EUCARD

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EUCARD

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

ENSAR

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ENSAR

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

 

CRISP

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CRISP

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

 

AIDA

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AIDA

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

 

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EU Project Compendium

Looking for the big picture as well as the details of what is available at CERN in terms of competences, procedures, documentation to support you at any stage of an EU project? Here is an .xls file that compiles this information for you. Please note that this is a first version that will be regularly updated in particular when more information on Horizon Europe becomes available. We are eager to know your feedback on this first version and how to make it even more suited to your needs. Therefore don’t hesitate to share your comments by sending an email to r.muller@cern.ch

EU Project Compendium 

What is an EU project?

The main R&D programmes of CERN cover particle physics and related accelerator, detector, and IT technologies. In order for a project in one of these fields to be eligible to receive funding from the EU, there should be:

  1. an appropriate H2020 Work Programme with topics that belong to these fields,
  2. a suitable Call for Proposals addressing these topics, and
  3. a suitable instrument (type of project) corresponding to the needs of the project.

The Work Programmes are bi-annual implementation plans that describe the priority topics of each H2020 Programme that will be funded over a two year period. The Calls for Proposals are announcements soliciting proposals in certain topics of the Work Programmes.

The Calls indicate the topics that need to be addressed by the projects, the deadlines for submission of proposals, the type of projects that can be funded and the total budget available, and in some cases, the minimum or maximum funding each project may receive. Each published Call is accompanied by several important reference documents, such as proposal templates, evaluation forms, rules for submission and evaluation etc.

The planned timing of the Calls depends on the type of programme. For ERC and MSCA the Calls for Proposals are repetitive: basically one Call per type of project per year (e.g. one call for ITN, one call for Starting Grants etc.). For most other programmes, topics appear only once in 2 years and may not be repeated. Therefore, the bi-annual Work Programmes should be closely monitored. 

Once a suitable Call is identified, the participation of CERN in any EU project proposal is subject to approval by the senior management (for more details, see the CERN internal procedures).

In H2020, the funding rate for projects in any given Work Programme and Call, may reach up to 100% of the total project costs. However, there are projects, in particular on the Research Infrastructures Work Programme, where CERN has participated with a lower funding rate (as low as 30% of the total project costs in some cases) and this may still be the case in H2020. 

Therefore, the participation of CERN in a given EU project will normally imply a commitment of CERN resources to work on a project, which, until then, has not been foreseen in the laboratory’s agreed R&D programme. In addition, it should be borne in mind that the administrative management and follow-up of EU projects is not simple and differs from the normal administrative procedures of the Organization.

It is essential that the agreement of the CERN  management hierarchy (Group Leader – Head of Department – Directorate) is sought in advance. The participation of CERN in any EU project needs to be approved via the dedicated EDH document: Externally Funded Projects. 

The EU Projects Office should be informed about ongoing proposals at the earliest possible moment, and if the project is approved, it should be then kept informed of the further developments.

In the case of proposals for Marie Skłodowska-Curie projects (for host-driven actions: ITN, RISE), there is a special body called Marie Curie Steering Group which, in addition to the departmental approval, reviews the ideas for such projects, and makes a recommendation to the Directorate.

CERN PIC number to be used for all EU programmes, including H2020 and Erasmus+ : 999988133

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