Coordinating Europe’s big science facilities
APR 06, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024221
Nature News : Europe’s busiest big science facilities, such as powerful neutron sources and synchrotrons, are centers of international collaboration—but there is precious little coordination to ensure that they are adequately funded, or that underused or moribund facilities are wound down.To tackle this problem, says Carlo Rizzuto, chair of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, charged with drawing up Europe’s priority list of such facilities, he is calling for a new independent body to help manage their cash flow across the continent.
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