Prsentation PowerPoint

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CARE Steering Committee and Dissemination Board
R. Aleksan (aleksan_at_dapnia.cea.fr) CARE Steering
Committee Paris, April 11, 2006

• Introduction et objectives
• CARE funding and general administrative matters
• FP7, ESGARD matters and CARE2

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Main objectives of the meeting

• Review financial situation
• Status of EU funding
• Total costs
• Budget for next 18 months

• Review progress in NA/JRA

• Discuss the future
• FP7
• CARE2

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Total costs for the 24 first months (20042005)
Total (5 years) expected costs 35 141 200
Total costs for past 24 months 14 011 451
(40)
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Total costs for the 24 first months (20042005)
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Total expected cost in 2005 10 659 423
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Summary of the financial situation
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Budget for the next 18 months
Total expected costs for next 18 months 12 839
414
Total costs requested to the EC 5 644 485 (we
should receive 2 500 000 )
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Annual Report (see O. Napoly)
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Timetable for FP7 adoption

• 6 April 2005 FP7 proposal
• 21 September 2005 Specific Prog. proposals
• June 2006 ? Adoption
• November 2006 ? First calls for proposals
• January 2007 ? Launch Conference

likely to be delayed by 6 months or so
Probably early spring 2007, with the first call
being on new infrastructures
Delayed accordingly
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What will ESGARD do next
ECFA statement at its meeting in November 2005
R-ECFA acknowledged the successful achievements
carried out by ESGARD and encourage the
committee to continue structuring the European
accelerator RD, (i.e. defining the strategy,
examining the proposals, making recommendations
and promoting the projects, in particular with
respect to the forthcoming seventh Framework
Programme (FP7)). Accordingly, R-ECFA
recommended maintaining the initial objectives
as written in the mandate of ESGARD Promoting
mutual coordination and facilitating the pooling
of European resources. Promoting a coherent and
coordinated utilization and development of
infrastructures. Promoting inter-disciplinary
collaboration including industry. Furthermore,
R-ECFA encouraged ESGARD to examine whether any
modifications and extensions of its mandate and
membership were appropriate and/or necessary in
order to enhance further the European activities
on accelerator RD.
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Met on February 27th to discuss its next actions
With the objectives

• to continue promoting Accelerator RD programs
  in Europe,
• to help developing strong and challenging
  collaborative efforts leading to
• outstanding proposals
• to develop a strategy, evaluate proposal, set
  priorities and make
• recommendation to the appropriate bodies

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ESGARD actions
Call for Letters of Intent for accelerator RD
project
With a deadline on April 28th .
So as to have a first scope of the ideas of the
community by the Zeuthen meeting

• We would like at this point to explore how our
  community could propose a
• coherent set of projects in an organized manner.
• To this end, we would like to make a call for
  Letters of Intent for RD projects.
• These proposals could be
• Joint Research Activities (JRA), to be included
  in I3 proposals, such as the ones
• in CARE
• Design Study (DS) projects, such EUROTeV or
  EURISOL
• Construction of New RD Infrastructures
  (CNI-RD), such as a test facility.
• It should be noted that ESGARD is only concerned
  by the new infrastructure
• for carrying accelerator RD and not the
  accelerators project for carrying
• physics programmes.

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So far received 6 contributions

• CNI European SC RF facility
• DS DS for neutrino facility
• I3-JRA RD on SC magnets
• I3-JRA Different SC activities (technology,
  instrumentation, new RF guns,
• new SC material)
• I3-JRA Deposition of thin superconducting
  layers for accelerator technology
• I3-JRA Deposition of superconducting films of
  pure lead (Pb) by means of the
• UHV cathodic arc

Next ESGARD meeting at CERN on May 19, 2006
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ESGARD actions (contd)
Letter to the Strategy Group stressing the need
of accelerator RD

• ESGARD stresses the importance of continuing and
  enhancing further the European effort
• both for generic and targeted accelerator
  RD.
• ESGARD reaffirms the dramatic need for
  accelerator RD with the appropriate level of
  funding
• coming from the national funding agencies and
  the EC. Indeed a vigorous RD effort is vital
• in order to be ready to launch the
  construction of new infrastructures in a timely
  fashion,
• allowing the community to capitalize on prior
  European investments and maintain its leadership.
• More specifically, this required effort
  includes RD toward the upgrades of the LHC and
• the CERN accelerator complex, ILC, CLIC,
  intense neutrino beams, flavor factories and test
• accelerator facilities using novel
  technologies.
• Furthermore ESGARD is concerned about the
  persistent lack of accelerator physicists and
• stresses the need for enhancing the
  education, the training and the recruitment of
  young
• accelerator physicists.
• It is felt also that the appointment of
  professors in the field of accelerator physics
  should be
• strongly encouraged in the universities and
  supported by the research institutes.
• Finally ESGARD stresses the importance of
  communicating the outcome of the SG to the
• European strategy Forum for Research
  Infrastructure in a timely manner.

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ESGARD organization
ESGARD propositions to modify its rules
The term of the ESGARD members should be limited
to 4 years. The members, nominated by the
directors of the Particle Physics laboratory in
Europe, should be representatives from the major
laboratories, i.e. CERN, DESY, CCLRC, CEA
(DAPNIA), IN2P3 (Orsay), INFN or INFN-LNF. The
possible participation of a representative from a
Russian laboratory was raised and will be
discussed with the laboratory Directors. As a
first step toward involving other communities
active in accelerator RD (e.g. nuclear physics,
light sources), observers from these
communities, should be invited to attend the
ESGARD meetings when they are concerned by the
subjects on the agenda. The question of to whom
ESGARD must actually report needs to be
clarified. Two routes can be envisaged for this
reporting CERN Council or ECFA.