Vlastimil Rika Deputy Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic

ELI-Beamlines Scientific Challenges Workshop, Prague, 26 April 2010

ELI will be a pan-European research infrastructure, its mission is defined by the ESFRI Roadmap ELI-Beamlines will be one of the designed pillars of ELI European Research Infrastructure Consortium ELI-ERIC will be established; Czech Republic will be one of its founding members Project of ELI-Beamlines project has official support of the Czech Government (Resolution No 1514 from November 24, 2008) ELI-Beamlines will be funded by 265 million Euro within the Czech Republics Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovations ELI-Beamlines is supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences and by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Synergy expected with the HiPER project

MoU signed by CZ, HU and RO in Prague, April 16, 2010

 ELI-Preparatory Phase Steering Committee decision October 1, 2009 Maximizing both European and regional impact

Attosecond pillar

Attosecond XUV/X-ray physics

Applications in material sciences and biology

Beamlines pillar

High-brightness sources of X-rays & particles

Molecular & biomedical sciences, particle acceleration, physics of dense plasmas

Photonuclear pillar

Laser-induced nuclear physics

Photonuclear science and applications

Site to be determined after 2012

High-intensity development

Exawatt-class laser technology

High-intensity laser technologies for frontier physical research

2009 October 1

ELI-PP Steering Committee gives the Czech Rep mandate to implement the Beamline facility

November 12 Submission of the national bid to build ELI-Beamlines to the Managing Authority (MEYS): OP R&D for I
2010 January 29 February Zoning permit for the ELI-Beamlines facility issued Project assessed by the national expert panel Industrial applications, national synergies, financial sustainability construction aspects Project assessed by the international expert panel Quality of the research Quality of management and of human resources strategy Result: project is strongly recommended for funding Final negotiations underway about the agreement on funding (265 million Euro) Submission of the funding request for ELI-Beamlines to EC

March 19

April-May June

December

Official approval of funding from EC expected

Consortium ELI-CZ: 14 major universities and research institutes

Charles University (50,000 students), Czech Technical University (20,000 students), Technical University of Liberec (14,000 students), Palack University of Olomouc (16,000 students), Institute of Chemical Technology Prague (4,000 students)

Research projects: ultrashort-pulse lasers, femtochemistry, femtobiology, plasma research, electron & ion acceleration, optical technologies