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Project

EUCARD-2

Title Enhanced European Coordination for Accelerator Research & Development
Grant Agreement Number 312453
Funding Programmes FP7
Dates 01/05/2013 - 30/04/2017
Project URL http://eucard2.web.cern.ch/
Scientific Domain Physical Sciences and Engineering
Type Of Project CP-CSA-INFRA
Abstract Research accelerators are facing important challenges that must be addressed in the years to come: existing infrastructures are stretched to all performance frontiers, new world-class facilities on the ESFRI roadmap are starting or nearing completion, and strategic decisions are needed for future accelerators and major upgrades in Europe. While current projects concentrate on their specific objectives, EuCARD-2 brings a global view to accelerator research, coordinating a consortium of 40 accelerator laboratories, technology institutes, universities and industry to jointly address common challenges. By promoting complementary expertise, cross-disciplinary fertilisation and a wider sharing of knowledge and technologies throughout academia and with industry, EuCARD-2 significantly enhances multidisciplinary R&D for European accelerators. This new project will actively contribute to the development of a European Research Area in accelerator science by effectively implementing a distributed accelerator laboratory in Europe. Transnational access will be granted to state-of-the-art test facilities, and joint R&D effort will build upon and exceed that of the ongoing EuCARD project. Researchers will concentrate on a few well-focused themes with very ambitious deliverables: 20 T accelerator magnets, innovative materials for collimation of extreme beams, new high-gradient high-efficiency accelerating systems, and emerging acceleration technologies based on lasers and plasmas. EuCARD-2 will include six networks on strategic topics to reinforce synergies between communities active at all frontiers, extending the scope towards innovation and societal applications. The networks concentrate on extreme beam performance, novel accelerator concepts with outstanding potential, energy efficiency and accelerator applications in the fields of medicine, industry, environment and energy. One network will oversee the whole project to proactively catalyze links to industry and the innovation potential.
Partners
(Organisation name and Country)
KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE, Germany
ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE, United Kingdom
JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAET MAINZ, Germany
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM BERLIN FUR MATERIALIEN UND ENERGIE GMBH, Germany
PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT, Switzerland
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV, Germany
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, United Kingdom
POLITECNICO DI TORINO, Italy
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom
UPPSALA UNIVERSITET, Sweden
NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAN JADROWYCH, Poland
GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FUER SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH, Germany
POLITECHNIKA WARSZAWSKA, Poland
UNIVERSITAET ROSTOCK, Germany
UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE, Switzerland
TTY-SAATIO, Finland
UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE, Netherlands
INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE, France
SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET, Sweden
UNIVERSITA TA MALTA, Malta
UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD, United Kingdom
HEINRICH-HEINE-UNIVERSITAET DUESSELDORF, Germany
CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, United Kingdom
RUSSIAN RESEARCH CENTRE KURCHATOV INSTITUTE, Russian Federation
Société civile Synchrotron SOLEIL, France
Bruker HTS GmbH, Germany
RHP-TECHNOLOGY GMBH & CO KG, Austria
EUROPEAN SPALLATION SOURCE ESS AB, Sweden
UNIVERSITAT FUR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST GRAZ (KUG), Austria
TEKNOLOGISK INSTITUT, Denmark
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, United Kingdom