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

Name: Scientific Policy Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Forty-Ninth Meeting
Start: 2025-12-08T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-09T13:20:00+01:00
Location: CERN

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

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

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

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Monday 8 December
- Mon 8 Dec
- Tue 9 Dec
- 14:00 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  
  Zoom link - Normal session
  - 1
    Adoption of the Agenda
    
    CERN/SPC/1269
    
    English
  - 2
    Approval of the draft minutes of
    
    a) the three-hundred-and-forty-seventh meeting
    
    CERN/SPC/1270/RA/Draft
    
    English
    
    b) the three-hundred-and-forty-eighth meeting
    
    CERN/SPC/1271/RA/Draft
    
    English
  - 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)
    
    CERN/SPC/1266/RA/Rev. CERN/3931/RA/Rev.
    
    English
    
    French
    
    Slides
  - 11
    CERN’s main objectives for 2021-2025: achievement report (Directorate)
    
    CERN/SPC/1272/RA CERN/FC/6965/RA CERN/3960/RA
    
    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)
    
    CERN/SPC/1091/Rev.2 CERN/FC/6125/Rev.2 CERN/3311/Rev.2
    
    English
    
    French
- 18:10 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
  
  Zoom link - Closed session
- 19:30
  
  Dinner (Glassbox - Restaurant No. 1)
Tuesday 9 December
- Mon 8 Dec
- Tue 9 Dec
- 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)
    
    CERN/SPC/1275 CERN/FC/6963 CERN/3954
    
    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
    
    CERN/SPC/1274/RA CERN/3970/C
    
    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
    
    CERN/SPC/1276/RA CERN/FC/6984/RA CERN/3955/RA
    
    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
    
    CERN/3959/Draft
    
    English
  - 23
    
    Other business