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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