Tuesday, 09-02-2010      

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.


The kick-off meeting took place in Paris on March 27, 2008, and the photo below shows the NuPNET consortium members who launched this European initiative.



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:
 
  • BMBF, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany
  • CEA, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, France
  • CNRS/IN2P3, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, France (the co-ordinator of the project)
  • FECYT, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Spain
  • FNRS, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium
  • FWO-V, Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, Belgium
  • GSRT, Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece
  • HIP, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland
  • IFIN HH, Institutul national de cercetare - dezvoltare pentru Fizica si Inginerie Nucleara "Horia Hulubei", Romania
  • INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
  • INRNE, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
  • MICINN, Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación, Spain
  • NCBiR, Narodowe Centrum Badan i Rozwoju, Poland
  • NKTH, National Office for Research and Technology, Hungary
  • NPI ASCR, Nuclear Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
  • PT-GSI, Projektträger des BMBF für Hadronen- und Kernphysik bei GSI, Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung Gmb, Germany
  • RuG, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
  • STFC, Science and Technology Facilities Council, U.K.

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