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

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

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

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

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

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