Structuring and integrating the European Sample Clauses

Structuring and integrating the European accelerator community The EuCARD-2 consortium has mobilised more than 350 participants, representing major European laboratories, research institutes, universities and industries. The members operate very large or large- scale world renowned accelerator infrastructures or contribute to their construction and upgrades or to the R&D for future infrastructures. With its four Annual Meetings, its 54 thematic Workshops, its more than 40 other events, and the common daily effort on R&D activities that took place in Networks, Transnational Access and Joint Research Activities, EuCARD-2 has created a culture of open collaboration and exchange of ideas and information, across borders and technical cultures, and between academia and industry. While in the past, accelerator R&D and project design were predominantly carried out in individual laboratories, the partnerships at the European level created by FP6 CARE, FP7 EuCARD and now EuCARD-2, continue to enhance a culture of collaboration that is recognized at world level. This includes scientific communities outside of Europe, as testified by the appreciating remarks expressed in the reports of the EuCARD-2 Scientific Advisory Committee, where two out of the three members come from outside of Europe. The deliberate choice to favour a large number of partners, in spite of the limited budget, has been instrumental in enhancing cross-fertilization between European accelerator laboratories, including CERN, Universities, Technology Institutes and SMEs. The impact of the EuCARD-2 strategy can be measured by the number of new collaborations formed within EuCARD-2 that will now continue inside the next project ARIES or independently. WP4 on accelerator applications has been particularly active in creating new collaborations and supporting existing collaborations, in initiating new studies, and promoting the exchange of ideas on common specific subjects and fostering dialogue between political/official representatives from EC institutions, scientific experts and industry. Examples include collaborations to study water and biological sludge treatment, including institutes from Ghana and Uganda, and European water companies; a collaboration to study aspects of accelerator-driven BNCT; a collaboration between the scientific institutes PSI, LBNL (USA) and the company Varian to build a prototype of a SC magnet based on a canted-cosine-theta design. WP5 greatly contributed to strengthening the synergies between previously separated...