 Towards transnational funding of Nuclear
Physics Research Infrastructures and associated
equipments
FAIR
AGATA
ERA-NET for Research
infrastructures
Objectives
 To contribute to the development of the European
Research Area by improving coherence across Europe of
such programmes/activities
 To help developing EU Programmes and Policy for
research infrastructures (Very important in relation with
future calls in Particular for FP8 aligned with our needs!!!)
Eligible partners are only programme owners
(National/region/ministries/governments or Research councils and
funding agencies managing research programs)
List of NuPNET Partners
(18 partners repres.14 countries)
Partner no.
Country
Short name
Partner
Partner 1
F
CNRS-IN2P3
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Institut National de la Physique Nucléaire et de la Physique des
Particules
Partner 2
D
PTGSI
Projektträger des BMBF für Hadronen- und Kernphysik, GSI
Partner 3
D
BMBF
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Partner 4
I
INFN
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Partner 5
SP
FECYT
Fundacion Espanola para la Ciencia y la Tecnologia
Partner 6
SP
MICINN
Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovacion
Partner 7
B
FNRS
Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique
Partner 8
B
FWO V
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlanderen
Partner 9
BG
INRNE
Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Partner 10
F
CEA
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique
Partner 11
CZ
NPI ASCR
Nuclear Physics Institute - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Partner 12
FI
HIP
Helsinki Institute of Physics
Partner 13
GR
GSRT
General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Partner 14
HU
NKTH
National Office for Research and Technology
Partner 15
NL
RuG
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Partner 16
PL
NCBiR
National Centre for Research and Development
Partner 17
RO
IFIN-HH
National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
Partner 18
UK
STFC
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Objectives
 Acquire a mutual and better understanding of the Funding systems
of nuclear physics infrastructures and associated equipments in Europe that
is needed for future collaborations.
Identification of joint activities to be implemented in the framework
of NuPNET.
Establish procedures and funding for transnational common
activities (variable geometry)
Launching of one (or more) joint pilot activity
Long Term Goal Establish a sustainable action beyond this project
(A Standing Committee with directs links with ESFRI , EU-RI, EUProgrammes EU-Countries Representatives)
The NuPNET strategy:
Success through a stepwise
approach
18 participants are Funding agencies and ministries From 14 EU countries
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
Information exchange
and Census of resources
for Nuclear Physics
Funding Bodies (WP2)
Agreement on an Action Plan
for Infrastructures (Resource
and financial Action plan of
Agencies) (WP3)
Implementation of pilot
projects of the Action plan
WP4
The NuPNET strategy:
a combined Management Structure
Appointed Leaders of NuPNET
WP 1
Management
Dorothée Peitzmann
CNRS/IN2P3
WP 1.1
Overall Management of NuPNET
Dorothée Peitzmann
CNRS/IN2P3
WP 1.2
Overall Co-ordination of the Consortium
Dorothée Peitzmann
CNRS/IN2P3
WP 1.3
Communication and electronic tools
Ioan Ursu
IFIN-HH +
Dorothée Peitzmann
CNRS/IN2P3
Information exchange
Irene Reinhard
PTGSI
WP 2.0
Co-ordination of WP2
Irene Reinhard
PTGSI
WP 2.1
Systematic exchange of information on funding modalities
Sotirios Harissopulos
GSRT
WP 2.2
Census of present EU nuclear physics agents and resources
Irene Reinhard
PTGSI
WP 2.3
Liaison activities
Muhsin N. Harakeh
RuG +
Irene Reinhard
PT-GSI
Definition of joint activities
Angela Bracco
INFN
WP 3.0
Co-ordination of WP3
Angela Bracco
INFN
WP 3.1
WP 3.2
Identification of opportunities for NuPNET
Identification of formal / legal barriers to launching joint
Angela Bracco
Anna Ostapczuk
INFN
NCBiR
WP 3.3
Funding Plan for joint activities
Nicolas Alamanos
CEA
WP 3.3.1 Finalisation of the Funding Plan for joint activities
Bijan Saghai
CEA
WP 3.3.2 Proposal of the Funding Plan to the Funding Agencies
Bijan Saghai
CEA
Launching joint activities
José Benlliure
FECYT
WP 4.0
Co-ordination of WP4
José Benlliure
MICINN with INFN
WP 4.1
Existing co-operation tools
Chavdar Stoyanov
INRNE
WP 4.2
Selection of joint activities at a transnational level
José Benlliure (MICINN)
MICINN + FECYT
WP 4.3
Agreement on one or more pilot transnational activities
José Benlliure (MICINN)
MICINN + FECYT
WP 4.4
Sustainable action beyond
Istvan Kocsis/ Zsolt Fülöp
NKTH
WP 2
WP 3
WP 4
List of deliverables -Status
NuPNET Deliverables, ordered by deadline (as of June 2010)
Del.
no.
Deliverable name
WP
no.
Lead
Delivery
month
ACTUAL
Del. date
Submitted
D1.1
Short Management plan
WP1
CNRS/IN2P3
2
31/05/2008
YES
D 1.2
Communication plan and logo
WP1
IFIN-HH
3
30/06/2008
YES
D 2.1
Census of existing funding programmes
WP2
PT-GSI
12
24/07/2009
YES
D 3.1
List of opportunities
WP3
INFN
18
23/04/2010
YES
D 3.2
Report on formal and legal barriers
WP3
NCBiR
18
March 2010
D 1.3
Periodic Activity Report for the EC
WP1
CNRS/IN2P3
19
15/12/2009
D 3.3
Funding Action Plan defining joint activities
WP3
CEA
21
May 2010
D 2.2
WP2
GRST
24
May 2010
WP4
INRNE
24
May 2010
WP4
FECYT
27
Nov. 2010
D 1.4
Compilation of the results of the questionnaire
Report on the possible use
of co-operation tools
Short report on the selection
of joint trans-national activities
Short report on communication
WP1
IFIN-HH
36
Feb. 2011
D 1.5
Final Activity Report for the EC
WP1
CNRS/IN2P3
36
Feb. 2011
D 2.3
Short report on liaison activities
Report on the launching process
of the pilot joint activity
Plan for continuation of co-ordination
beyond the project's lifetime
WP2
RuG
36
Feb. 2011
WP4
FECYT
36
Feb. 2011
WP4
NKTH
36
Feb. 2011
D 4.1
D 4.2
D 4.3
D 4.4
YES
Actions since the kick-off
March 2008-Aug 2009
Period of the First Activity Report
 NuPNET Kick-off meeting on 27 March 2008 in Paris
 Co-ordination Committee (CC) meets for the 1st time on 19 May in
Frankfurt. During this period, 5 CC meetings have been held.
The EU transmits the draft Grant Agreement (beg. July 2008)
 Official run of the WP2 Questionnaire (sent to NuPNET Consortium)
 1st NuPNET Open Days on 8 Sept. in Athens:
Greece, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria
 1st Governing Council on 13 Oct.2008 in Madrid:
Appointment of the elected Chairman: M.N.Harakeh (KVI Groningen)
 The EU signs the final Grant Agreement (14 Oct. 2008)
 2nd NuPNET Open Days on 30-31 Oct. 2008 in Darmstadt:
Germany, Belgium, NL, Finland
Actions Sept.2008 – Aug. 2009
 1st pre-financing received at CNRS/IN2P3 (14/11/2008)
 A Web site for NuPNET: www.nupnet-eu.org

Analysis of the completed Questionnaires by WP2
 3rd NuPNET Open Days on 12-13 May 09 in Milan:
France, Italy, Poland, Spain,UK
– Starting work for WP3 – List of opportunities
 24/07/2009: submission of Del. D2.1 “Census of Funding”
 Aug./Sept. 2009 – Transfer of 2nd instalment of pre-financing
In addition:
 8 Papers and articles in several journals and magazines
 Reports EU meetings+Int’l Committees (NuPECC,ESFRI,OECD,ECT*,FP7,I3)
 Timely submission of 4 deliverables: D1.1, D1.2, D2.1 and D1.3
WP2 -Results – NuPNET members
FUNDING of NP 515M€ /year
WP2 - First Results –NuPNET
STAFF EMPLOYED Total 5,918
PhD
Students
Physicist
s Fixed
Term
Physicist
s Tenured
Total Physicists
Engineers /
Technicians
Comparison
with NuPECC
survey 06
BE
58
37
38
133
21
Updated
15-33%
BG
3
21
28
52
9
Updated
30%
CZ
19
40
16
75
12
Updated
15%
DE
440
330
330
1,100
500
Updated *
10%
ES
61
35
119
215
15
Updated
35%
FI
61
35
24
120
25
Updated
20%
FR IN2P3
92
21
301
414
466
Updated
30%
FR CEA
14
20
50
84
204
Updated
25%
GR
10
10
35
55
15
Updated
33%
HU
14
14
59
87
26
As in NuPECC
13%
IT
70
204
354
628
295
Updated
30%
NL
42
5
31
78
55
As in NuPECC
PL
150
88
203
441
109
Updated
RO
99
28
213
340
85
As in NuPECC
36%
UK
112
53
63
228
31
As in NuPECC
10%
Sum
1,245
941
1,864
4,050
1,868
5,918
30.7%
23.2%
46.0%
Total Physicists
Support
Total
Country
Estimated
ratio of female /
total researchers
21%
(40% for PhD
Students)
15-20%
WP2 - First Results –
FP6- Support to NP
Actions Aug 2009 - Today and Beyond
A) 15 Dec. 2009 - Submission of Deliver."1st Activity Report“ (WP1)
B) 14-15 Jan. 2010 - GC2 Meeting in Budapest
C) Jan. 2010 – WP1 – First NuPNET CD containing all reports..
D) April 2010 – Submission of “List of Opportunities” (WP3)
E) May 2010 – WP1 “Launch of the NuPNET Intranet”
F) June 2010 - WP3 Deliverable “Report on formal and legal barriers”
G) June 2010 – WP4 Deliverable “Co-operation Tools”
H) June 2010 – WP2 Deliverable “Compilation of Census Results”
I) June 2010 – WP3 Deliverable “Funding Action Plan”
J) Summer 2010 – Publication of the “NuPNET Report 2010”
K) Oct. 2010 – WP4 Deliverable “Selection of Joint Activities”
NuPNET “List of Opportunities”
After long and fruitful discussions at the GC2 meeting in Budapest and
in CC meetings of the work done by WP3 (Angela Bracco) a document
was issued listing the opportunities for joint activities for NUPNET.
FAIR: (FACILITY FOR ANTIPROTON AND ION RESEARCH)
R&D for CBM, PANDA, NuSTAR and APPA (on silicon detectors, diamond detectors, silicon
photomultipliers, neutron and gamma detectors and gas-detectors for ions)
SPIRAL2: The next generation of Radioactive Ion beams facilities of ISOL type for
Nuclear Structure and reactions and Nuclear Astrophysics. For this facility developments and
constructions of instrumentation (for the specific instrumentation projects S3, NFS, PARIS) are
proposed.
ALICE: Phase of Nuclear Matter and High-energy Heavy ion collisions
(data taking -analysis and detector-upgrade)
R&D at ISOL facilities oriented toward EURISOL: Ion-source, target and instrumentation developmen
at SPES, HIE-ISOLDE, ISOL@MYRRHA, SPIRAL and SPIRAL2.
AGATA (European Gamma tracking Array AGATA): operation of the first phase and items for
the other phases
Nuclear Astrophysics Instrumentation
Hadron Physics with electromagnetic probes (JLAB)
Nuclear Theory
•Evaluation and support of nuclear data base ENSDD
List of Opportunities (cont’d)
Under EURISOL_R&D one can envisage the following
activities:
•
Target-ion-source developments Instrumentation:
Detector development, separator, secondary targets
Development of the physics case
Under the envelope Detector R&D (common to a number
of facilities) one can envisage the following activities:
•
High-resolution, high-rate silicon detectors
(including experimental integration)
•
Large-area diamond detectors (TOF, beam
monitors)
•
Micropatterned gas tracking detectors (GEMs,
Micromegas detector)
•
Si-photomultiplier technologies
•
Neutron detectors
•
Gamma detectors for different facilities
•
Gas detectors for nuclear astrophysics and Nuclear
Structure
Actions Aug 2009-Today and Beyond
For the few coming months,
elaborating a common “Funding Action Plan”,
a “methodology on the selection of trans-national Pilot
Actions
(Call procedure ,COMMON PEER REVIEW FOR
SELECTION, FUNDING AND AGREED ON A MOU WITH
INTERESTED PARTIES)
Conclusion of this process a “List of possible joint
actions to be funded” are among the main challenges for
NuPNET and therefore actually being discussed.
What actions will NuPNET fund??
Goal: Decision at the GC3 meeting
in Paris on 14-15 Oct. 2010
Thank you
for your attention
NuPNET Work packages
overview
 WP1: Management, coordination and
communication ( Fr -IN2P3/CNRS)
-Overall Management &Coordination of NuPNET
(IN2P3-CNRS)
Communication and electronic tools (Romania)
 WP2: Systematic exchange and networking(DE,GSI)
- Systematic exchange of information on funding
modalities and administrative procedures (Gr/D)
Action Open days
- Census of present European Nuclear physics
resources (D/Gr/Ro)
Action Questionnaire
-Links with other bodies in nuclear physics (D)
-Integration of new associates (Nl)
NuPNET Work packages overview
WP3: Funding action plan (Italy, INFN)
- Analysis of current funding of European nuclear research
projects and identification of opportunities for NuPNET (I)
-Investigation of formal and legal barriers for a future
European cooperation (Pol)
-Funding Action Plan: Establish common evaluation
procedures and standards for common transnational projects for
funding infrastructures of nuclear physics (CEA-Fr)
WP4 Implementation of trans-national joint activities
( Spain, FECYT)
Task 4.1: Use of existing agreements (Bu)
Task 4.2: Mechanisms for joint activities at a trans-national level
(E/UK)
Task 4.3: Test implementation of a coordinated trans-national
pilot activity (E)