 Towards transnational funding of Nuclear Physics
Research Infrastructures and associated equipments
AGATA
ERA-NET for Research
infrastructures
Objectives
 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!!!)
Long-Term Goal  Establish a sustainable action beyond this project  to be done ??
(A Standing Committee with direct links to ESFRI , EU-RI, EU-Programmes EU-Countries
Representatives)
Eligible partners are only programme owners:
National, regional, ministries, governments, Research councils, funding agencies
who are all managing research programmes.
The NuPNET strategy:
Success through a stepwise approach
2008-2009
2010-2011
2011 and beyond
*Communication:
NuPNET Website+ Articles
*Census of resources
*List of opportunities
*List of joint activities
Funding Action Plan
*Launch of NuPNET Call
*Launch pilot activities
*Action beyond
NuPNET
The NuPNET strategy:
a combined Management Structure
18 Institutions ,14 countries
Belgium
Belgium
Bulgaria
Czech Rep.
Finland
France
France
Germany
Germany
FNRS
FWO-V
INRNE
CEA
HIP
CEA
CNRS-IN2P3
BMBF
PT-GSI
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
Romania
Spain
Spain
UK
GSRT
NKTH
INFN
RuG
NCBiR
IFIN-HH
FECYT
MICINN
STFC
Project fully completed 03-2008/11-2011
All milestones achieved
All deliverables submitted
Publication of the
"NuPNET Report"
Launch of the first
"NuPNET Call"
Launch of joint
pilot activities
Action beyond
NuPNET to be discussed
Final Report submitted
European Commission
Research and Innovation DG
1049 Bruxelles
Belgium
Subject: 202914 - NuPNET - Acknowledgment of Receipt
(202914_Final_Report11_20120222_120301_CET.pdf)
Dear Coordinator,
Thank you for submitting a scientific report for the project
202914 - NuPNET.
Your scientific report
Fourth(202914_Final_ReportNuPNET Governing Council
11_20120222_120301_CET.pdf) has been received
by the European Commission - Research and
Innovation DG.
Please note that this acknowledgement of receipt does not
imply that your report is complete or
accepted.
Commission - Research and Innovation DG.
Meeting
The 1st NuPNET Call
3 Topics = 16 proposals
Topic1 "R&D on new detector
technologies in NP":
9 proposals/ € 6.37million
Topic2 "R&D on EURISOL
technologies":
3 proposals/ € 1.24million
Topic3 "Targeted action on
nuclear structure, reaction theory"
4 proposals/ € 1.15million
Call Timeline
Running
Evaluation by
till 30/06/2011 independent
12 July
13 July
End July
Results
Automn 2011
Launch of
Pilot Activities
30/11/2011
NuPNET ends
Beyond 2011
=> 300 scientists involved
experts
Meeting of the
Peer Review Panel
Meeting of the
Involved
Funding Agencies
NuPNET 2… ?
Call Budget = €3.42M
vs. Requested = €8.76M
•Topic1:
2.15M vs. 6.37M
= 3 times
•Topic2:
0.78M vs. 1.24M
= 1.5 times
•Topic3:
0.49M vs. 1.15M
= 2 times
TOTAL REQUESTED
BUDGET: €8.76M
(€3.42M funding covered)
11 Partners signed an Involvement Agreement
Proposed budget
Bulgaria
Finland
France CEA
France IN2P3
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
Romania
Spain
United Kingdom
Total (k€)
Detector
R&D
70
0
80
100
750
100
100
250
300
300
100
2150
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EURISOL
R&D
0
180
0
250
0
100
0
250
0
0
0
780
Theory
Total (k€)
30
30
80
100
0
0
0
100
100
50
0
490
100
210
160
450
750
200
100
600
400
350
100
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Results of the first NuPNET Call (2011)
5 Projects selected
Project Title
Project
Acronym
GAmma detection with
New Advanced
Scintillators
GANAS
NEutron DEtector
developments for Nuclear
Structure, Astrophysics
and Applications
NEDENSAA
Advanced Fast Timing
Arrays with novel
scintillators and
photosensors
FATIMA
Enhanced Multi-Ionization
of short-Lived Isotopes at
EURISOL
EMILIE
Structure And Reactions
For Exotic Nuclei (Theory) SARFEN
Project
Coordinator
Topic
(*)
Agencies
Funding
(K€)
(**)
INRNE, CNRS-IN2P3, BMBF /
PT-GSI, INFN, NCBiR,
MICINN, STFC
Olof TengbladTopic 1
1001
J.Valiente
Dobon
INRNE, JY, CNRS-IN2P3,
Topic 1 BMBF/PT-GSI, INFN, MICINN
517
Luis Mario
Fraile
INRNE, CEA, CNRS-IN2P3,
BMBF/PT-GSI, INFN, IFINTopic 1 HH, MICINN
797
Pierre
Delahaye
Topic 2 JY, CNRS-IN2P3, INFN
INRNE, JY, CNRS-IN2P3,
NCBIR, IFIN-HH, MICINN,
P.Van Isacker Topic 3 STFC
613
410
3338
Week of Innovative Regions, Debrecen, June 7-9, 2011
Success at WIRE 2011
GANAS
GAmma detection with New Advanced Scintillators
GANAS
Status of EMILIE
Partner
Funds
Status
IN2P3 (coord)
250k€
145.5 k€ received at GANIL/ rest to
come
INFN
80 k€
INFN committed to start with delivering
the fund mid of 2012
HIL
159 k€
Funds available since Dec. 2011
JYFL
24 k€
Funds available; running costs of JYFL
513 K€
A kick off meeting was held on the 27th of October 2011 at IN2P3 in Paris. The first meeting was
held on the 26 of January 2012 during the SPIRAL 2 Week in GANIL.
The project starting date has been decided by the participants to be 1st of January 2012A
consortium agreement has been requested by the steering committee. A web site hosted by
GANIL has been created to exchange information between partners: http://www.emilieeurisol.eu.
Next steps
In 2012, the R&D proposed in EMILIE
The simulation and design of the EBIS debuncher – already started - should be completed
(GANIL – LPC Caen – JYFL)
•The simulation of microwave coupling in the future SPIRAL2/SPES ECRIS charge breeder should
have been started (INFN – LPSC)
•The design of the upgraded ECRIS charge breeder for SPIRAL – already started - should have
been completed (GANIL - LPSC)
The next meeting will be held at INFN-LNL in October 2012. Date is being fixed.
975K€
NEDENSAA - NUPNET project meeting
Kick off meeting of the NEutron DEtector developments for Nuclear
Structure, Astrophysics and Applications (NEDENSAA)
The NEDENSAA NUPNET project is an effort to pool available resources and on going
R&D by various groups throughout Europe with the aim of providing significant
improvements in neutron detection.
The project covers the various technologies and methods relevant for the
improvement of the detection of neutrons (the chemistry for development of new
scintillator materials, testing of the new materials as well as the comparison with
existing ones, the study of innovative concepts for neutron detection, scintillator
readout with SiPM, digital electronics as well as the study of the optimal geometry of
the neutron detectors with other detector arrays (such as Ge arrays).
Participating institutions (in a.o.): CEA (France), CIEMAT (Spain OK), CNRS/IN2P3
(France), IFIC (Spain OK), INFN (Italy OK), Institute for Nuclear Research and
Nuclear Energy (Bulgaria), The Scientific and Technological Research Council of
Turkey, Technical University Dresden (Germany OK) , University of Jyvaskyla
(Finland), University of Uppsala (Sweden).
Dates:
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 09:30 to Friday, February 17, 2012 - 14:00
Location: CIEMAT Building 1, Room B (Sala B)
SARFEN
Beyond NuPNET
Present status
 No FP7 call available
 Successful pilot call implementation
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
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Wide coverage of funding agencies
Teams are interested in the pilot call
Well organized peer review system
Monitoring necessary
 Keep NuPNET as a brand name
How to move on?
GC representatives VOTED as follows: “Are we ready to
work out a proposal for a NuPNET2?”
Result: YES* (by 15 votes out of 22).
GC representatives agreed to continue to work together in an informal
way and to come up with a proposal within 1 year. GC representatives also
agreed that NuPNET members, who are not today member of the NuPNET
CC, can join the NuPNET CC.
Therefore GC representatives agreed that each funding agency should find a
solution to pay for their possible costs when working on the proposal for
NuPNET2
GC representatives decided that the kick-off meeting of the workshop of
“Continuation beyond NuPNET” should be organized once we have a first
draft proposal in view of a NuPNET2.
Action :Reinforce NuPECC,NuPNET complementarity
by building a common working group to discuss the
content and goals of the new proposal in 2012
Thank you
for your attention
WP2 – Results of the Census – NuPNET
FUNDING of NP 515M€ /year
WP2 – Results of the Census – NuPNET
STAFF EMPLOYED Total 5,918
Main Results in NP
Nuclear Physics Workforce
14 member countries
• Number of physicists: 4,050
Nuclear Physics Budget
• National funding: € 459 million
(~25% are female researchers)
• FP6/FP7 funding: € ~13 million
• Number of engineers/techn.: 1,868
• Other funding:
TOTAL WORKFORCE: 5,918
TOTAL BUDGET: € 515 million
€ ~43 million
= more than 90% of the
total European budget for NP
Topics for the pilot trans-national call
 R&D on new detector technologies
 R&D on EURISOL technologies
 Targeted action on nuclear structure and reaction theory
Involvement agreement signed by the Involved Funding Agencies (IFA) and describing:
- terms of cooperation between IFA
- proposed budget per IFA and call topics
- common call procedure –Calendar of the call
- call description
Evaluation a three step process:
- two anonymous evaluations per proposal (May 1st until June 30)
a peer review panel ranking the proposals according to the anonymous evaluations and their
own criteria (meeting on July 12)
- final funding allocation following the ranking proposed by the peer review panel and the
budgetary boundaries (IFAs meeting on July 13)
Application for national funds
 In many countries the funding allocation is straight forward since the NuPNET
representation also has control on the budgets.
 In few cases (Spain, Poland) the NuPNET representation and the funding allocation are two
different bodies. In that case the eligible proposals should apply for funding using the national
rules and calls.
 Final decision on the funding per eligible proposal are expected before the end of the year.
 All projects may start on January 1st 2012.
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Projects follow-up
 According to the NuPNET Involved Agreement signed by the Involved Funding Agencies in the
first NuPNET call for trans-national proposals, all funded projects should deliver a mid-term and a
final scientific reports to the Common Call Secretariat.
 Each participant should also submit periodical financial and scientific reports and a final report to
its national funding agency. Any publications resulting from the funded projects must acknowledge
the national funding agencies and the ERA-NET NuPNET, and one copy must be sent electronically
to the NuPNET Common Call Secretariat (CCS).
 Template forms for the mid-term and final scientific reports are being prepared with the following
contents:
A. Project identification
B. Consortium identification
C. Project summary for public dissemination
D. Progress report (objectives achieved, activities, problems and workplan changes, …)
E. Dissemination (publications, conferences, patents, …)
F. Bried financial report
NuPNET fourth GC meeting, Santiago 3/10/2011
J. Benlliure