Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics ELI - NP

ELI-NP Team, November 14, 2012

2006 – ELI on ESFRI Roadmap

ELI-PP 2007-2010 (FP7) ELI-Beamlines (Czech Republic) ELI-Attoseconds (Hungary) ELI-Nuclear Physics (Romania)

ELI-DC (Delivery Consortium): April 2010

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Extreme Light Infrastructure

ELI-NP

NUCLEARTandem acc.

Cyclotronγ – Irradiator

Adv. DetectorsLife & Env.

RadioisotopesReactor

(decomm.)Waste Proc.

ring rail/road

BUCHAREST

LasersPlasma

OptoelectronicsMaterial Physics

Theoretical PhysicsParticle Physics

Bucharest-Magurele Physics CampusNational Physics Institutes

To turn its strength to the best account, the institute concentrates resources on two directions: (a) steadily develop a sound in-house capability to get and stay in the forefront of nuclear science and technology; and (ii) substantively participate in the European collaborations centered on Large Scale Facilities such as GSI-Darmstadt (Germany), GANIL-Caen (France), CERN (Geneva), JINR (Dubna). This is a strategy meant to harmonize limited domestic resources with the tall orders of the contemporary, top-level nuclear physics research, and the imperative need for Continental co-operation and integration.

• February-April 2010

Scientific case “White Book” (100 scientists, 30 institutions) (www.eli-np.ro)

approved by ELI-NP International Scientific Advisory Board• August 2010: Feasibility Study: 293 Meuro w/o VAT:

Buildings: 60 M€

Lasers: 60 M€

Gamma Beam: 60 M€

Beam Transport 20 M€

Exp. equipments: 30 M€

• August 2011 – March 2012: Technical Design• January 2012: Submission of the application to the E.C.• July 2012: Government Decision approving the construction of ELI-NP• September 2012: Approval of the application by the E.C.

ELI-NP “Start-up” Activities

ELI-NPMain buildings Lasers

Gamma

experiments

Laboratories

Letters of Intend

Workshop "Experimental Programme at ELI-NP“, Bucharest October 3-5, 2012.

Working groups to write the TDRs and Cost Book

Technical Design Reports (TDR) for Experiments

ELI-NP Next Steps

• August 2012: Tender Procedures

• January 2013- November 2014: Civil Construction• June 2015 : Lasers and Gamma Beam – Phase 1• June 2017 : Lasers and Gamma beam Phase 2• 2012-2014: TDR for experiments• 2014-2017: experimental set-ups• June 2017: beginning of operation

Impact of ELI-NP

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ELI-NP will produce an impact on each and every point where Romania suffers from a lack of competitiveness• World-class research infrastructure• Collaboration with the local for-profit sector (contractual research)• Knowledge and technology transfer as a primary objective• Publications in high ranked ISI-indexed journals• Significant expectations in terms of International Patents• +200 positions of researchers

ELI-NP Academic Forum

• Long-term partnerships with academic institutions• Implement initiatives enabling the ELI-NP project to secure the fulfilment of its needs in

terms of PhD students, junior researchers, engineers, and technicians (creation of training

programs, specific MSc and PhD programs, etc.). • Partnerships will also facilitate the dissemination of the results of the ELI-NP Project to the

local academic community. • A forum where academic institutions are encouraged to define, with the beneficiary and its

two Partners, the initiatives of various kinds that could support the ELI-NP Project in the

achievement of its objectives in terms of scientific excellence. • initiatives that would be created within the framework of the Academic Consortium shall

lead to the signature of bilateral agreements between the beneficiary and the institution(s)

involved in each particular initiative.

1st Meeting: April 24th, 2012. Magurele.

ELI-NP Industrial Forum

• Body promoting relationships with local and foreign companies. • Objective of the ELI-NP team: focus on the development with the business and industrial

sector (promotion of contractual research, technology transfer and commercialisation of

results, etc.). • Activities will focus on the local context, but some major companies from other countries will

also be interested • Associating local companies with foreign companies is consequently an important objective

of the ELI-NP Industrial Forum. • Members are encouraged to set up initiatives consistent with the objectives of the ELI-NP

project in terms of socio-economic impact (local development, creation of jobs, etc.).• Further initiatives, such as consulting services provided by ELI-NP experts to companies, can

naturally be negotiated within the framework of the ELI-NP Industrial Forum.

1st Meeting: April 25th, 2012. Magurele.

Conclusions

• Romania was missing a world-class research facility• Positive direct effects on the local economic environment• Education – high-level training in science and engineering• Increasing employment opportunities in research, decreasing brain drain• Stimulating effects on high-tech industries• Opportunities for frontier research for companies• Indirect positive effects on the local economy – increase of spending /

economic activity