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Dear Colleagues, Please note the following announcement from Yannis Karyotakis, chair of the new R&D committee. Enjoy the holidays. Sincerely, Norman Graf ________________________________ From: Juan Fuster Verdu [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 3:29 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ECFA-LC] European committee to review the R&D effort for future projects Dear colleagues and friends, During the last ECFA plenary meeting it was decided to create a European committee to review the R&D effort for future projects. High Energy physics relies heavily on detector R&D developments. Every significant improvement on detection techniques opens a new area for fundamental physics. The R&D effort for new detectors is an important part of all the experimental laboratories’ and university teams’ activities. A considerable amount of manpower and financial resources are committed to this field across Europe and all around the world. R&D programs related to approved and well established scientific projects and collaborations, e.g. LHC, are evaluated and followed up by well-known and existing committees, run naturally by the host laboratories. This is not the case when an important large scale project is in its preliminary and preparatory phase, not yet approved and supported by a unique leading or host lab. As an example the European LC community has been heavily involved for many years in an ambitious R&D effort, although the construction of a linear collider is not yet decided, and many possible host sites are envisaged. This new European committee receives R&D proposals on authors’ request, makes recommendations after evaluation, and monitors their progress. It helps to create a coherence of the global R&D effort by encouraging synergies between different activities and advising the funding agencies if they wish. It is primarily concerned with large R&D projects, related to accelerator experiments, involving many laboratories and requiring significant resources. DESY will host this new committee which is planned to meet twice per year, chaired by Yannis Karyotakis director of the Laboratoire d’Annecy le Vieux de Physique des Particules. The kick-off meeting of the committee is scheduled for May 2nd and 3rd at DESY. We will try to organize a global overview of the R&D effort in Europe, during the first day. I count on you to advertise this new committee in your own country or your community. Merry Christmas and happy New Year Yannis [cid:[log in to unmask]]