Common use of Expected impacts Clause in Contracts

Expected impacts.  Contribution to the expected impacts As mentioned in the ESFRI roadmap 2010, “SPIRAL2 is a new European facility to be built at GANIL laboratory in Caen, France. The project aims at delivering stable and rare isotope beams with intensities not yet available with present machines. SPIRAL2 will reinforce the European leadership in the field of nuclear physics based on exotic nuclei.” The IDEAAL Project will explore all possibilities to secure long-term sustainability of GANIL infrastructure. In this way, it will contribute to the first expected impact, providing Europe a sustainable Research Infrastructure and helping to respond to challenges in science, through fundamental and interdisciplinary research with heavy-ion and neutron beams, in industry, via technology transfer and the use of ion beams for industrial applications, and in society, with applied research for medicine. With SPIRAL2, the leadership of the European Research Area in the global research environment will be strengthened through the uniqueness of the beams delivered by its accelerator, the state-of-the-art scientific equipment and high-quality staff. These specific features will attract numerous scientists and industries from outside Europe with an expected increase in the number of users by a factor of two. Industrial applications using radioactive and stable ion beams began at GANIL in 1988 with the first experiments on microporous membrane production by irradiating polymer films with heavy ions, and the first tests of electronic components to study their behaviour and resistance under irradiation. After several years of testing, companies dealing with the aerospace industry have also developed programs of component certification with the use of GANIL beams. A new sample irradiation device funded by GANIL and CNES (with the support of OSEO), including detection and control system, has been fully operational since 2010. As consequence, the period 2011-2015 has been very active in terms of contracts with industrial users, with an average of seven to nine experiments devoted to industrial applications performed every year, corresponding to an average of 300 beam hours. With its scientific and technological expertise, GANIL acts as a relay enhancing the transfer of its employee skills to industrial companies and their applications. In this context, GANIL applies, in conjunction with the CEA and the CNRS, a policy of industrial property, which protects its knowledge and allows transfers of applied knowledge. In the domain of ECR ion sources, GANIL inventions are protected through four patents. Three of these have been licensed to the PANTECHNIK Company, which produces and sells ion sources worldwide: NANOGAN, MONOGAN, MULTIGAN and SHEGAN are registered trademarks. Moreover, a new collaboration research agreement was signed between PANTECHNIK and GANIL at the end of 2014, for the development and testing of a prototype design for a new multi-charged ion source. First results are very promising and final tests are expected for the end of 2016, with a high probability of a new patent. Laboratory notebooks are used to ensure the respect of industrial property. Several accelerator technologies developed at GANIL are potentially transferable to industrial companies, and a systematic analysis of all the possibilities will start in 2016. In 2015, the patenting of a new type of aluminium flange has been launched, and the transfer of know-how and industrialisation of beam diagnostics has been started, as well.IDEAAL in itself aims to enhance the collaboration between GANIL and its current and future institutional funding partners, i.e. the European Commission, the Member States, associated countries and relevant stakeholders as local authorities, in order to closely associate them to the development of GANIL as a genuine international infrastructure. While developing partnerships with various international institutions though this Project, GANIL will further solidify itself as a leading representative of the European community using ion beams. In this way, the role of the European Union will be enhanced in all international organisations and multilateral forums in which GANIL will participate. In particular, we can mention the Group of Senior Officials (GSO) on Global Research Infrastructures established by the G8. GSO selected a list of infrastructures for all G8 countries. For France, only GANIL, with its new accelerator SPIRAL2, is on this list. The international development of GANIL will reinforce and update the European RI policy through a dissemination of the IDEAAL project results at the NuPECC and ESFRI committee meetings and conferences. As described above, IDEAAL will provide a global dimension to the GANIL infrastructure. This will occur through an enlargement of the partnerships to the partners from outside Europe like China, India and USA and also through a new organisation of the infrastructure in order to support every user in any type of activity that he or she will perform with GANIL, on its site or remotely, for a short visit or a long stay. GANIL will offer new opportunities to address societal challenges, especially through its new experimental hall dedicated to very intense light-ion and neutron beams. It will attract researchers from all over the world, as evidenced by the numerous letters of intent already addressed to GANIL from the international community. This attractiveness is also a great opportunity for researchers working at GANIL, especially on applied research as development of radioisotopes production methods, for cancer diagnostics and therapy, as described in Work Package 4. One of the IDEAAL goals is to develop a programme of scientific, technical, administrative personnel exchange and training with the GANIL associated partners, in order to take advantage of knowledge and know-how developed in the various research institutions. Particular attention will be given to collaborations with less developed regions of European Union (in Poland, Romania, and Italy). In this way, GANIL and its partners benefit from each other to best train their staff. Consequently, IDEAAL addresses perfectly the expected impact on capacity building and Research Infrastructure human capital development in several European regions.  Barriers/obstacles, and framework conditions Today the European situation in terms of regulations and standards for the use of ion-beam infrastructures allows achieving scientific, technical, innovation and socio-economic impacts of research activities with this type of infrastructures as described in the previous section without any foreseen obstacles.