Friday, 30-07-2010      

NuPNET is an ERA-Net in the field of Nuclear Physics

NuPNET thus stands for Nuclear Physics Network.
With a budget of €1.3 million granted by the European Commission through the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) for a period of three years (2008-2011), NuPNET took up its activities on 1 March 2008 with a quite ambitious aim:

Provide Europe with a more coherent funding
of Nuclear Physics infrastructures and equipments.


Since the kick-off of the NuPNET project was given in Paris on March 27, 2008, members have met several times: at the NuPNET Open Days, when representatives from all founding institutions presented and discussed the national funding systems in Nuclear Physics; for the NuPNET Governing Council meetings, where representatives from funding agencies and ministries assemble to review the work done and decide upon the next steps and milestones to reach. The photo below shows the NuPNET consortium at the third session of the NuPNET Open Days in Milan.

NuPNET OD3

Indeed fourteen European countries are the founding members of NuPNET: Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom.

They are represented by eighteen institutions from ministries and research: