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Origins 2013

Origins 2013 - a European Researchesr' Night event

On 4 July 2012, CERN announced the discovery of a new particle, confirmed to be the Higgs boson this year, responsible for the origin of particles mass. In March, the unprecedented resolution provided by the instruments installed onboard ESAs Planck satellite, has revealed unexpected fluctuations in the temperature distribution of the primordial radiation of the Big Bang, providing an unprecedented insight into the origins of our Universe and a new picture of its composition today. Planck is painting a new picture of the Universe that is pushing the limits of understanding current cosmological theories. On Researchers Night 2013, we celebrate the multi-disciplinary teams of scientists who made these and other discoveries possible.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Paola Catapano

EU funding: 100 k€ over 7 months

1 April 2013 - 30 September 2013

BEST

Being a European Scientist Today

The main idea of the BEST project is to bring researchers closer to the public at large through the organisation and holding of the 2010 Researchers NIGHT on Friday, 24 September 2010.

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

CERN Contact: Paola Catapano

EU funding: 0.2 M€ over 7 months

1 April 2010 - 31 October 2010

EPLANET

European Particle Physics Latin American Network
EPLANET will foster a sustainable collaboration between Europe and Latin America in High Energy Physics and associated technologies. EPLANET will develop internal Latin-American collaboration to reach the critical scientific mass and profit from the educational, technological and industrial impact of HEP.

Coordinator: Uni Roma, Italy

CERN Contact: Jose Salicio Diez

EU funding: 9 M€ over 4 years

1 February 2011 - 31 January 2015

COFUND

Cofunding of the CERN Fellowship Programme
CERN has been running its Fellowship Programme for about 50 years. This project proposes an extension of the existing Senior Fellowship programme, co-funded by Marie Curie Actions. These fellowships will be branded “CERN–Marie-Curie COFUNDed Fellowships in Particle Physics and Advanced Technologies” (CMCC Fellowships in short) and will receive additional benefits with respect to regular CERN Fellowships.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Rudiger Voss

EU funding: 5 M€ per phase over 4 years

1st phase: 1 Apr 2009 - 31 Mar 2013
2nd phase: 1 Oct 2011 - 30 Sep 2015
3rd phase: 1 Oct 2012 - 30 Sep 2017

MECHANICS

Marie Curie linking Industry to CERN
The aim of MeChanICs is to enhance knowledge exchange in the field of precision manufacturing. The mechanisms used for the transfer of knowledge are two-way intersectoral secondments and dissemination workshops.

Coordinator: UH, Finland

CERN Contact: Germana Riddone

EU funding: 1 M€ over 4 years

1 September 2010 - 31 August 2014

FTK

FTK: Fast Tracker for Hadron Collider Experiments
This project aims to develop an extremely fast but compact processor, with supercomputer performances, for pattern recognition, data reduction, and information extraction in high quality image processing. The proposed hardware prototype features flexibility for potential applications in a wide range of fields, from triggering in high energy physics to simulating human brain functions in experimental psychology or to automating diagnosis by imaging in medical physics. In general, any artificial intelligence process based on massive pattern recognition could largely profit from our device, provided data are suitably prepared and formatted.

Coordinator: Universita di Pisa, Italy

CERN Contact: Fabio Formenti

EU funding: 1.6 M€

1 February 2013 - 31 January 2017

UNILHC

UNILHC: Unification in the LHC ERA
The main research theme of this initial training network is the theoretical interpretation of results coming from LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and other experimental and observational sources. The aim is to identify the physics Beyond the Standard Model of strong, weak and electro-magnetic forces and ultimately to provide a fully unified description of the fundamental states of matter and their interactions.

Coordinator: EP, France

CERN Contact: Christophe Grojean

EU funding: 3.7 M€ over 4 years

1 October 2009 - 30 September 2013

TALENT

Training for cAreer deveLopment in high-radiation ENvironmentTechnologies
TALENT offers career development for young researchers in the field of instrumentation for radiation detection. The project focuses on piloting new state-of-the-art technologies on the new precision pixel detector ATLAS Insertable B-Layer detector (IBL) and for future precision tracking detectors. The project will strengthen the co-operation between research and multidisciplinary industry in the fields of advanced radiation sensors, fast and low power consumption read-out and data acquisition electronics, new cooling technologies and ultra light mechanical support structures.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Heinz Pernegger

EU funding: 4.5 M€ over 4 years

1 January 2012 - 31 December 2015

PURESAFE

Preventing hUman intervention for incrREased SAfety in inFrastructures Emitting ionizing radiation
PURESAFE aims at enhancing career development and training of Early-Stage Researchers in the field of systems engineering. The program trains young researchers from multidisciplinary fields, such as mechanical engineering, software engineering, robotics and radiation protection for the purpose of cost-efficient life-cycle management of facilities generating ionizing radiation.

Coordinator: Tampere University of Technology, Finland

CERN Contact: Keith Kershaw

EU funding: 3.9 M€ over 4 years

1 December 2011 - 31 January 2015

PICOSEC

Pico-second Silicon photomultiplier-Electronics- & Crystal research-Marie-Curie-Network
PICOSEC aims to bring together early career researchers and experienced colleagues from across Europe, to take part in a structured, integrated and multidisciplinary training program for young researchers in an R&D project geared to develop a new class of ultra-fast photon detectors in PET and HEP. This R&D will be the core activity of a TOF-PET development for clinical applications and would open new perspectives in medical imaging and hence in the quality of patient treatment. Also future accelerators and particle physics experiments count on such detectors in order to cope with the new demands on luminosity pushed to new limits beyond the existing LHC.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns

EU funding: 5.7 M€ over 4 years

1 December 2011 - 30 November 2015

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