CERN Accelerating science

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

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

Coordinator: UNIGE, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Jamie Shiers and Jakub Moscicki

EU funding: 6.22 M€ over 4 years

1 April 2009 - 31 March 2013

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

Coordinator: DESY, Germany

CERN Contact: James Gillies

EU funding: 2.8 M€ over 3 years

1 July 2009 - 30 June 2012

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

Coordinator: Red Electrica de Espana, Spain

CERN Contact: Amalia Ballarino

EU funding: 34.3 M€ over 4 years

1 October 2014 - 30 September 2018