Objectif
ULICE is a 4-year project set up by 20 leading European research organisations, including 2 leading European industrial partners (Siemens and IBA), to respond to the need for greater access to hadron therapy facilities for particle therapy research. Project coordinator is the Italian Research Infrastructure Facility CNAO (Milan). Both existing European Hadron Research Facilities in Heidelberg and Milan are partner and together with the next operational centre (Philipps-Universität Marburg; yr4) they will provide 624 hours of beam-time (141 users, 52 projects) to external researchers. Future facilities like MedAustron, Etoile and Archade also participate in ULICE, which will result in a strong integrated network. Full exploitation of all different resources, unrestricted spread of information and the improvement of existing and upcoming facilities are provided by using grid-based data sharing. The project is built around 3 pillars with measurable outputs. These outputs will be exploited by the (future) facilities and (partly by) the industrial partners: 1. JRA - focus on development of instruments and protocols: new gantry design, improvement of four-dimensional particle beam delivery, adaptive treatment planning, mechanisms for patient selection to the whole European Community and database development for specific tumours which can best be treated using carbon ion. 2. Networking - increasing cooperation between facilities and research communities wanting to work with the research infrastructure. Outputs will be (among others): a report on recommendations for strategically optimal locations for future RIs throughout Europe, training to new users 3. Transnational access: 2-step approach, using a combination of pre-defined (within ULICE) clinical trial programmes to allow researchers with patients to visit the facility, and radiobiological and physics experiments to take place.
Champ scientifique
Appel à propositions
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-1
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Régime de financement
CP-CSA-Infra - Combination of CP and CSACoordinateur
27100 Pavia Pv
Italie
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Participants (19)
1090 Wien
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69120 Heidelberg
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1211 GENEVE 23
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2700 Wiener Neustadt
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35037 Marburg
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64291 Darmstadt
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17177 Stockholm
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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01069 Dresden
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80333 Munchen
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1348 Louvain La Neuve
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8200 Aarhus
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6525 XZ Nijmegen
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1348 Ottignies Louvain La Neuve
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00044 Frascati
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31 342 Krakow
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14076 CAEN
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69622 Villeurbanne Cedex
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