{"id":332,"date":"2015-07-07T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fp7-matisse.eu\/?page_id=332"},"modified":"2015-07-07T15:35:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T14:35:40","slug":"wp1-p1-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fp7-matisse.eu\/wp1-p1-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"WP1 – P1 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

MatISSE WP 1 \u2013 Coordination and Support for an Integrated Research Programme on Nuclear Materials<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Summary of periodic report 1.11.2013 \u2013 30.04.2015<\/em><\/p>\n

The aim of the work package is to support the JPNM in its strategic approach to an Integrated Research Programme (IRP). Therefore networking and integrating activities like a vision paper and periodic road-maps, management of calls and built up contacts with public authorities have to be strengthen. Set up and maintenance of a web portal and a good knowledge dissemination together with a strategic planning for T&E are further important issues.<\/p>\n

In task 1.1. \u2018Strategy to strengthen JPNM as IRP\u2019<\/span> a first step was to discuss possible legal structures for the JPNM. Different options (Integration in EERA; Integration in an association other than EERA; Consortium; Non-profit organisation; European Economic Interesting Grouping\/EEIG) were scored via weighing factors and prepared for a SWOT analysis. Finally, in the context that EERA transformed in between in a legal entity (8.4.2014), the analysis was performed only with the two structure options \u2018integration in EERA\u2019 and \u2018non-profit organization\/AISBL\u2019. On the basis of the outcome of the whole procedure the Steering Committee (SC) of JPNM decided for staying under the legal entity of EERA.<\/p>\n

Also in task 1.1. a workshop \u2018Workshop with Member States\u2019 Stakeholders under the auspices of the EURATOM FP 7 Project MatISSE and JPNM\u2019 <\/em>was carried out at the 10th<\/sup> of September 2014. Representatives from the Member States (MS), the European Commission (EC) and the Management Board (MB) and SC of the JPNM took part. In presentations the research activities and the respective subsidies of the EC, the MS and the JPNM were shown. In a concluding round table discussion different possibilities of future research funding were discussed intensively.<\/p>\n

Task 1.2 \u2018R&D Roadmap, SRA and Research Infrastructure\u2019<\/span> was started with the contribution of JPNM to the \u2018SET-Plan Energy Integrated Roadmap\u2019 which was finalized in spring 2014.<\/p>\n

For the detailed JPNM Materials Roadmap and Vision Paper three grand challenges were defined:<\/p>\n

1.) Grand Challenge: Elaboration of design rules, assessment and test procedures suitable for the expected operating conditions and the materials envisaged. This involves deployment of infrastructures for relevant ageing phenomena and for testing of materials, data and knowledge, which is currently limited.<\/p>\n

2.) Grand Challenge: Development of physical models coupled to advanced microstructural characterization to achieve high-level understanding predictive capability: an asset, given the scarcity of experimental data and the difficulty and cost of obtaining them.<\/p>\n

3.) Grand Challenge: Development of new materials with superior thermo-mechanical properties and radiation-resistance or, in general, nuclear-relevance, in partnership with industry for a faster industrial upscaling.<\/p>\n

The Vision Paper with respect to:<\/p>\n