CERN Accelerating science

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

Coordinator: Uni Roma, Italy

CERN Contact: Frederic Magnin

EU funding: 3.9 M€ over 4 years

1 September 2012 - 31 August 2016

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

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

CERN Contact: Amalia Ballarino

EU funding: 1.99 M€ over 3 years

1 November 2012 - 30 October 2015

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

Coordinator: University of Twente, Netherlands

CERN Contact: Rolf Landua

EU funding: 9.7 M€ over 4 years

1 November 2012 - 30 October 2016

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

Coordinator: UPD, France

CERN Contact: Peter Skands

EU funding: 3.4 M€ over 3 years

1 October 2012 - 30 September 2015

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

Coordinator: ALTEC Software S.A., Greece

CERN Contact: Bob Jones

EU funding: 3.2 M€ over 30 months

1 January 2011 - 31 June 2013

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

Coordinator: STFC, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 6.8 M€ over 4 years

1 January 2011 - 31 December 2014

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

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Manjit Dosanjh

EU funding: 6 M€ over 4 years

1 February 2010 - 31 January 2014

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

Coordinator: UnivMed, France

CERN Contact: Paul Lecoq

EU funding: 5.5 M€ over 4 years

1 January 2011 - 31 December 2014