train young engineers, bachelors & masters in all aspects related to electronics which is exposed to radiation within the four major application areas: Space, Aviation, Ground and Accelerators where a fast moving field of technology development requires a change of paradigm in terms of radiation qualification of critical electronic components and systems.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.9 M€ EU funding: 3.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 724 k€ 1 March 2017 - 28 February 2021 |
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Smart Sensor Technologies and Training for Radiation Enhanced Applications and Measurements STREAM is a 4-year multi-site training network that aims at career development of Early Stage Researchers on scientific design, construction manufacturing and of advanced radiation instrumentation. STREAM targets the development of innovative radiation-hard, smart CMOS sensor technologies for scientific and industrial applications. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.8 M€ EU funding: 3.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 707 k€ 1 January 2016 - 31 December 2019 |
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SMARTHEP: Synergies between Machine leArning, Real Time analysis and Hybrid architectures for efficient Event Processing and decision making The focus of SMARTHEP is a central question in a data-rich environment: how to make the most of the available data to take decisions fast and efficiently, making the most of the available data. The main purpose of SMARTHEP is to train a new generation of inter-sector researchers and give them the tools to tackle this challenge, by processing large datasets in real- time, aided by Machine Learning and hybrid computing architectures. The results of SMARTHEP will benefit the HEP community in providing cutting edge technology and algorithms for the area of data selection (triggering) and particle detection, leading to precise measurement of the fundamental constituents of matter and enabling the discovery of new physics processes. |
Coordinator: ULUND, Sweden Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.2 M€ EU funding: 3.2 M€ EU funding for CERN: 281 k€ |
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
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E-JADE: Europe – Japan Accelerator Development Exchange Programme E-JADE aims to support staff exchange between European and Japanese institutions (KEK and University of Tokyo) in the area of future accelerators for particle physics. The goal is to progress on the design, R&D and prototyping of the future accelerator facilities, providing results on the timescale of the European Strategy update in 2018-2019 and providing input to the Japanese development projects in this area.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.6 M€ EU funding: 1.6 M€ EU funding for CERN: 580 k€ 1 January 2015 - 31 December 2018 |
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FEST: Future Experiments seek Smart Technologies A gas electron multiplier (GEM) is a type of gaseous ionisation detector used in particle physics. GEMs are one of the class of micropattern gaseous detectors, which includes micromegas and other technologies. Future detectors need improved production techniques to facilitate their industrialisation for other non-academic applications like security and medical imaging applications. The EU-funded FEST project will develop techniques for better production yield and reduced construction time, allowing also for a significant cost reduction. It will also perform Monte Carlo simulations of future experiments that will improve and update event generators to the new experimental scenarios. |
Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.1 M€ EU funding: 2.1 M€ EU funding for CERN: 5 k€ 1 January 2020 - 31 December 2023 |
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INTELUM: International and intersectoral mobility to develop advanced scintillating and Cerenkov fibre based detectors for the future high luminosity large hadron collider Currently, new concepts are being considered for hadron and jet calorimetry in high energy physics experiments, in order to improve the energy resolution of these detectors by a factor of at least two. This is a prerequisite for future studies at the high luminosity, large hadron collider as well as at future electron and proton colliders. Amongst the few concepts being proposed, scintillating and Čerenkov fibres are considered very promising candidates.The INTELUM project will be a 4 year project funding international, industry-academia exchanges to develop micro-pulling-down crystal growth and other new types of fibre technology. This new fibre production technology has the potential to enable fast, low-cost, manufacture of heavy crystal scintillating fibres. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1 M€ EU funding: 922 k€ EU funding for CERN: 252 k€ 1 March 2015 - 28 February 2019 |
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INTENSE: particle physics experiments at the high intensity frontier, from new physics to spin-offs. A cooperative Europe - United States - Japan effort INTENSE promotes the collaboration among European, US and Japanese researchers involved in the most important particle physics research projects at the high intensity frontier. The observation of neutrino oscillations established a picture consistent with the mixing of three neutrino flavors with three mass eigenstates and small mass differences. Various key parameters of this oscillation measurements provide, if measured with high precision, new physics observables. Experimental anomalies point to the presence of sterile neutrino states participating in the mixing and not coupling to fermions. Lepton mixings and massive neutrinos offer a gateway to deviations from the Standard Model in the lepton sector including Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV). A new generation of modern and large neutrino detectors open new frontiers in the search for proton decay and understanding of the dynamics of super novae explosions. INTENSE also promotes multidisciplinary collaboration through “muography” which uses cosmic-ray muons to image the interior of large targets, including volcanoes, glaciers and archaeological sites. |
Coordinator: University of Pisa, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project:2.1 M€ EU funding: 2.1 M€ EU funding for CERN: 83 k€ 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2022 |
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InvisiblesPlus is addressing the neutrinos and dark matter properties at large, their interfaces and the connections of their particle/antiparticle asymmetries with those of the visible universe. The project, coordinated by the Autonomous University of Madrid, will also complement, continue and extend the knowledge sharing and collaboration of the ITN Invisibles project.
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Coordinator: UAM, Spain Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.3 M€ EU funding: 2 M€ EU funding for CERN: 130 k€ 1 February 2016 - 31 January 2020 |
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Implementation and application of the new generation of pseudo-random number generators based on Kolmogorov-Anosov K-systems MIXMAX aims to develop and test a new class of pseudorandom number generators, with the strongest mathematical underpinnings coming from the theory of Ergodic systems, for use in Monte-Carlo simulations. |
Coordinator: Demokritos, Greece Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 360 k€ EU funding: 252 k€ EU funding for CERN: 18 k€ 1 January 2015 - 31 December 2018 |
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NEWS: NEw WindowS on the universe and technological advancements from trilateral EU-US-Japan collaboration NEWS promotes the collaboration between European, US and Japanese research institutions in some key areas of fundamental physics. LIGO and Virgo collaborations have built the largest gravitational wave observatories and exploit the propagation of light and spacetime to detect gravitational waves and probe their sources. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) collaboration operates a gamma-ray telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope mission and has revolutionized our view of the gamma-ray Universe. Fermi is the reference all-sky gamma-ray monitor for the follow-up searches for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources. New-generation space telescopes will measure the polarization of X-rays from the cosmic sources and probe the laws of physics under extreme conditions of gravitational and electromagnetic fields. A complementary approach to probe the Universe is provided by particle accelerators built in laboratories. FNAL will provide the cleanest probes for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The Muon (g-2) experiment will measure the muon anomalous magnetic moment with unprecedented precision. Mu2e will search for the neutrinoless coherent muon conversion to an electron in the Coulomb field of a nucleus, which would be the unambiguous evidence of new, unknown, physics. These endeavors require innovative detectors and cutting-edge technologies that NEWS will develop to open new “windows” in fundamental physics. |
Coordinator: INFN, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.5 M€ EU funding: 1.5 M€ EU funding for CERN: 54 k€ 1 July 2017 - 31 June 2021 |
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PROBES: Probes of new physics and technological advancements from particle and gravitational wave physics PROBES will explore elusive aspects of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and the Standard Model of Cosmology (SMC) and search for new physics exploiting particle accelerators and gravitational wave (GW) interferometers. Several low-energy aspects of quark-gluon interactions still remain a challenge, like the mechanism of color confinement, which accounts for 99% of the mass of standard matter of the Universe, and the equation of state (EoS) of ultradense matter, fundamental for the study of compact stars. Joint EM-GW-neutrino observations could probe astrophysical sources and constrain physics under extreme conditions of electromagnetic and gravitational fields. The collaboration with world-class laboratories in US and Asia will open new career prospects for the participants. |
Coordinator: INFN, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2 M€ EU funding: 2 M€ EU funding for CERN: 73 k€ 1 July 2021 - 30 June 2025 |
Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)
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COFUND-CERN-2014 This project offers COFUND Fellowships in the form of three-year CERN Fellow appointments, out of which at least two years will be spent at CERN. Mobility of COFUND fellows will be enhanced through the opportunity to spend up to one third of the fellowship in external institutions. Working on frontier research and technology projects and profiting from the unique facilities available at CERN, the Fellows will deepen their knowledge in their own field, acquire international visibility and reputation and ultimately enhance their career prospects. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Full costs of the project: 6.3 M€ EU funding: 6.3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 6.3 M€ 1 October 2015 - 30 September 2020 |
Future and emerging technologies
Future and emerging technologies (FET)
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DEEP-EST: DEEP - Extreme Scale Technologies DEEP-EST will create a first incarnation of the Modular Supercomputer Architecture (MSA) and demonstrate its benefits. In the spirit of the DEEP and DEEP-ER projects, the MSA integrates compute modules with different performance characteristics into a single heterogeneous system. Each module is a parallel, clustered system of potentially large size. MSA brings substantial benefits for heterogeneous applications/workflows: each part can be run on an exactly matching system, improving time to solution and energy use. This is ideal for supercomputer centres running heterogeneous application mixes (higher throughput and energy efficiency). It also offers valuable flexibility to the compute providers, allowing the set of modules and their respective size to be tailored to actual usage. |
Coordinator: JUELICH, Germany Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 15.8 M€ EU funding: 15 M€ EU funding for CERN: 380 k€ 1 July 2017 - 30 June 2020 |
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FuSuMaTech: Future Superconducting Magnet Technology The FuSuMatech Initiative aims at establishing a strong and sustainable R&D&I European network for structuring and strenghtening the field of superconductivity and associated industrial applications. It will enlarge the innovative potential especially in High Field NMR and MRI, opening future breakthroughs in the brain observation.
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Coordinator: CEA, France Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 501 k€ EU funding: 501 k€ EU funding for CERN: 35 k€ 1 November 2017 - 30 April 2019 |
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Gamma MRI: the future of molecular imaging Gamma-MRI will develop a clinical molecular imaging device based on the physical principle of anisotropic gamma emission from hyperpolarised metastable xenon. Gamma-MRI is a game-changer imaging technology, combining the high sensitivity of gamma ray detection and the high resolution and flexibility of MRI, bringing down by multiple fold the cost of molecular imaging. Six closely interlinked work packages will cover: production of hyperpolarised gamma-emitting xenon isomers; preserving hyperpolarisation until delivery to targeted organ; developing advanced image acquisition and reconstruction using physics- and artificial intelligence- based approaches; designing and assembling the prototype upon a low field versatile magnet; and implementing the first preclinical Gamma-MRI brain imaging experiment. |
Coordinator: HES-SO, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.3 M€ EU funding: 3.3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 243 k€ 1 April 2021 - 31 March 2024 |
European Research Infrastructures
INFRADEV
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BrightnESS: Building a research infrastructure and synergies for highest scientific impact on ESS Thermal neutrons are one of the most powerful probes that look directly at the structure and dynamics of materials from the macro- to the microscopic scale and from nano-seconds to seconds. 17 European Partner Countries have joined together to construct the world’s most powerful neutron source, the European Spallation Source (ESS). Simply constructing the ESS will not, by itself, ensure the maximum scientific or technological impact. What is needed is an integrated program that ensures that key challenges are met in order to build an ESS that can deliver high impact scientific and technological knowledge. With a timeline of 36 months, BrightnESS will ensure that (A) the extensive knowledge and skills of European companies, and institutes, are best deployed in the form of In-Kind Contributions to ESS for its construction and operation, (B) that technology transfer both to, and from, the ESS to European institutions and companies is optimised and, (C) that the maximum technical performance is obtained from the ESS target, moderators and detectors in order to deliver world class science and insights for materials technology and innovation. |
Coordinator: ESS, Sweden Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 20 M€ EU funding: 20 M€ EU funding for CERN: 715 k€ 1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018 |
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CompactLight (XLS): X-band Light Source XLS aims to facilitate the widespread development of X-ray FEL facilities across Europe and beyond, by making them more affordable to construct and operate through an optimum combination of emerging and innovative accelerator technologies. Diverse advances including high-gradient linac technology, advanced undulators, low-emittance electron sources, and advanced beam dynamics tools and developments will be brought together to achieve the XLS objectives.
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Coordinator: Elettra, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.5 M€ EU funding: 3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 303 k€ 1 January 2018 - 31 December 2020 |
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EuroCirCol: European Circular Energy-Frontier Collider Study EuroCirCol is a conceptual design study in preparation for a post-LHC accelerator in Europe, i.e. the FCC (Future Circular Collider). The project will study different scenarios and assess the feasibility of key technologies needed for a new 100 TeV energy-frontier circular collider through a collaboration of institutes and universities worldwide. The main outcome of EuroCirCol will be laying the foundation of an ambitious post-LHC machine that will strengthen Europe’s position as a focal point of global research cooperation and a leader in frontier knowledge and technologies over the next decades.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 10 M€ EU funding: 3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 138 k€ 1 June 2015 - 31 December 2019 |
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ESSnuSB: Feasibility study for employing the uniquely powerful ESS linear accelerator to generate an intense neutrino beam for leptonic CP violation discovery and measurement ESSnuSB Design Study aims to prepare the ground for a neutrino facility in Europe to address the explanation for the existence of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the leptonic sector. The reasons behind the existence of this asymmetry will help to understand the antimatter disappearance in the Universe. The project will cover the feasibility of the required upgrade of the ESS proton linear accelerator currently under construction and the design and performance of the required accumulation ring, the neutrino facility target station and the near and far detectors.
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Coordinator: CNRS, France Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 4.6 M€ EU funding: 3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 64 k€ 1 January 2018 - 31 December 2021 |
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FCCIS: Future Circular Collider Innovation Study FCCIS will deliver a conceptual design and an implementation plan for a new research infrastructure, consisting of a 100 km long, circular tunnel and a dozen surface sites. It will initially host an electron-positron particle collider. With an energy frontier hadron collider as a second step, it can serve a world-wide community through the end of the 21st century. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 7.4 M€ EU funding: 3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 0 k€ 2 November 2020 - 1 November 2024 |
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ICEDIG: Innovation and consolidation for large scale digitisation of natural heritage Modern science requires digital access to data. European collections account for 55% of the natural sciences collections globally, holding more than 1 billion objects, which represent 80% of the world’s bio- and geo-diversity. Only around 10% of these have been digitally catalogued and 1-2% imaged, rendering their information underused. This challenge is being tackled by the new ESFRI initiative Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo). DiSSCo will unify access to collection data in a harmonised and integrated manner across Europe. Building on previous project outputs, community and industrial expertise, the ICEDIG project will design all the technical, financial, policy and governance aspects for developing and operating DiSSCo. The outputs will be prototypes, blueprints, novel workflows, new industry partnerships, and citizen involvement models, paving the way for the successful construction of the DiSSCo research infrastructure.
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Coordinator: UEF, Finland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3 M€ EU funding: 3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 30 k€ 1 January 2018 - 31 March 2020 |
INFRAIA
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AIDA-2020: Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators AIDA-2020 brings together 38 partners from 19 countries. The project aims to advance detector technologies beyond current limits for the benefit of thousands of researchers participating in the LHC High-Luminosity Upgrade, linear collider efforts and future neutrino projects, and to enhance the coordination within the European detector community, leveraging EU and national resources. AIDA-2020 will also exploit the innovation potential of detector R&D by engaging with European industry for large-scale production of detector systems and by developing applications outside of particle physics, e.g. for medical imaging.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Konrad Elsener Full costs of the project: 29 M€ EU funding: 10 M€ EU funding for CERN: 2.3 M€ 1 May 2015 - 30 April 2020 |
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ARIES: Accelerator Research and Innovation for European Science and Society The main goals of ARIES are linked to developing and demonstrating novel concepts and further improving existing accelerator technologies, providing European researchers and industry with access to top-class accelerator research and test infrastructures, enlarging and further integrating the accelerator community in Europe, and developing a joint strategy towards sustainable accelerator S&T. ARIES brings together 41 beneficiaries from 18 countries: accelerator laboratories, technology institutes, universities and industrial partners (7 industrial partners, including two SMEs and one association). Innovation will be fostered by joint co-development programmes with industry, by supporting innovative technologies with market potential, and by advancing concepts and designs for medical, industrial and environmental applications of accelerators for the wide benefit of European science and society.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 24.7 M€ EU funding: 10 M€ EU funding for CERN: 2 M€ 1 May 2017 - 30 April 2022
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ENSAR2: European Nuclear Science and Applications Research - 2 ENSAR2 is the integrating activity for European nuclear scientists who are performing research in the following subfields: Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Tools and Applications. As part of ENSAR2, access will be provided to 11 facilities: GANIL-SPIRAL2 (F), joint LNL-LNS (I), CERN-ISOLDE (CH), JYFL (FI), ALTO (F), GSI (D), KVI-CART (NL), NLC (P), IFIN-HH/ELI-NP (RO) and to the theoretical physics facility: ECT (I). These accelerators provide stable and radioactive ion beams of excellent qualities ranging in energies from tens of keV/u to a few GeV/u.
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Coordinator: GANIL, France Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 10 M€ EU funding: 10 M€ EU funding for CERN: 1 M€ 1 March 2016 - 29 February 2020 |
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BiCIKL: Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library BiCIKL is a proposal that will initiate and build a new European starting community of key research infrastructures, establishing open science practices in the domain of biodiversity through provision of access to data, associated tools and services at (1) each separate stage of, and (2) along the entire research cycle. BiCIKL will provide new methods and workflows for an integrated access to harvesting, liberating, linking, accessing and re-using of sub-article-level data (specimens, material citations, samples, sequences, taxonomic names, taxonomic treatments, figures, tables) extracted from literature. BiCIKL will provide for the first time access and tools for seamless linking and usage tracking of data along the line: specimens → sequences → species → analytics → publications → biodiversity knowledge graph → re-use.
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Coordinator: Pensoft Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 5 M€ EU funding: 5 M€ EU funding for CERN: 137 k€ 1 May 2021 - 30 April 2024 |
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HITRIplus: Heavy Ion Therapy Research Integration plus The goal HITRIplus is to integrate and propel biophysics and medical research on cancer treatment with heavy ions beams while jointly developing its sophisticated instruments.
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Coordinator: CNAO, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 9 M€ EU funding: 5 M€ EU funding for CERN: 342 k€ 1 April 2021 - 31 March 2025 |
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PRISMAP - The European medical isotope programme: Production of high purity isotopes by mass separation PRISMAP proposes to federate the key European intense neutron sources, isotope mass separation facilities, and high-power accelerators and cyclotrons, together with leading biomedical research institutes and hospitals active in the translation of the emerging radionuclides into medical diagnosis and treatment. It will create a sustainable source of high purity grade new radionuclides and a single entry-point for a fragmented user community, distributed amongst universities, research centres, industry and hospitals. It is thus striving to create a paradigm shift in the early-phase research on radiopharmaceuticals, targeted drugs for cancer, theranostics, and personalised medicine in Europe, inspired from a similar program, the NIDC, already launched by the Department of Energy in the USA. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 5 M€ EU funding: 5 M€ EU funding for CERN: 1 M€ 1 March 2021 - 28 February 2025 |
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STRONG-2020: The strong interactions at the frontier of knowledge - fundamental research and applications The strong interaction is one of the cornerstones of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, and its experimental and theoretical study attracts an active community of about 2500 researchers in Europe. The list of fundamental open questions at the frontier of our current knowledge in the strong interaction is very rich and varied including a full understanding of (i) the partonic structure of hadrons, (ii) exotic hadronic states, properties of (iii) dense quark matter and of (iv) hot and dense quark-gluon plasma, as well as (v) precision tests of the SM. The STRONG-2020 project brings together many of the leading research groups and infrastructures involved today in the study of the strong interaction in Europe, and also exploits the innovation potential in applied research through the development of detector systems with applications beyond fundamental physics, e.g. for medical imaging and information technology. More information about the Transnational Access to CERN in the framework of the STRONG-2020 project can be found here.
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Coordinator: CNRS, France Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 10 M€ EU funding: 10 M€ EU funding for CERN: 200 k€ 1 June 2019 - 31 May 2023
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RADNEXT: RADiation facility Network for the EXploration of effects for indusTry and research New applications in aerospace, automotive, Internet-of-Things, nuclear dismantling and medicine, among others, require innovative, streamlined and coordinated radiation testing methodologies for state-of-the-art microelectronics. While some exceptions exist, Europe does not count with a coordinated network of cost-effective testing facilities to support innovators, who find it difficult to access facilities and related expertise. The RADNEXT project aims to optimise the access of component engineers, system developers and radiation effects scientists to irradiation facilities, where representative conditions of their final application are reproduced, and that can deliver satisfactory validation for the end-users. This access will be based on a network of facilities, suitable for a very broad range of environments and applications, and with a common entry-point, where users can define, prepare, execute and analyse their irradiation campaigns. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 9 M€ EU funding: 5 M€ EU funding for CERN: 850 k€ 1 June 2021 - 30 May 2025 |
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CREMLIN: Connecting Russian and European Measures for Large-scale Research Infrastructures CREMLIN aims at fostering scientific cooperation between the Russian Federation and the European Union in the development and scientific exploitation of large-scale research infrastructures. It has been triggered by the recent so-called megascience projects initiative launched by and in the Russian Federation which is now very actively seeking European integration. The proposed megascience facilities have an enormous potential for the international scientific communities and represent a unique opportunity for the EU to engage in a strong collaborative framework with the Russian Federation. CREMLIN will effectively contribute to better connect Russian RIs to the European Research Area.
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Coordinator: DESY, Germany Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.7 M€ EU funding: 1.7 M€ EU funding for CERN: 76 k€ 1 September 2015 - 31 August 2018 |
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EURIZON: European network for developing new horizons for RIs The EU funded EURIZON project focuses on European scientific and technical collaboration in the field of research infrastructures (RIs). It aims at strengthening the RI landscape in Europe. EURIZON is in fact the second phase of a four-year Horizon 2020 project that started in February 2020, under the name CREMLINplus, and which had a focus on strengthening collaboration between Europe and Russia in the domain of RIs. The CERN participation within EURIZON focuses on software development for future lepton colliders and on a school about particle detectors.
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Coordinator: DESY, Germany Scientist in Charge from CERN: Lucie Linssen Full costs of the project: 25 M€ EU funding: 25 M€ EU funding for CERN: 321 k€ 1 February 2020 – 31 July 2024 |
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Opening Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East OPEN SESAME aims to ensure efficient exploitation of the Synchrotron light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) large-scale research infrastructure by researchers across the SESAME Members and further afield in the Middle East. OPEN SESAME has three key objectives: 1) to train SESAME staff in the storage ring and beamline instrumentation technology, research techniques and administration for optimal use of a modern light source facility; 2) to build-up human capacity in SESAME Region researchers to optimally exploit SESAME’s infrastructure; 3) to train SESAME staff and its user community in public outreach and corporate communications, and to support SESAME and its stakeholders in building awareness and demonstrating its socio-economic impact to assure longer term exploitation.
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Coordinator: ESRF, France Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.1 M€ EU funding: 2 M€ EU funding for CERN: 100 k€ 1 January 2017 - 31 December 2019 |
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QUACO: QUAdrupoleCOrrector QUACO is a Pre-Commercial Procurement project for the design, R&D and industrial prototyping of high-tech quadrupole magnets that will be used for focusing the beams for the high luminosity upgrade of the LHC. QUACO is coordinated by CERN and brings together 3 other research infrastructures (CEA, CIEMAT and NCBJ) who will contribute to the magnet development and public procurement.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 6.6 M€ EU funding: 4.6 M€ EU funding for CERN: 3.9 M€ 1 Mar 2016 - 31 Mar 2021 |
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RI-PATHS: Charting Impact Pathways of Investment in Research Infrastructures The aim of the project is to develop a model describing the socio-economic impact of research infrastructures and of their related financial investments. The model will be developed in a modular manner adapting it to a broad range of scientific domains and types of infrastructures. The project outcomes are expected to contribute to a common approach at international level and facilitate investments in research infrastructures by funding agencies and other stakeholders.
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Coordinator: EFIS Centre, Belgium Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.5 M€ EU funding: 1.5 M€ EU funding for CERN: 124 k€ 1 Jan 2018 - 30 Jun 2020 |
INFRAINNOV
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AIDAinnova: Advancement and Innovation for Detectors at Accelerators Discoveries in particle physics are technology-driven; AIDAinnova will provide state-of-the-art upgrades to research infrastructures, such as test beams, in order to unfold the scientific potential of detector technologies. Due to the need for highly specialised detector equipment, often in industrial-scale numbers, the project will involve nine industrial companies, three RTOs (Research and Technology Organisations) and 34 academic institutions in 15 countries, in co-innovation for common detector projects, strengthening the competence and competitiveness of the industrial partners in other markets. The project has a focus on near- and medium-term future projects, as outlined in the European Strategy Update, published in May 2020.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 22.2 M€ EU funding: 10.0 M€ EU funding for CERN: 2.6 M€ 1 April 2021 - 31 March 2025 |
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ATTRACT: breAkThrough innovaTion pRogrAmme for a pan-European Detection and Imaging eCosysTem The ATTRACT Phase-1 project proposes a new collaboration paradigm aligned with the ‘Open Science, Open Innovation and Open to the World’ philosophy. Its objective is the identification and initial development of breakthrough detection and imaging technology concepts for expanding fundamental research frontiers and suitable for future industrial upscaling for novel applications and business. It promotes the involvement of national and pan-European Research Infrastructures and their associated research communities, industrial organizations (especially SMEs) and innovation and business specialists. It proposes a co-innovation approach in which scientific and industrial communities jointly pursue and generate breakthrough concepts in close and equal partnership. The project implementation starts with the launch of an Open Call by the project consortium for €18 million of financial support to Third-Parties. The proposals received will be peer-reviewed by an Independent R&D&I Committee of top experts in the field of detection and imaging technologies. After this process 180 breakthrough technology concepts will receive €100,000 of seed funding each (“lump sum”) to develop the concepts further during one year. The funded projects will then present their results in a Final Assessment Conference in Brussels. The ATTRACT Phase-1 consortium members will provide business assessments to the funded project teams to enhance awareness of future commercial applications. Furthermore, two pilots based on design thinking methodologies will be run for/ with interdisciplinary master level students, aimed at discovering and generating social value applications inspired by the technologies of the funded projects. The ATTRACT Phase-1 project consortium comprises top partners capable of catalysing a large variety of key stakeholders towards a future unique European innovation ecosystem. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 20 M€ EU funding: 20 M€ EU funding for CERN: 877 K€ 1 August 2018- 31 December 2020
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AMICI: Accelerator and Magnet Infrastructure for Cooperation and Innovation AMICI is supported by 10 Research laboratories who are contributing to the construction of Research Infrastructures in Europe. The objective of the AMICI project is to engage the Technological Infrastructure which is currently dedicated to European science-based accelerators and large SC magnets with a new, efficient and sustainable collaboration/production model by means of Cooperation and Innovation. By establishing an open Technological Infrastructure with European industry and SMEs, research laboratories would enhance the competence of their industrial partners by training personnel and sharing know-how to increase the impact of industry on the construction of future Research Infrastructures.
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Coordinator: CEA, France Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.3 M€ EU funding: 2.3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 200 k€ 1 January 2017 - 30 June 2019 |
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ATTRACT Phase 2: Breakthrough Innovation programme for a pan-European Detection and Imaging Ecoosystem ATTRACT brings together Europe’s fundamental research institutions and industrial communities to lead the next generation of detection and imaging technologies. During Phase-1, 170 breakthrough ideas received funding and their results were presented at the ATTRACT Conference, held virtually, but based in Brussels. Building up on the success of the previous stage, ATTRACT Phase-2 will fund the most promising technology concepts for scientific, industrial and societal applications, aiming to raise their Technology Readiness Level towards the market. Phase-2 will also scale up its support to young innovators, offering 400 of them (rather than the 100 of Phase-1 ) the opportunity to prototype their solutions based on the technology of ATTRACT-funded projects; deliver a first-of-its-kind socio-economic study of an innovation ecosystem in the making; and undertake serious efforts to address public and private stakeholders in exploring potential models to streamline innovation funding.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 35 M€ EU funding: 35 M€ EU funding for CERN: 28.6 M€ 1 February 2021 - 31 January 2025 |
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I.FAST: Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Technology Particle accelerators currently face critical challenges related to the size and performance of future facilities for fundamental research, to the increasing demands coming from accelerators for applied science, and to the growing applications in medicine and industry. The I.FAST project aims to enhance innovation in the particle accelerator community, mapping out and facilitating the development of breakthrough technologies common to multiple accelerator platforms. The project will involve 49 partners, including 17 industrial companies as co-innovation partners, to explore new alternative accelerator concepts and advanced prototyping of key technologies. These include, among others, new accelerator designs and concepts, advanced superconducting technologies for magnets and cavities, techniques to increase brightness of synchrotron light sources, strategies and technologies to improve energy efficiency, and new societal applications of accelerators. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 18.6 M€ EU funding: 10 M€ EU funding for CERN: 2. 9 M€ 1 May 2021 - 30 April 2025 |
e-infrastructures
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AARC: Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration The goal of AARC is to address technical and functional gaps that prevent the interoperability of existing R&E AAIs. The objectives of the project are to deliver the design of an integrated cross-discipline AAI framework, built on federated access production services (eduGAIN); to increase the uptake of federated access within different research communities; to pilot critical components of the proposed integrated AAI where existing production services do not address user needs; to validate the results of both the JRA and SA by engaging with the research communities.
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Coordinator: TERENA, Netherlands Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.9 M€ EU funding: 2.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 192 k€ 1 May 2015 – 30 April 2017 |
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AARC2: Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration 2 AARC2 aims to address policy and technical interoperability gaps that prevent R&E users from accessing the whole e-infrastructure service portfolio with one login, regardless of where this takes place in the ecosystem. AARC2 builds on the requirements gathered during the AARC project interviewing different e-infrastructures and ESFRI projects. AARC2 will extend the project by focusing on community-driven use-cases and offering a comprehensive training suite to disseminate AARC expertise. |
Coordinator: GÉANT, The Netherlands Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.9 M€ EU funding: 2.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 250 k€ 1 May 2017 – 30 April 2019 |
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EGI-Engage: Engaging the EGI Community towards an Open Science Commons Over the last decade, the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) has built a distributed computing and data infrastructure to support over 21,000 researchers from many disciplines with unprecedented data analysis capabilities. The mission of EGI-Engage is to accelerate the implementation of the Open Science Commons vision, where researchers from all disciplines have easy and open access to the innovative digital services, data, knowledge and expertise they need for their work. EGI-Engage will expand the capabilities offered to scientists (e.g. improved cloud or data services) and the spectrum of its user base by engaging with large Research Infrastructures (RIs), the long-tail of science and industry/SMEs.
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Coordinator: EGI, Netherlands Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 8.6 M€ EU funding: 8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 81 k€ 1 March 2015 – 31 August 2017 |
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EOSC-hub: Integrating and managing services for the European Open Science Cloud The EOSC-hub brings together multiple service providers to create the Hub: a single contact point for European researchers and innovators to discover, access, use and reuse a broad spectrum of resources for advanced data-driven research. For researchers, this will mean a broader access to services supporting their scientific discovery and collaboration across disciplinary and geographical boundaries. The project mobilises providers from the EGI Federation, EUDAT CDI, INDIGO-DataCloud and other major European research infrastructures to deliver a common catalogue of research data, services and software for research. EOSC-hub collaborates closely with GÉANT and the EOSCpilot and OpenAIRE-Advance projects to deliver a consistent service offer for research communities across Europe.
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Coordinator: EGI, Netherlands Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 33 M€ EU funding: 30 M€ EU funding for CERN: 392 k€ 1 January 2018 – 31 December 2020 |
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EUDAT2020 brings together a consortium of e-infrastructure providers, research infrastructure operators, and researchers from a wide range of scientific disciplines under several of the ESFRI themes, working together to address the new data challenge. EUDAT2020’s vision is to enable European researchers and practitioners from any research discipline to preserve, find, access, and process data in a trusted environment, as part of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) conceived as a network of collaborating, cooperating centres, combining the richness of numerous community-specific data repositories with the permanence and persistence of some of Europe’s largest scientific data centres. EUDAT2020 builds on the foundations laid by the first EUDAT project, strengthening the links between the CDI and expanding its functionalities and remit. |
Coordinator: CSC, Finland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 19 M€ EU funding: 18.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 669 k€ 1 March 2015 – 28 February 2018 |
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FREYA aims at supporting the European Commission vision of the three Os: Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World to enable everyone - from the research community to laymen - to profit from research outputs. FREYA exploits and extends the concepts of Persistent Identifiers to build a trusted and linked layer connecting researchers, their outputs and their institutions, within, and beyond, the European Open Science Cloud. In order to do so, the project will lay the foundations for a PID Graph, PID Forum and PID Commons which will be developed, operated and governed in an open and sustainable fashion.
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Coordinator: STFC, UK Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 5 M€ EU funding: 5 M€ EU funding for CERN: 826 k€ 1 December 2017 – 30 November 2020 |
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GN4-3 Research and Education Networking - GÉANT The GN4 Phase 3 Network will implement a very ambitious restructuring of the backbone network operated by GÉANT in order to provide equal access to clouds and other e-infrastructure services in the European research area and beyond. It will improve the overall resilience and reliability of the GÉANT network significantly and offer a base for future improvements in access, transmission speeds and capacity wherever needed.
GN4-3’s vision is to become the European Communications Commons – driving knowledge creation as the global hub for research networking excellence. Its mission is to deliver world-class services with the highest levels of operational excellence. The services in this area of GN4-3 are operated and developed in accordance with user requirements as they need to adapt to the increasingly integrated e-infrastructure environment necessary for supporting the European research community. |
Coordinator: GEANT, The Netherlands Scientist in Charge from CERN: Hanna Short Full costs of the project: 118 M€ EU funding: 77 M€ EU funding for CERN: 276 K€ 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2022 |
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INDIGO-DataCloud: INtegrating Distributed data Infrastructures for Global ExplOitation The INDIGO-DataCloud project aims at developing a data/computing platform targeted at scientific communities, deployable on multiple hardware, and provisioned over hybrid (private or public) e-infrastructures. This platform will be built by leading European developers, resource providers, e-infrastructures and scientific communities in order to ensure its successful exploitation and sustainability.The project aims at developing tools and platforms based on open source solutions addressing scientific challenges in the Cloud computing, storage and network areas.
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Coordinator: INFN, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 11 M€ EU funding: 11 M€ EU funding for CERN: 306 k€ 1 April 2015 – 30 September 2017 |
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Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe towards 2020 OpenAIRE2020 will continue, extend and intensify the activities of the existing OpenAIRE infrastructure. It will provide support and services for the H2020 Open Access (OA) policies, for both publications and data, and it will engage with other national funders and infrastructures so as to provide the European Open Access infrastructure.
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Coordinator: NKUA, Greece Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 13 M€ EU funding: 13 M€ EU funding for CERN: 464 k€ 1 January 2015 – 30 June 2018 |
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OpenAIRE- Connect will introduce and implement the concept of Open Science as a Service (OSaaS) on top of the existing OpenAIRE infrastructure1, by delivering out-of-the-box, on-demand deployable tools in support of Open Science. OpenAIRE-Connect will realize and operate two OSaaS services. The first will serve research communities to (i) publish research artefacts (packages and links), and (ii) monitor their research impact. The second will engage and mobilize content providers, and serve them with services enabling notification-based exchange of research artefacts, to leverage their transition towards Open Science paradigms. Both services will be served on-demand according to the OSaaS approach, hence be re-usable by different disciplines and providers, each with different practices and maturity levels, so as to favor a shift towards a uniform cross-community and cross-content provider scientific communication ecosystem. The resulting services will be based on TRL8 technology developed and deployed on the production system of the existing OpenAIRE infrastructure, completing currently deployed TRL6 service software, and extending OpenAIRE’s TRL9 production services.
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Coordinator: CNR, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.9 M€ EU funding: 1.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 69 k€ 1 January 2017 – 30 June 2019 |
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OpenAIRE-Advance: OpenAIRE Advancing Open Scholarship OpenAIRE-Advance continues the mission of OpenAIRE to support the Open Access/Open Data mandates in Europe. By sustaining the current successful infrastructure, comprised of a human network and robust technical services, it consolidates its achievements while working to shift the momentum among its communities to Open Science, aiming to be a trusted e-Infrastructure within the realms of the European Open Science Cloud. In this next phase, OpenAIRE-Advance strives to empower its National Open Access Desks (NOADs) so they become a pivotal part within their own national data infrastructures, positioning OA and open science onto national agendas.
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Coordinator: NKUA, Greece Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 10 M€ EU funding: 10 M€ EU funding for CERN: 494 k€ 1 January 2018 – 31 December 2020 |
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THOR: Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research THOR will support the H2020 goal to make every researcher ‘digital’ and increase creativity and efficiency of research, while bridging the R&D divide between developed and less-developed regions.THOR will allow data-management and curation services to exploit knowledge of data location and attribution; provide robust and persistent mechanism for linking literature and data; enable search and resolving services and generate incentives for Open Science; deliver provenance and attribution mechanisms to underpin data exchange; and provide minting and resolving services for data citation workflows. Its impact will enable third-party services, no-profit and commercial, to leverage the scholarly record.
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Coordinator: British Library, UK Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.4 M€ EU funding: 3.4 M€ EU funding for CERN: 854 k€ 1 June 2015 - 30 November 2017 |
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XDC: eXtreme DataCloud The XDC project will develop scalable technologies for federating storage resources and managing data in highly distributed computing environments. The services provided will be capable of operating at the unprecedented scale required by the most demanding, data intensive, research experiments in Europe and worldwide. The targeted platforms are the current and next generation e-Infrastructures deployed in Europe, such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) and the computing infrastructures funded by the H2020 EINFRA-12 call. The main high-level topics addressed by the project include: federation of storage resources with standard protocols, smart caching solutions, policy driven data management based on Quality of Service, data lifecycle management, metadata handling and manipulation, data pre-processing and encryption during ingestion, optimized data management based on access patterns. The XDC software will be released as Open Source platforms available for general exploitation.
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Coordinator: INFN, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.1 M€ EU funding: 3.1 M€ EU funding for CERN: 506 k€ 1 November 2017 - 31 January 2020 |
INFRAEOSC
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Interactive and agile/responsive sharing mesh of storage, data and applications for EOSC CS3MESH4EOSC implements a service for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) with a built-in sustainability model using the on-premise service delivery by utilizing existing key technology enablers: Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) standardized protocol and EduGAIN service. It consolidates and integrates the existing application ecosystem by promoting vendorneutral APIs and protocols following the open-source strategy for delivering services - a platform for a thriving application ecosystem in EOSC. CS3MESH4EOSC empowers service providers in delivering state-of-the-art, connected infrastructure to boost effective scientific collaboration across the entire federation and data sharing according to FAIR principles. The project delivers the core of a scientific and educational infrastructure for cloud storage services in Europe through a lightweight federation of existing sync/share services and integration with multidisciplinary application workflows.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 5.9 M€ EU funding: 5.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 1.6 M€ 1 January 2020 - 31 December 2022 |
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EGI-ACE: EGI Advanced Computing for EOSC EGI-ACE empowers researchers from all disciplines to collaborate in data- and compute-intensive research across borders through free at point of use services. Building on the distributed computing integration in EOSC-hub, it delivers the EOSC Compute Platform and contributes to the EOSC Data Commons through a federation of Cloud compute and storage facilities, PaaS services and data spaces with analytics tools and federated access services. |
Coordinator: EGI, Netherlands Scientist in Charge from CERN: Bob Jones Full costs of the project: 12 M€ EU funding: 8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 81 K€ 1 January 2021 - 30 June 2023 |
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EOSC Future EOSC Future will unlock the potential of European research via a vision of Open Science for Society by (1) bringing all major stakeholders in the EOSC ecosystem together under one project umbrella to break the disciplinary and community silos and consolidate key EOSC project outputs, (2) developing scientific use cases in collaboration with the thematic communities showcasing the benefits and societal value of EOSC for doing excellent and interdisciplinary research, (3) engaging the wider EOSC community and increasing the visibility of EOSC through communications campaigns, marketing strategies, and physical and online engagement events, and (4) including the EOSC community in developing the EOSC Portal (including the long tail of science, public and private sectors, and international partners) via co-creation open calls. |
Coordinator: TGB, Belgium Scientist in Charge from CERN: Bob Jones Full costs of the project: 41 M€ EU funding: 39 M€ EU funding for CERN: 550 K€ |
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EOSCsecretariat.eu will deliver an EOSC Secretariat that is a proactive, dynamic and flexible organisational structure with all the necessary competences, resources and vision to match the ambition of the call "Support to the EOSC Governance". The 30-month project will maintain a practical approach addressing all the specific needs of the coordination structure required for the EOSC. The outputs of EOSCsecretariat.eu include: Secretariat organisational structure, processes & procedures, rules & legal framework; business models; press & media office; pan-European awareness increase; open consultation; knowledge base; coordination services to WGs; coordination with EOSC-related projects; organisation & support to Boards & events; two Stakeholders Forums; liaison with non-EU countries; engaged community with all stakeholder groups represented.
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Coordinator: TGB, Belgium Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 9.9 M€ EU funding: 9.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 223 k€ 1 January 2019 - 30 June 2021 |
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ESCAPE: European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures ESCAPE aims to address the Open Science challenges shared by ESFRI facilities (SKA, CTA, KM3Net, EST, ELT, HL-LHC, FAIR) as well as other pan-European research infrastructures (CERN, ESO, JIVE) in astronomy and particle physics. ESCAPE actions will be focused on developing solutions for the large data sets handled by the ESFRI facilities. These solutions shall: i) connect ESFRI projects to EOSC ensuring integration of data and tools; ii) foster common approaches to implement open-data stewardship; iii) establish interoperability within EOSC as an integrated multi-messenger facility for fundamental science. These joint efforts are expected to result into a data-lake infrastructure as cloud open-science analysis facility linked with the EOSC.
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Coordinator: CNRS, France Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 15.9 M€ EU funding: 15.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 1.5 M€ 1 February 2019 - 31 July 2022 |
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OCRE: Open Clouds for Research Environments The OCRE consortium combines the expertise of four partners to enable access and drive the adoption and use of commercial cloud services by the European research community. After gathering user requirements, OCRE will manage the adoption of funds and buy resources from the selected suppliers (OCRE will act as customer) and make cloud resources available to institutions. Such a delivery vehicle is effective and efficient for the supply as well as the demand side. Service adoption is the key focus of this work. A legal and technical mechanism will be created to integrate a range of these commercial services into the EOSC hub in order to make them more easily available to researchers.
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Coordinator: GÉANT, The Netherlands Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 12 M€ EU funding: 12 M€ EU funding for CERN: 560 k€ 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2021 |
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OpenAIRE-Nexus: Scholarly Communication Services for EOSC users OpenAIRE-Nexus brings in Europe, EOSC and the world a set of services to implement and accelerate Open Science. To embed in researchers workflows, making it easier for them to accept and uptake Open Science practices of openness and FAIRness. To give the tools to libraries, research communities to make their content more visible and discoverable. To assist policy makers to better understand the environment and ramifications of Open Science into new incentives, scientific reward criteria, impact indicators, so as to increase research and innovation potential. To foster innovation, by providing SMEs with open data about scientific production. To this aim, OpenAIRE-Nexus onboards to the EOSC fourteen services, provided by public institutions, einfrastructures, and companies, structured in three portfolios: PUBLISH (catch all repository; Open Access overlay journal platform; data anonymization; Data Management Plans), MONITOR (Open Science and research impact monitoring; open citation indexes for article-article, article-dataset links; European monitoring of Article Processing Charges, publication usage statistics), and DISCOVER (open catalogue and APIs to the OpenAIRE Research Graph of interlinked publications, data, software, projects; discovery portals for communities; validation and brokering services for data sources to improve their metadata). The services are widely used in Europe and beyond and integrated in OpenAIRE-Nexus to assemble a uniform Open Science Scholarly Communication package for the EOSC. |
Coordinator: OPENAIRE AMKE, Greece Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 4 M€ EU funding: 4 M€ EU funding for CERN: 607 K€ 1 January 2021 - 30 June 2023 |
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RAISE: AI- and Simulation-Based Engineering at Exascale Compute- and data-driven research encompasses a broad spectrum of disciplines and is the key to Europe’s global success in various scientific and economic fields. The massive amount of data produced by such technologies demands novel methods to post-process, analyze, and to reveal valuable mechanisms. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) methods is rapidly proceeding and they are progressively applied to many stages of workflows to solve complex problems. Analyzing and processing big data require high computational power and scalable AI solutions. Therefore, it becomes mandatory to develop entirely new workflows from current applications that efficiently run on future high-performance computing architectures at Exascale. The Center of Excellence for AI- and Simulation-based Engineering at Exascale (AISee) will be the excellent enabler for the advancement of such technologies in Europe on industrial and academic levels, and a driver for novel intertwined AI and HPC methods. These technologies will be advanced along representative use-cases, covering a wide spectrum of academic and industrial applications, e.g., coming from wind energy harvesting, wetting hydrodynamics, manufacturing, physics, turbomachinery, and aerospace. |
Coordinator: FZJ, Germany Scientist in Charge from CERN: Maria Girone Full costs of the project: 4.9 M€ EU funding: 4.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 517 K€ 1 January 2021 - 31 December 2023 |
Industrial Leadership
ICT
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HNSciCloud: Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud HNSciCloud is a Pre-Commercial Procurement project, coordinated by CERN, focusing on building a hybrid cloud platform that can address the needs of world-class scientific research through a competitive marketplace in which European cloud players can develop their own services for a wider range of users. The HNSciCloud consortium is composed of 11 partners from 7 countries.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 6.7 M€ EU funding: 4.7 M€ EU funding for CERN: 4.3 M€ 1 January 2016 – 30 June 2018 |
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PICSE: Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe PICSE will capture best practices for procurement of cloud services and stimulate innovation within public sector procurement in line with a procurement roadmap. PICSE builds on the insights gained through the Helix Nebula Initiative about how cloud‐based services release the potential for significant improvements in data and information management and use. The project will provide a focal point for efforts to identify, analyse, publicise and harmonise opportunities for shared procurement.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 500 k€ EU funding: 500 k€ EU funding for CERN: 186 k€ 1 September 2014 – 29 February 2016 |
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Up2U: Up to University The key objective of the project is to bridge the gap between secondary schools and higher education & research by better integrating formal (academic) and informal, self-learning scenarios. The project will deliver technology and methodology (guidelines) for students in preparation for their university studies and scientific careers. This project will develop an innovative ICT ecosystem - based on the proven experiences in higher education and big research. The goal is to facilitate open, more effective and efficient co-design, co-creation, and use of digital content, tools and services adapted for personalized learning and teaching of high school students preparing for university. This will be driven by institutions providing services with a proven track records in research and higher education. This will create an opportunity for integration and adaption of already existing services to the specific learning context of secondary education.
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Coordinator: GÉANT, The Netherlands Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 5.1 M€ EU funding: 4.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 380 k€ 1 January 2017 – 31 December 2019 |
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ARCHIVER: Archiving and Preservation for Research Environments The ARCHIVER PCP project will perform R&D to develop data archiving and preservation cloud based services in a multi-disciplinary research environment complementing the current on-premise services. The innovative resulting services will leverage standard processes and best practices, whilst ensuring the research groups retain total ownership of their data.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 4.9 M€ Requested EU contribution: 4.4 M€ EU funding for CERN: 3.8 M€ 1 January 2019 - 30 June 2022 |
Space
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IMPACTA: Innovative Mechanically Pumped loop for ACtive Antennae The objective of this project is to solve the need of Large Satellites Integrators of telecom satellites to develop bespoke thermal control solutions for Active Antennae. The consortium will perform research on a two-phase MPL (mechanically pumped fluid loop) for an active antenna, and aims to build a demonstrator with a Technical Readiness Level (TRL) of 6. This two-phase MPL will be a key building block in the next generation of telecommunications satellites.
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Coordinator: AVS, Spain Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.7 M€ Requested EU contribution: 3.6 M€ EU funding for CERN: 595 k€ 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2021 |
Spreading excellence and widening participation
Twinning
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ASCIMAT: Increasing the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in Advanced Scintillation Materials of the Institute of Physics from the Czech Academy of Sciences ASCIMAT is a Twinning project aimed at boosting the scientific excellence and technology-transfer capacity in advanced scintillating materials of the Institute of Physics from the Czech Academy of Sciences by creating a network with 4 other partners: CERN, Institut Lumière Matière - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca and Intelligentsia Consultants.
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Coordinator: IPASCR, Czech Republic Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 999 k€ EU funding: 999 k€ EU funding for CERN: 144 k€ 1 January 2016 - 31 December 2018 |
Science in society
Making science education and careers attractive for young people (SEAC)
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CREATIONS: Developing an Engaging Science Classroom The CREATIONS coordination action aims to demonstrate innovative approaches and activities that involve teachers and students in Scientific Research through creative ways that are based on Art and focus on the development of effective links and synergies between schools and research infrastructures in order to spark young people’s interest in science and in following scientific careers.
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Coordinator: UniBayreuth, Germany Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.8 M€ 1 Oct 2015 – 30 Sept 2018 |
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CROWD4SDG: Citizen Science for Monitoring Climate Impacts and Achieving Climate Resilience In 2015, the United Nations launched 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to be reached via 169 targets and to be measured with 232 indicators. However, collecting such data can be challenging. The EU-funded CROWD4SDG project aims to analyse how citizen science (CS) can be used to measure progresses to achieve the SDGs. Within this scope, the project will explore how CS can monitor the impacts of extreme climate events and strengthen the resilience of communities within the framework of climate-related disasters. The project's methodology will be based on artificial intelligence and machine learning as well as on the use of social media and other non-traditional data sources.
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Coordinator: UNIGE, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2 M€ EU funding: 2 M€ EU funding for CERN: 293 k€ 1 May 2020 - 30 April 2023 |
Euratom
Fission
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PATRICIA: Partitioning And Transmuter Research Initiative in a Collaborative Innovation Action This project focusses on research on advanced partitioning to efficiently separate Am from spent fuel, on experimental and fuel performance code development work studying the behaviour of Am bearing fuel under irradiation and on the safety related research supporting the licensing process of MYRRHA in its role in the development trajectory for a dedicated accelerator driven transmuter. For first time, the communities working of partitioning, transmutation and the development of MYRRHA are joint in one project.
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Coordinator: SCK-GEN, Belgium Scientist in Charge from CERN: Jan Uythoven Full costs of the project: 6.4 M€ EU funding: 6.4 M€ EU funding for CERN: 255 k€ 1 January 2020 - 31 December 2024 |
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EURAMED rocc-n-roll: EURopeAn MEDical application and Radiation prOteCtion Concept: strategic research agenda aNd ROadmap interLinking to heaLth and digitisation aspects EURAMED rocc-n-roll aims to propose an integrated and coordinated European approach to research and innovation in medical applications of ionising radiation and related radiation protection based on stakeholder consensus and existing activities in the field. To achieve this, research and radiation protection needs in the clinical disciplines using ionising radiation will be analysed with the aim to generate the largest benefit for the European population in an equal, safe, high-quality way throughout Europe, by fostering clinical translation, while also strengthening economic growth and industrial competitiveness, supported by research and innovation in the field. |
Coordinator: EIBIR, Austria Scientist in Charge from CERN: Thierry Stora Full costs of the project: 1.9 M€ EU funding: 1.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 28 k€ 1 September 2020 - 31 August 2023 |
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ARIEL: Availability and use of nuclear data research infrastructures for education and learning For the continuing improvement of the safety of current and planned nuclear facilities accurate and precise nuclear data are required to simulate the ongoing processes on the atomic level. In order to maintain the transfer of knowledge to the younger generation and to countries with less advanced nuclear programs the most modern and state of the art neutron beam facilities based on accelerators and research reactors will unite in this project international experts with interested early stage researchers (ESR) and technicians to work on the most challenging problems. The project will provide at least 3000 additional beam time hours for external users groups at the neutron facilities of the consortium. Up to 90 ESR and technicians will be able to receive full mobility and logistical support to participate in these experiments at 23 different accelerator or reactor based neutron facilities. |
Coordinator: HZDR, Germany Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.9 M€ EU funding: 1.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 68 k€ 1 September 2019 - 31 August 2023 |
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MYRTE: MYRRHA Research and Transmutation Endeavour The goal of MYRTE is to perform the necessary research in order to demonstrate the feasibility of transmutation of high-level waste at industrial scale through the development of the MYRRHA research facility. Within MYRRHA as a large research facility, the demonstration of the technological performance of transmutation will be combined with the use for the production of radio-isotopes and as a material testing for nuclear fission and fusion applications.
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Coordinator: SCK-CEN, Belgium Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 12 M€ EU funding: 8.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 106 k€ 1 April 2015 - 31 March 2019 |
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SANDA: Supplying Accurate Nuclear Data for energy and non-energy Applications The project will include experimental measurements of new or improved quality data, evaluation, validation and dissemination of the data to produce libraries that can be used by safety authorities, research institutions, the nuclear energy industry, health organizations, other non-energy applications and the EU society at large. The project will also include in smaller fraction support to detector development, facility setups and samples fabrication to prepare important measurements and validations that are not possible in the time framework of the present projectl but that will be required in near future for the safe and efficient use of nuclear technologies. |
Coordinator: CIEMAT, Spain Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 4.6 M€ EU funding: 3.5 M€ EU funding for CERN: 55 k€ 1 September 2019 - 31 August 2023 |