Scientific Policy Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Forty-Ninth Meeting

8 Dec 2025, 14:00 → 9 Dec 2025, 13:20 Europe/Zurich

60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F) (CERN)

Monday, 8 December at 14:00

14:00 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -

Zoom link - Normal session

1 Adoption of the Agenda

English

2 Approval of the draft minutes of

3 Report by the SPC Chair (Oral)

SPC Chair Report December 2025

4 Briefing by the President of the Council (Oral)

Slides

5 Matters arising from the previous meetings

6 Scientific Committee Reports: INTC-SPSC-LHCC-CMAC-FCC-SAC

CMAC Slides

INTC Slides

LHCC Slides

SPSC Report

7 Report by the Director-General (Oral)

Slides

15:50 Coffee break

8 Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (M. Lamont - Oral)

Slides

9 Status report on LHC experiments and computing (J. Mnich - Oral)

Slides

10 Proposal to host the Open Research Europe initiative at CERN as a five-year pilot project (J. Mnich)

English

French

Slides

11 CERN’s main objectives for 2021-2025: achievement report (Directorate)

English

French

Slides

12 Minor modification to the strategy and framework applicable to knowledge transfer by CERN for the benefit of medical applications (C. Hartley)

English

French

18:10 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -

Zoom link - Closed session

19:30 Dinner (Glassbox - Restaurant No. 1)

Tuesday, 9 December at 08:30

8:30 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -

13 Report on ESPP status (K. Jacobs - Oral)

Slides

14 Preliminary objectives and deliverables for the FCC pre-TDR phase (M. Benedikt - Oral)

Slides

15 Final budget of the Organization for the seventy-second financial year 2026 (R. Bello)

English

French

Slides

10:20 Coffee break

10:35 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -

11:35 - - - RESTRICTED SESSION - - -

Attendance: Chair and Vice-Chair, Members, President of Council, Chair of FC, Director-General, Director-General Designate, Legal Counsel, CERN Services

16 Close-out report on Closed Session (Oral)

17 Election of a nominee for the position of Vice-Chair of the SPC (Oral)

18 Future composition of the Scientific Policy Committee

English

French

Revised version

Version révisée

19 Appointment of three members of the SPC Membership Selection Committee

20 Status report on the implementation of the recommendations made by the Council Working Group on the Rights and Obligations of the CERN Council Office-Holders

English

French

13:05 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -

21 Close-out report on Closed and Restricted Sessions

22 Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2027

English

23 Other business