One of the main achievements of the IDEAAL project is the preparation and approval by the board of directors of GANIL in 2019 of “General provisions for the status of Scientific Partner at GANIL-SPIRAL2”. This document gives the definition of the scientific partnership, the ways to conclude partnerships, the status of scientific partner, and the rights and duties of the partners. On the basis of this document, partnerships have been negotiated with collaborators. The contacts were made with collaborators from Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium, Romania, Spain and Germany. The status of discussions/negotiations with different partners is the following:
- the COPIN consortium representing Poland signed with GANIL-SPIRAL2 a Memorandum of Understanding in April 2020, in with intention to become a scientific partner;
- Czech Republic and GANIL-SPIRAL2 have reached an agreement on a partnership, which would grant to NPI the status of Scientific partner at GANIL-SPIRAL2. The agreement was signed by GANIL and NPI but unfortunately withdrawn few weeks later due to the decision of French funding agencies DRF/CEA and IN2P3/CNRS in the end of 2020 to abandon the strategy and the methodology elaborated in the framework of IDEAAL.
The IDEAAL project provided GANIL with all the elements needed to start a fundraising campaign, in particular, the leaflet with arguments to highlight GANIL, its offer and vision, message to donors, and motivation towards the patronage. GANIL received a permission for collecting donations and allowing its future sponsors to benefit from tax deduction. An elaborated by IDEAAL methodology for the in-kind contributions was applied successfully in practice for contributions to the SPIRAL2 facility of NPI (Czech Republic). A new organization of the GANIL-SPIRAL2 users was established and a corresponding user database was created. The GANIL-SPIRAL2 users formed GANIL Users Group which elected/appointed the GANIL User Executive Committee (GUEC). The new data base of the GANIL users contains more than 900 persons.
The IDEAAL team prepared a code of conduct for users. The update of GANIL access policy and a customer request procedure have been elaborated, as well as the clear proposal for creation of a new user office. The analysis of the costs for serving the users was completed. The corresponding powerful tool is available for internal users covering all configurations of the experiments performed at GANIL/SPIRAL2. The editorial work on the data policy and data management plan (DMP) was accomplished on time. The DMP is fully applicable at GANIL since the beginning of 2021. The project allowed to realise an inventory of technical and administrative practices at GANIL, a basis for the ongoing modification of GANIL internal organisation.
The IDEAAL team prepared transnational access for industrial users. The international selection panel on transnational access was settled and several calls for experimental proposals were launched. The beam time was provided to one of the selected experiments. In parallel, the mapping of existing potential industrial applications at GANIL was done and new contacts were created with industries. The contract for the transfer of know-how for the beam profile monitors was signed in 2020. A very important potential for development of innovations, applications and transfer of technology at GANIL/SPIRAL2 was clearly demonstrated.
The project, allowed for a harmonization of GANIL graphic identity, strengthening the communication towards members and funding partners through the laboratory highlights, a new GANIL electronic newsletters and a new laboratory poster. For the benefit of GANIL users, a new GANIL website, a renewal of the internal broadcast system, a new GANIL user community portal, an organization of EURORIB’18 conference of Colloque GANIL 2017 and 2019, of the two international symposia and recently of the most important international conference on accelerators IPAC’20 were achieved. Posters and flyers for scientific and industrial users were created. For the layman, the GANIL brochure was updated. IDEAAL supported active participation of the GANIL personnel in French science festival and general public lectures.
