Alex C. Mueller for EURONSNuPECC Meeting, Venice (Italy), 18.-19. March 2005 I3 EURONS: a status...

NuPECC Meeting, Venice (Italy), 18.-19. March 2005Alex C. Mueller for EURONS

I3 EURONS: a status report to NuPECC

March 2005

http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/index_en.html


• May/June 2002: Information to the European nuclear structure community by FINUPHY (Frontiers in Nuclear Physics, EU funded project within FP5)

• FINUPHY Meeting at Trento (28 Oct.2002)First presentation of ideas for JRAs

• FINUPHY Meeting of the Writing Committee at Mainz (7 Dec.2002)Selection of JRAs, suggestion of fundings for JRAs, TNAs, and Networks

• FINUPHY Meeting of Writing Committee, Coordinator, and Managing Institution at the occasion of the NuPECC Town Meeting at Darmstadt (31 Jan.2003)

Status and follow-ups of former decisions• FINUPHY Meeting at Catania (27/28 Feb.2003)

Presentation of status, assignment of individual and overall budgets• 11-14 April: submission to the EC, handing in „in person“

„Concerted action“ by A. C. Mueller, C. Scheidenberger, and Jean Vervier (!)

• End of August 2003: Evaluation Summary Report

EURONS - Milestones



• It was difficult to be on the "pole position" on the reserve list......

•....and help and lobbying was needed - NuPECC meeting at Frascati, 5.-6.Dec. 2003- Initiative by Sydney Galès

(joined action by former NuPECC chairs)

• ....and a positive outcome to enter contract negotiations



Contract negotiations

Contained "hidden" additional reductionand the most negative interpretation for EXL and EXOCHAP

Negotiated: 48 months to stay in-line with original timing



On the cancellation of EXOCHAP

• May 2004– action by Muhsin Harakeh and Alex C. Mueller to coordinate

EXL and EXOCHAP

• June/July 2004– negotiation with EC to increase budget for reasonable

execution of EXOCHAP– appeal to EC infrastructure director R.J.Smits

(by Walter F. Henning and Alex C. Mueller)

• September 2004– impossibility to achieve a reasonable budget for EXOCHAP– cancellation of EXOCHAP



Start of EURONS

• November 2004– Contract signature by EC and managing institution– EURONS starting date: 1. Jan. 2005

• December 2004– Signature with contractors launched– 80% of first 18-months budget received from EC

• January 2004– preparation of 1st PCC meeting

• February 2004– PCC meeting at Madeira (7.-8.Feb.), implementation of decisions

• March 2004– Money transfer to contractors– Finalization of Consortium Agreement



Budgets for Access, Networks, and JRAs

• Networking and integrating activities: 1.456 k€

• Access to infrastructures: 6.590 k€

• Joint research activities: 6.010 k€ total:14.056 k€



Access facilities within EURONS

Louvain

Legnaro

Darmstadt

CERN

Groningen

GANIL

Jyväskylä

Trento (ECT*)



JRAs - OverviewACTAR H.Savajols GANILACtive TARget detectors for the study of extremely exotic nuclei using direct reactions AGATA W.Korten CEA SaclayAdvanced GAmma Tracking ArrayCharge Breeding O.Kester LMU Munic Advanced charge breeding of radioactive ionsDLEP O. Tengblad CISC MadridDetection of Low-Energy Particles from exotic b-decaysEXL N.Kalantar KVIEXotic nuclei studied with Light hadronic probes INTAG P.Butler Univ. LiverpoolINstrumentation for TAGing ISIBHI G. Ciavola LNS CataniaIon Sources for Intense Beams of Heavy IonsLASER P.Van Duppen Univ. LeuvenLASer techniques for Exotic nuclei ResearchRHIB T.Aumann GSIReactions with High-Intensity Beams of exotic nucleiSAFERIB P.Thirolf LMU MunicRadiation protection issues related to radioactive ion-beam facilitiesTRAPSPEC N.Severijns Univ. LeuvenImprovements and developments of ion traps, spectrometers, and detectors for low-e. nucl. physics experimentsEU contribution: 6.010 M€



Networks - Overview

Network name Goal Coordinator Institute

MANET Management of EURONS Alex C. Mueller IPN Orsay (CNRS/IN2P3) and GSI Darmstadt

CARINA Nuclear Astrophysics Carmen Angulo CRC, Louvain-la-NeuveGAMMAPOOL Gamma resources in Europe Silvia Lenzi INFN PadovaNEEN North-East European Network Rafal Broda Univ. Warsaw / KrakowMapping NuPECC mapping studies Sissy Körner NuPECCPANSI3 Public Awareness of Nucl.Sci. Helmut Leeb TU ViennaSEEN South-East-European Network Sotirios HarissopulosNCSR Demokritos / AthensSHE Superheavy elements Antonio Villari GANILTNET Theory Network Ian Thomson Univ. Surrey

Sum 1.456 M€




How to manage the consortium?• Formally: consortium agreement

• Practically the following questions should be discussed/answered:

How is the consortium organized? How can decisions be taken? What and how will be monitored? How will results be disseminated?

Management Issues



How is the consortium organized?

Administrative Project

Controlling

Activity coordinator

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Project Coordinator: Alex C. Mueller / IPN Orsay

Managing Institution: GSI Darmstadt

Executive Board Project Coordination Committee (PCC)

European Commission (EU)

• Activity Coordinators• PCC• GA• Project Coordinator• Project Controlling



Standard "tools" of Project Management– Tasks

– Milestones

– Deliverables

Implemented in an overall coherent database via the "activity sheets" of

each activity, basically one page, to be updated by the activity coodinator

every 6 month.

What and how will be monitored?



Task:• "Active" contribution to the objectives of the activity

• Start and end-date (milestone and/or deliverable)

• Responsible participant / lead contractor

• A task usually comprises several sub-tasks and participants



Milestones:Milestones are "landmark" results that are to be achieved during the project and are crucial to the successful continuation of the project and also to reliable periodic progress assessments of the project.

For every sub-task there must be at least one milestone (if necessary, there might be more than one).



Deliverables:

Deliverables are expected to be realised from a particular task. Typical deliverables may include • reports • guidelines • protocols • technical description of prototypes, etc.

The type and dissemination level of a deliverable should be indicated:• report, prototype, demonstrator, other• confidential, restricted access or public

For every task there must be at least one deliverable(there might be more than one if necessary)

Lead contractor/responsible participant



Activity Information Sheet

Purpose:• Update and "point of reference" at time T=0 • Keep track of activities in 6-month intervals:

- monitor progress of the work (to some extent)- monitor financial information (dto.)- complemented by cost statements

• Evaluate and judge the obtained information– is the project on target?– what efforts have been made?

• Last but not least:– facilitate the work of activity coordinators– review and control work, budget, individual costs, etc.



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Essence:monitoring and controlling

instead of

administration, prescriptions, and micro-management



EURONS

Summary: • EURONS is an I3 (Access + Networking + JRAs)

(successor of FINUPHY)

• The "heart" of EURONS are its worldclass facilities• Goals are:

– focus on activities that are in general relevant to more than one facility – reach coherence in ongoing developments, pooling and efficient use of resources, – improve existing infrastructures– increase access to infrastructures– foster networking activities– ensure that the European Nuclear Structure Community concentrates on the most prominent Joint

Research Activities– preserve and even extend the leading role of Europe in nuclear structure physics– install an efficient project management culture in the nuclear physics community, for future endeavors


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