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News from FAIR. I. Augustin FAIR Joint Core Team 25 September 2007 FAIR Monthly GSI. EU FP7 application for FAIR "preparatory phase" J. Eschke, FAIR JCT. Status FAIR preparatory phase EU project. proposal submitted on April 30, 2007. July 07: very good evaluation result.
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News from FAIR I. Augustin FAIR Joint Core Team 25 September 2007 FAIR Monthly GSI
EU FP7 application for FAIR "preparatory phase" J. Eschke, FAIR JCT • Status FAIR preparatory phase EU project I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
proposal submitted on April 30, 2007 July 07: very good evaluation result ____________________________________ EC funding: 4,9 M€ official launch contract negotiations – shall be concluded fast draft Annex-I has been submitted to EC – negotiation meeting in the next days I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
FAIR EU FP7 "preparatory phase" project will be funded by the European Commission The consortium of 27 participating institutions (including 12 ministries or funding agencies) of this EU project will receive 4,9M€ for the personnel of the FAIR JCT and later of the FAIR GmbH Duration of the EU contract: 24 months, start: 1.8.2007 The project covers seven work packages: all important coordination activities mandatory for the "implementation" of FAIR! I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
International Steering Committee External Committees: PACs, TACs, IKAB AFI STI FAIR project management team I. Augustin T. Beier H. Bokemeyer J. Eschke M. Hinkelmann S. Hofmann Z. Maika F. Weißbach Team Leader Hans H. Gutbrod Research N.N. Accelerator Dieter Krämer Integration N.N. Finance & Admin Alexander Kurz NUSTARCBM C. Domingo S. Belogurov H. Pentillä D. Cozma (1/2) W. Korten D. Dutta (1/2) C. Mihai (1/2) R. Karabowicz T. Sava (1/2) A.Kumar Dubey(1/2) PANDAW. Müller G. BocaM. Petris (1/2) L. Schmitt S. Tomassini APPA T. Stöhlker M. Czarnota A. Hirtl B. O'Rourke B. Azzara B. Galander (HESR) R. Hellmich W. Jacoby M. Lautenschläger A. Lehrach (HESR) D. Prasuhn (HESR) S. Richter P. Spiller M. Steck B. Becker-de Mos A. Lambert FAIR Joint Core Team 22 FTE GSI, 2 FTE FZJ 15 FTE international JCT members I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
Lab Director’s meeting on accelerators in FAIR Invitations have gone out via letters to ca. 50 directors of accelerator laboratories to come to Darmstadt on October 1st and 2nd for identifying possible collaboration in an accelerator or infrastructure work package! Replies to letters start to come in (status 18 September 2007): I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
Lab Director’s meeting on accelerators in FAIR • Preliminary Agenda: October 1st and 2nd, 2007 at GSI • October 1st, 2007 • 14:00 Start of Meeting • Presentation on the current status of the FAIR project • Principles of FAIR In-Kind Contributions • Work package structure • Status of Specifications • On-going R&D projects for FAIR • Expressions of interest for certain work packages (presentations by lab directors or their representatives) • October 2nd, 2007 • 9:00 Expressions of interest for certain work packages cont’d ((presentations by lab directors or their representatives) • 14:00 Round table discussion • 16:00 Concluding session • 17:00 End of Meeting I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
What's so important about that meeting? Up to now: Only preparatory phase of FAIR R&D Prototypes After Kick-Off: Official start of construction Money starts to flow Structures will evolve into FAIR GmbH The Kick-Off Meeting I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
Registration open since yesterday 275 registered (13:00 today) I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
Agenda Kick-Off (I) Wednesday 07.11.07 11:00 Start of registration 14:30 – 15:15 Coffee 15:00 – 15:45 Enter ESR (All seated by 15:45) 16:00 – 17:10 Kick-Off Event Welcome – H. Stöcker (5 Min) Welcome Addresses A. Schavan (BMBF) (10 Min) R. Koch (MinPres Hessen) (10 Min) 2 - 4 international speakers (total 20 Min) EU(?), FAIR countries(?) Signature of Communiqué (10 Min) Action Element (Press Photos) 17:10 – 17:30 Press-Conference (Press and VIP) close to ESR from 18:00 Buffet with Music I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
Agenda Kick-Off (II) Thursday, 08.11.07 09:00 – 12:30 Scientific Symposium 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (Foyer) 14:00 – 17:00 Scientific Symposium Current wishlist of speakers.... Wilczek, Schatz, Hayano, Henning, Gyulassy and more... I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
Getting to the Kick-Off • As soon as possible: mid of October the latestCommitments / Declarations etc. by the Partners • ISC 17.10.2007:Preparatory decisions by ISC, e.g.: • Start-version if the commitments / declarations do not cover the full project (through STI). • Some few managerial decisions in order to not loose time (e.g. preparation Pre-Council) I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
FAIR Roadmap (I) • Between 7.11., 'till end of the year 2007:(not necessarily prior to Nov. 7th, but desirable) • Nomination of Shareholders by all Contracting Parties • Formation of Consortia, where applicable (e.g. A, FIN) • Final Approval (slightly modified) of Convention, Articles of Association and other Annexes to Convention, Final Act (ISC, after one more look by AFI) • Decision on language • Further declarations / commitments • Formation of Pre-Council by those who have made Commitments / sent declarations. I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
FAIR Roadmap (II) • From November 'till January 2008 • Preparation of FAIR Company structure (Joint Core Team → Pre-Council) • Establishment of Search Committees for the FAIR Managing Directors (ISC or Pre-Council) • Staffing of some required positions as soon as possible for the Joint Core Team (JCT) I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
FAIR Roadmap (II) • April 2008 • Signature of Convention and Final Act by all Contracting Parties • Signature of Articles of Association by the Shareholders • Registration of the Company in the Trade Register • May 2008 • Constitutive meeting of the Council I. Augustin -FAIR Monthly Meeting @ GSI
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