Objective
Particle physics stands at the threshold of a new era of discovery and insight. Results from the much awaited LHC are expected to shed light on the origin of mass, supersymmetry, new space dimensions and forces. In July 2006 the European Strategy Group for Particle Physics defined accelerator priorities for the next 15 years in order to consolidate the potential for discovery and conduct the required precision physics. These include an LHC upgrade, R&D on TeV linear colliders and studies on neutrino facilities. These ambitious goals require the mobilisation of all European resources to face scientific and technological challenges well beyond the current state-of-the-art and the capabilities of any single laboratory or country. EuCARD will contribute to the formation of a European Research Area in accelerator science, effectively creating a distributed accelerator laboratory across Europe. It will address the new priorities by upgrading European accelerator infrastructures while continuing to strengthen the collaboration between its participants and developing synergies with industrial partners. R&D will be conducted on high field superconducting magnets, superconducting RF cavities which are particularly relevant for FLASH, XFEL and SC proton linacs, two-beam acceleration, high efficiency collimation and new accelerator concepts. EuCARD will include networks to monitor the performance and risks of innovative solutions and to disseminate results. Trans-national access will be granted to users of beams and advanced test facilities. Strong joint research activities will support priority R&D themes. As an essential complement to national and CERN programmes, the EuCARD proposal will strengthen the European Research Area by ensuring that European accelerator infrastructures further improve their performance and remain at the forefront of global research, serving a community of well over 10,000 physicists from all over the world.
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Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-1
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CP-CSA-Infra - Combination of CP and CSACoordinator
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1210 Wien
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14109 Berlin
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630090 Novosibirsk
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75015 PARIS 15
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28040 MADRID
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75794 Paris
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16133 Genova
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28006 Madrid
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22607 Hamburg
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63450 HANAU
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01328 Dresden
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76131 Karlsruhe
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64291 Darmstadt
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31 342 Krakow
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00044 Frascati
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05 400 Otwock
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10129 Torino
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5232 Villigen Psi
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50-370 Wroclaw
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TW20 0EX Egham
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123182 MOSCOW
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SO17 1BJ Southampton
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SN2 1SZ SWINDON
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90 924 Lodz
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33720 Tampere
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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38041 GRENOBLE
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LA1 4YW Lancaster
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2080 MSIDA
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1211 Geneve
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M13 9PL Manchester
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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18055 Rostock
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751 05 Uppsala
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00-661 WARSZAWA
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2444 SEIBERSDORF
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