EURONS 1st annual report: Generalities (I)

1. EURONS 1st annual report: Generalities (I) • With an EC contribution of 14,056,000 € EURONS is a rather sizable contract. • Such a project requires special care and dedicated measures of monitoring and control. • These activities are pursued by the MANET Network. • The challenge for the project management is not to be viewed by the scientific community as an additional administrative burden, but rather as a means of simplification and optimization. • The interface between the community and the project management is assured by the Project Coordination Committee (PCC), which is composed out of all Activity Co-ordinators. EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

2. EURONS 1st annual report: Generalities (II) • The project controlling was finalized and approved by the PCC during its first meeting in Funchal (Madeira, Portugal) in February 2005. • All activities have agreed on a common and streamlined • approach. In particular, an Activity Information Sheet (AIS) • has been developed for internal use to collect, display and • monitor information and progress of the activities. • This standardized sheet allows easy electronic processing and • analysis. • This further allows an easy integration into web-based • information, which is anyhow EURONS' preferred information • interchange platform (see http://www.gsi.de/EURONS). EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

3. Milestones reached in 2005 EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

4. Deliverables accomplished in 2005 EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

5. EURONS spendings of EC-contribution in 2005 INFRASTRUCTURES EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

6. EURONS spendings of EC contribution in 2005 All contractors (except Infrastructures) EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

7. EURONS spendings of EC contribution in 2005 "Deviation" from initial implementation plan EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

8. Financial Flow of EC-Funding (planned vs.achieved) EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

9. General Observations: 1. "Access" • Access was extensively used by the nuclear structure community. • The implementation of access activities led to a further access • facilitation due to the streamlining of the modalities. All • facilities have set up users selection panels and have held • selection panel meetings. Most of the access activities have also • held users meetings. • It turns out, that the inherent flexibility of an I3 is quite • adequate to compensate for technical imponderabilities affecting • the facility access. This allows to adjust the cash flow according • to the actual users' needs. • Overall, 101 user projects have been supported, the access of • 590 individual users was promoted, and 6062 beam units were • devoted to the EURONS project. EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

10. General Observations: 2. "Networking" • The networking activities aim at fostering future collaborations, • pooling of resources and dissemination of results. • Some of these activities have not yet started (in accordance • with their schedule), others have already reached important • first achievements. • For instance CARINA has held a first workshop on "Perspectives • in European Nuclear Astrophysics", with the goal of an • assessment on quests in nuclear astrophysics and a preliminary • mapping of European collaborations, laboratories, and • instrumentation in this field. • Also EWON has already installed working groups, has held • several collaboration meetings, and started mapping activities of • nuclear physics in the south-east European countries of EWON • participants. EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

11. General Observations: 3. "JRA" Joint research activities have already contributed to an improvement of performance and capabilities of the facilities. New ion sources and related techniques lead to the availability of more intense primary beams, to improved emittance of extracted beams, to a higher selectivity and purity of secondary beams. Also safety aspects related to intense secondary beams are addressed. Simulations aiming at novel detection concepts and tests with new detectors and/or prototypes show first promising results. All activities are in full swing and on track. EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

12. General Observations: 4. "Info-Xchange" • The web-based information exchange within EURONS and the • dissemination to the science community and the public is fully • operational. • The efficient use of such electronic media, which is one of the • prime goals of the EURONS management, speeds up the • information sharing between the participants working in • different universities and institutes. • In this context, it is also observed, that resources allocated • for management purposes are well justified. EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

13. General Observations: 5. "NuPECC" • NuPECC, the European nuclear physics collaboration committee, is regularly informed about the progress of EURONS and asked for input and advice. • Conversely, NuPECC will also rely heavily on its dedicated networking activity within EURONS in order to contribute to define its long term scientific policy. • Coordination efforts have been started with the EURISOL design study and the NUSTAR collaboration. EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006

14. "Overall, it is to be noted that all activities are well on schedule. Therefore the implementation plan for the next period does not contain any significant deviation from the contract." (end of the "summary" of the Annual Report") Certain EURONS "paperwork" is apparently "appreciated" by other communities/coordinnators: - FZK (Annex 1) - ENEA (Consortium Agreement) Concluding Remarks EURONS PCC-Meeting, Mainz (Germany), 06.-07. April 2006