1. ENSAR2 Status and Progress
Muhsin N. Harakeh
Coordinator ENSAR2
on behalf of
ENSAR2 management group
NuPECC Meeting
16-17 March 2018
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2. First reporting period ended 31 August 2017 18 months + 2 months
ENSAR2 Started on:
1 March 2016
First reporting period ended 31 August 2017
18 months + 2 months
(reports have been submitted on 31 October 2017)
Mid-term Review of ENSAR2
30 January 2018
End date of ENSAR2 on:
March 1, 2020

3. ENSAR2 is the integrating activity (IA) for European nuclear scientists who are performing research in three of the six major subfields defined by NuPECC:
Nuclear Structure and Dynamics
Nuclear Astrophysics
Applications and Societal Benefits.
Its core aim is to provide access to nine of the complementary world-class large-scale facilities:
GANIL (F), GSI (D), LNL-LNS (I), JYFL (FI), KVI-CART (NL), CERN-ISOLDE (CH), ALTO (F), IFIN-HH/ELI-NP (RO) and NLC (PL) as well as ECT*

4. ENSAR2 Partners of 10 TNA Facilities 30 beneficiaries 15 countries
JYL
Community: scientists and highly qualified engineers
UoY
Close collaboration with infra-structures outside European Union:
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 4

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

6. 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: Gerda Neyens
Ari Jokinen
JRAs: Andres Gadea
Olof Tengblad
NAs: Silvia M. Lenzi
Christoph Scheidenberger

7. NA01-FISCO2 Management of the ENSAR2 project:
Coordination of all technical, scientific, financial, administrative, contractual and legal activities of the ENSAR2 Integrating Activity
Comments/news
Preparation and signatures of MoU with non-European Research Infrastructures
Impact Studies in progress (coordination: Sabrina Lecerf GANIL)
Submission of first periodic reports
Submission of an amendment of the Grant Agreement:
Modification of deliverables and milestones,
New Portuguese partner: FFCUL is replaced by FCiencias.ID by July 1st 2017.

8. NA01-FISCO2- Dissemination
D1.1: Dissemination of knowledge and outreach activities
ENSAR2 Web site created:
ENSAR2 participated in public outreach events and supported web site for layman:

9. 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 : 36 (Directors not included)
Number of meetings already performed
Three with the working group; Two with FCG members

10. Social, Environmental and Economic Impact Analysis
Actions performed since the beginning of ENSAR2
Set up of the working group
Thirty six persons involved
Meetings organised
Three meetings with working group
August 23rd, 2016
February 7th, 2017
July 4th, 2017
Two meetings with FCG group
October 6th, 2016
October 10th, 2017

11. Actions performed since the beginning of ENSAR2
Tools
ENSAR web site: (accessible for participants)

12. Tools Atrium Tool Tree structure Organisation : Aims:
Each RI has a person who is in charge of putting all own data  on ATRIUM
Aims:
Getting information at any time
Impact studies
3 categories + characterisation of each RI
Workspace for each RI
Each RI is represented

13. 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 physics
- Reducing the number of areas and indicators  for the three fields:
Economic impact
Social impact
Environmental impact

14. NA01-FISCO2-Task 2 : Studies and reporting Social, Environmental and Economic Impact Analysis
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

15. On 19 January, the enterprise selected is INNO TSD.
External enterprise
2 calls for tender:
1st call
14 enterprises asked to get information “call for tender”
2 (French enterprises ) answered and made an offer (invitation to tender void)
2nd call
15 enterprises have already asked to get information for the current “call for tender”
5 (French enterprises ) answered and made an offer. The selected enterprise should be hired at the end of January 2018.
On 19 January, the enterprise selected
is INNO TSD.

16. Social, Environmental and Economic Impact Analysis
Evaluation of existing practices in each RI
(state-of-the-art)
Case studies in each RI
Synthesis and final report made by the external enterprise
03/12/2018
Sending data to Sabrina Lecerf: 04/06/2018
Performing case studies in RI: 04/12/ /06/2018
Sending data to Sabrina Lecerf: 30/11/2017
Collecting Data in RI: 01/02 03/07/2017

17. 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.

18. 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 RIs:
Accelerator physics
Radiobiology, hadron therapy and other applications
Educational programme
(e.g., Euroschool on Exotic Beams)
International dimension

19. International dimension
Following the new rules, 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.

20. International dimension
The MoUs would be signed by the various directors of the international Research Infrastructures 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.
Similarly, the MoUs are valid up to 1 March 2020

21. Purpose of the memorandum
Example MoU
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.

22. 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.

23. Close collaboration with infrastructures outside European Union:
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
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; MoU signed on 13 March 2018
India: VECC Calcutta; No response
BARC Mumbai; No response
Canada: TRIUMF Vancouver; were not interested

24. 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
MoUs signed on 12 October 2017
We have negotiated a similar agreement with FRIB (Facility for Rare-Isotope Beams) Theory Alliance (at MSU) and ECT* to form the European-U.S. Theory Institute for Physics with Exotic Nuclei (EUSTIPEN).

25. Thank you for your attention