1. ENSAR2 Status and Progress ENSAR2 management group
Muhsin N. Harakeh
Coordinator ENSAR2
on behalf of
ENSAR2 management group
NuPECC Meeting
6-7 October 2017
Saclay, France

2. We had the Kickoff Meeting in Caen 16-17 March 2016
ENSAR2 Started on:
March 1, 2016
We had the Kickoff Meeting in Caen
16-17 March 2016
First reporting period ends 31 August 2017
18 months + 2 months (to submit reports)
End date on:
March 1, 2020

3. Organisation of ENSAR2 Meetings: 1 /year Meetings: 1 /year Meetings:

4. In connection with first reporting period ending 31 August 2017
There will be several meetings at GANIL next week:
1- FCG meeting on Tuesday, 10 October
2- PCC meeting on Wednesday, 11 October
3- GA meeting on Thursday, 12 October

5. Management Group
Coordinator: Muhsin N. Harakeh
Deputy Coordinator: Marek Lewitowicz
Manager: Ketel Turzó
Financial Officer: Veronique Vandevoorde
Administrative Officer: Sandrine Dubromel
Impact Studies Coordinator: Sabrina Lecerf-Rossard
General Assembly
Chair: Adam Maj
Executive Board of PCC
TNAs: Maria G. Borge  ???
Ari Jokinen
JRAs: Andres Gadea
Olof Tengblad
NAs: Silvia M. Lenzi
Christoph Scheidenberger

6. FInancial and Scientific COordination 2 Ketel Turzó
NAs
NA1-FISCO2
FInancial and Scientific COordination 2
Ketel Turzó
Managing Network to insure a smooth running of the ENSAR2 IA in all aspects of technical, scientific, financial, administrative, contractual and legal activities. It will supervise an impact study on TNA infrastructures and on ENSAR2 itself. FISCO2 will also stimulate dissemination of knowledge and outreach activities.

7. NA01-FISCO2-Grant Agreement→
Amendment on the GA:
Replacement of FFCUL by FCiencias.ID, whose PIC is , in the framework of the project ENSAR2. 
Modification of Milestone M18
Modification of Deliverables D6.2 to D6.5, D8.5

8. ENSAR2 Partners of 10 TNA Facilities 30 beneficiaries 15 countries
JYL
Community: scientists and highly qualified engineers
UoY
Close collaboration with infrastructures outside Europe:
Canada: TRIUMF Vancouver
China: IMP Lanzhou
India: BARC Mumbai?
VECC Calcutta
Japan: RIKEN Tokyo
RCNP Osaka
Russia: JINR Dubna
South Africa: iThemba Cape Town
United States: NSCL East Lansing ANL Argonne?
UWAR-HIL & IFJ PAN I
RUG-KVI
ULIV
JLU
KUL
Köln
GSI
GANIL
CEA
ULB
MedAustron
JOGU
ATOMKI-HAS
ARRONAX
ALTO-CNRS
LMU
ECT*
ELI-NP / IFIN-HH
USC
ISOLDE-CERN
LNL-INFN
CIEMAT
UMIL
FFCUL
NCSRD
CSIC
Univ. Sevilla
LNS-INFN 8

9. TNAs GANIL-SPIRAL2 (France) LNL-LNS (INFN, Italy)
ISOLDE (CERN, Switzerland)
JYFL (Finland)
ALTO (CNRS, France)
GSI (Germany)
KVI-CART (The Netherlands)
NLC (HIL/IFJ PAN, Poland)
IFIN-HH/ELI-NP (Romania)
ECT* (Italy)
NEW
NEW
NEW

10. ENSAR2 Research Infrastructures (ENRI)
Cooperation and Coordination Agreement between GANIL, LNL/LNS (INFN), ISOLDE (CERN), JYFL (JYU), ALTO (CNRS), GSI, KVI-CART, NLC (IFJ PAN & UNIWARSAW), IFIN-HH/ELI-NP, ECT* (FBK) and ENSAF network
Accelerator facilities
Experiments in nuclear (astro)physics
Nuclear theory
Expensive, technically advanced experimental equipment
Coordination
Facility Coordinating Group (FCG)
Directors, chairpersons of local PACs of the ENRI participating laboratories, a representative of ENSAF network and the coordinator of ENSAR2.

11. The mission of the overarching Facility Coordinating Group is to do the coordination and harmonisation between the ENSAR2 research infrastructures and also their PAC’s and thus go a long way in the spirit of the ‘Integrating activity’ programme through integration of the transnational access.
Further aspects of the collaboration between the laboratories:
Accelerator physics
Radiobiology, hadron therapy and other applications
Educational programme
(e.g., Euroschool on Exotic Beams)
International dimension

12. International dimension
ENSAR2 will be able to provide transnational access to ENRI facilities to international users from outside the European Union and associated countries. This could be up to 20% of the total ENSAR2 quantity of access allocated to transnational access. The coordinator of ENSAR2 will contact directors of international large research infrastructures in Canada, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, and USA to promote mutual collaboration on access to these international research infrastructures and ENRI facilities. The directors of the ENRI RIs with this ENRI agreement delegate the signature of the Memorandums of understanding (MoUs) between the international labs and ENSAR2 to the ENSAR2 coordinator. The MoUs would be signed by the various directors of the international labs and ENSAR2 coordinator in which the terms for access of European citizens to the international labs and vice versa will be recorded.
The ENRI agreement is valid through the contract period of ENSAR2 from 1 March 2016 to 1 March 2020.

13. Purpose of the memorandum
ARTICLE 1
Purpose of the memorandum
The objective of this MoU is to establish a general framework of collaboration and project relationship, implemented by RNC-RIKEN and IA ENSAR2 to increase cooperation between the Parties in general and to provide a framework for establishing specific collaborative activities between the parties. The collaboration aims:
to provide access to the facilities at RNC-RIKEN for European physicists and vice versa to the facilities of IA ENSAR2 RIs to Japanese physicists following the rules of the various infrastructures, i.e. approved projects based on scientific merits and feasibility, and
to increase cooperation and mutual support between the Parties in general.
APPENDIX I
Each Party shall be responsible for its own costs and expenses under this MoU, except as otherwise agreed in writing by the Parties. RNC-RIKEN will cover the daily expenses of European physicists, while performing experiments at RNC-RIKEN, according to local per diem rules and vice versa, IA ENSAR2 will cover the daily expenses of Japanese physicists, while performing experiments at IA ENSAR2 RIs, according to local per diem rules of the IA ENSAR2 RIs. In the case of IA ENSAR2 support, mutual spokesmanship for the experiments is required.

14. Close collaboration with infrastructures outside Europe:
Japan: RCNP Osaka; MoU signed on 30 January 2017
China: IMP-CAS Lanzhou; MoU signed on 3 March 2017
South Africa: iThemba Cape Town; MoU signed on 9 March 2017
Russia: JINR Dubna; MoU signed on 11 March 2017
Japan: RIKEN Tokyo; MoU signed on 30 March 2017
U.S.A.: NSCL East Lansing; MoU signed on 19 September 2017
ANL Argonne; No response
India: VECC Calcutta; No response
BARC Mumbai; No response
Canada: TRIUMF Vancouver; were not interested

15. Close collaboration with infrastructures outside Europe:
Japan: The Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, (KEK)
Center for Nuclear Study (CNS), University of Tokyo
Both at RIKEN
India: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
MoU will be signed on 12 October 2017

16. Thank you for your attention

17. NA01-FISCO2- Dissemination
D1.1: Dissemination of knowledge and outreach activities ENSAR 2 Web site created: Major scientific events held in 2016 with ENSAR2 support: • 13th Russbach School on Nuclear Astrophysics - March 6-12, Russbach, Austria • International Workshop on "In-Vivo Dosimetry" - May 19-20, LMU Munich, Germany • Carpathian Summer School of Physics June 26 – July 9, 2016, Sinaia, Romania • NUSPIN Workshop 2016 – June 27 – July 1, 2016 – San Servolo, Italy • ENSAF workshop on Accelerator operation and Management – October 19-21, 2016 – CNA Sevilla, Spain • IV International GEANT4 School - October 23-28, 2016 – Belgrade, Serbia • NuSPRASEN workshop – December 6th, 2016 – CERN, Switzerland ENSAR2 participated in public outreach events and supported web site for layman:

18. NA01-FISCO2-Task 2 : Studies and reporting Social, Environmental and Economic Impact Analysis
I. Reminder
Two complementary impact studies:
FISCO (socio-economic and environmental studies) wider scope
NUPIA (Innovation) based only on Nuclear physics
Deadlines:
- Milestone : mid-term report on month 18
- Deliverable D1.3: final report on month 36
II. List of partners involved in the socio economic and environmental study
12 RI
Number of people working on this study : 37 (Directors not included)
Number of meetings already performed
With the working group
- 23rd August 2016
- 7th February 2017
With FCG members
- 6th October 2016

19. NA01-FISCO2-Task 2 : Studies and reporting Social, Environmental and Economic Impact Analysis
IV. Situation
Beginning of 2017 : Result of the working group’s brainstorming  very broad approach.
Suggestion to shrink the scope:
- Concentrating only on Nuclear physic,
- Reducing the number of areas and indicators  for the three fields:
Economic impact
Social impact
Environmental impact
Current actions
February 2017 → June 2017 : State-of-the-art characterisation of each RI
- Description of the RIs (with their phase of design and construction) and their ecosystem/cluster in which they are installed.
All major links have to be highlighted.
+ SWOT Analysis of ENSAR2
+ Data collection on ENSAR2 + ENSAR
(for RIs involved in ENSAR). Submit end of 2018.
Aim:
to obtain an overarching description of RIs embedded in ENSAR2

20. PCC meeting on 9 May 2017 ENSAR2 TNA reporting
Budgeting
News
WP16
TA1
GANIL
WP17
TA2
LNL-LNS
WP18
TA3
ISOLDE
WP19
TA4
JYFL
WP20
TA5
ALTO
WP21
TA6
GSI
WP22
TA7
KVI-CART
WP23
TA8
NLC (HIL/IFJ PAN)
WP24
TA9
IFIN-HH/ELI-NP
WP25
TA10
ECT*
Labs and institutes involved are shown on the right
Relatively short reporting period in the beginning off the project
 Very few analyzed results
Payments are delayed so numbers may be smaller than an actual situation
 Use access cost is not constant
60-70 % success in gathering information, which in some cases came too late (Learning lesson for myself)
Ari Jokinen
Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä

21. ISOLDE / M. Borge
Summary (link)(file: ISOLDE_ENSAR2_TNA summary_April xlsx)
Non-EU payments (link)(file: ISOLDE_ENSAR2 Non-Eu payments April-Dec 2016.xlsx)

22. JYFL / M. Hilska Link (file: JYFL_Supported_experiments2016_2017
JYFL / M. Hilska Link (file: JYFL_Supported_experiments2016_2017.xlsx )
66 persons supported during the first year of ENSAR2
Total amount of support 59.7 k€, which agrees well with the steady usage of T&S (61.6 k€ / 12 months)
PAC statistics
Requested days
Given days
Success rate 71,5%
No. of proposals 389
Average number of proposals 17
Average number of pending days 383 ( days)
March 2017 PAC:
23 exp’s, of which only 3 are ”JYFL”-proposals
232 days requested altogether

23. ECT*

24. During PCC meeting of 9 May, it was reported that all NAs and JRAs are on schedule, except for a few delays. The dates have to be changed by modifying the Grant Agreement, e.g.,
Modification of Milestone M18
Modification of Deliverables D6.2 to D6.5, D8.5
Some interesting results were achieved. The presentations can be downloaded from the ENSAR2 website.
Last point: Letter of Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General at Research and Innovation Directorate-General of European Commission, about open access obligations in Horizon 2020, which apply to peer reviewed scientific publications.

25. Milestones up to January 1, 2017 have all been met.
Kick-off meetings for all NAs and JRAs have taken place and some workshops have been organised.
ENSAR2 research infrastructures have already allocated beam time with ENSAR2 support and ECT* has supported workshops.
We will hear more about the activities today.
Last point: Letter of Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General at Research and Innovation Directorate-General of European Commission, about open access obligations in Horizon 2020, which apply to peer reviewed scientific publications.

27. ENSAR2 is the Horizon-2020 integrating activity for European nuclear scientists who are performing research in three of the major subfields defined by NuPECC: Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Tools and Applications. It proposes an optimised ensemble of Networking, Joint Research and Transnational Access Activities, which will ensure qualitative and quantitative improvement of the access provided by the current ENSAR2 research infrastructures.
ENSAR2’s core aim is to provide access to nine of the complementary world-class large-scale facilities: GANIL (F), GSI (D), joint LNL-LNS (I), JYFL (FI), KVI-CART (NL), CERN-ISOLDE (CH), ALTO (F), joint IFIN-HH/ELI-NP (RO) and NLC (PL). These facilities provide stable and radioactive ion beams of excellent qualities ranging in energies from tens of keV/u to a few GeV/u and intense photon beams up to 20-MeV energy. Furthermore, the infrastructure ECT* (I) will provide a unique place for meetings, seminars and workshops to the community.

28. The Networking Activities (NAs) of ENSAR2 have been set-up with specific actions to strengthen the community’s work in Transnational Access Activities and Joint Research Activities (JRAs). They promote foresight studies for new instrumentation and methods, stimulate complementarity, ensure a broad dissemination of results and stimulate multidisciplinary and application-oriented research and innovation at the Research Infrastructures. They aim to strengthen the community’s coherence regarding particular research topics, to pool resources and to provide instruction courses to users.

29. NAs NA1-FISCO2: FInancial and Scientific COordination 2 Ketel Turzó
Managing Network to insure a smooth running of the ENSAR2 IA in all aspects of technical, scientific, financial, administrative, contractual and legal activities. It will supervise an impact study on TNA infrastructures and on ENSAR2 itself. FISCO2 will also stimulate dissemination of knowledge and outreach activities.
NA2-NuSPRA(SEN): Nuclear Structure Physics, Reactions and Astrophysics (and Superheavy Elements Network)
Christoph Scheidenberger
Provides a forum to discuss the scientific interests of the nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics communities (including EURISOL community), the progress in these subfields and the optimisation of the use of the large RIs for that purpose.

30. NA4-NUSPIN: Nuclear Spectroscopy Instrumentation Silvia Lenzi
NA3-MIDAS: MInimisation of Destructive plASma processes in ECR ion sources
Hannu Koivisto
Supports developments of ion sources by academic and industrial (AVS and PANTECHNIK) experts and organises trainings and workshops on this topic for the community.
NA4-NUSPIN: Nuclear Spectroscopy Instrumentation
Silvia Lenzi
Aims at pooling and optimising the use of the valuable resources for high resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy and coordinating their use at the facilities. Instruction courses for young scientists and engineers to get them acquainted with these techniques are part of this activity.
NA5-MediNet (ASTARTE+ Ion-Beam Therapy)
Peter Thirolf & Giulio Magrin
Is devoted to nuclear physics for medicine through the developments of beam and detection techniques and of ion-beam therapy.

31. NA6-GDS: Gas-filled Detectors and Systems Geoff Grinyer
Gathers experts of gas-filled detectors and systems (Active targets/TPC gaseous detectors) to develop new techniques to overcome constraints such as high-intensity beams and strong non-uniform magnetic fields.
NA7-ENSAF: European Network of Small-scale Accelerator Facilities
Sotirios Harissopulos
Is a network of small-scale accelerators to support technical developments and tests for experiments at large-scale infrastructures
NA8-NuPIA: Nuclear Physics Innovation
Marie-Hélène Moscatello
Is a transversal activity to support innovation through bridging between academic research and industry, impact study and training of industrial personnel in research institutions.

32. To enhance the access to the ENSAR2 facilities, the community has defined a number of Joint Research Activities (JRAs) using as main criterion scientific and technical promise. These activities deal with novel and innovative technologies to improve the operation of the ENSAR2 facilities and make the most efficient and effective use of them. They are in general relevant to more than one facility and rely on strong participation of the European university groups.
These activities involve all facets of operation of an accelerator facility.

33. JRAs
JRA1-PASPAG: Phoswich scintillator assemblies: Application to the Simultaneous detection of PArticle and Gamma radiation
Olof Tengblad
Studies detection of particles and gamma rays with phoswich scintillators allowing for simultaneous detection with same detector array. PASPAG will also develop applications of detection systems for homeland security.
JRA2-PSeGe: Position-Sensitive Germanium detectors for nuclear structure and applications
Andres Gadea
Is focused on 3-dimensional position-sensitive Ge detectors dedicated to nuclear structure and applications in imaging.

34. JRA4-RESIST: RESonance IoniSation Techniques for separators Iain Moore
JRA3-TheoS: Theoretical Support for nuclear facilities in Europe - Nuclear Structure & Reactions
Denis Lacroix
Is a theory support activity to experiments in nuclear structure and reactions.
JRA4-RESIST: RESonance IoniSation Techniques for separators
Iain Moore
Develops resonance laser ionisation techniques for the production of high-purity beams of radioactive ions.
JR5-SATNuRSE: Simulations and Analysis Tools for Nuclear Reactions and Structure in Europe
Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki
Is devoted to simulations, developments of analysis tools and data management.

35. JR6-EURISOL facility (all stages) Yorick Blumenfeld
Develops techniques and tools for current and future ISOL facilities, such as charge breeders, beam production and a dissemination tool to inform the community on available beams and intensities.
JR7-TecHIBA: Technologies for High Intensity Beams and Applications
Faiçal Azaiez
Aims at accelerator and instrumentation developments in the framework of high-intensity stable ion beams.
Includes a task on radio-isotopes for therapy and medical imaging

36. BUDGET
Total budget for ENSAR2: €
to share between 30 beneficiaries
Pre-financing: €
Next funding: after validation
of each periodic report