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

from Monday 22 September 2025 (14:00) to Tuesday 23 September 2025 (13:20)
CERN (503/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
22 Sept 2025
23 Sept 2025
AM
08:30
8:30 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - - (until 11:30)
08:30 Reports on the Four Major LHC Experiments  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:25 Report on ESPP status (K. Jacobs - Oral)  
10:45 Proposed decision-making milestones for the Future Circular Collider and the alternative option (Director-General)  
11:10 CERN’s Fourth Environment Report (S. Kleiner)  
11:30
11:30 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - - (until 12:15)
PM
14:00
14:00 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - - (until 18:05)
14:00 Adoption of the Agenda  
14:05 Approval of the draft minutes of the three-hundred-and-forty-sixth meeting  
14:10 Report by the SPC Chair (Oral)  
14:20 Briefing by the President of the Council (Oral)  
14:25 Matters arising from the previous meetings  
14:30 Scientific Committee Reports: INTC-SPSC-LHCC-CMAC-FCC-SAC  
15:00 Report by the Director-General (Oral)  
15:55 --- Coffee break ---
16:15 Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (M. Lamont - Oral)  
16:45 Status report on non-LHC experiments and computing (J. Mnich - Oral)  
17:05 Proposal to host the Open Research Europe initiative at CERN as a five-year pilot project (J. Mnich)  
17:25 Report from the National Academies study EPP2024 (M. Spiropulu and M. Turner - Oral)  
18:05
18:05 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - - (until 19:20)
19:30 --- Dinner (Glassbox - Restaurant No. 1) ---
12:15
12:15 - - - RESTRICTED SESSION - - - (until 13:05)
12:15 Close-out report on Closed Session (Oral)  
12:25 CERN Management Team for the Years 2026-2030  
12:50 SPC Vice-Chair discussion  
12:55 SPC Membership Selection Committee – preliminary discussions  
13:05
13:05 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - - (until 13:20)
13:05 Close-out report on Closed and Restricted Sessions  
13:15 Other business