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

from Monday, December 8, 2025 (2:00 PM) to Tuesday, December 9, 2025 (1:20 PM)
CERN (60/6-015)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 8, 2025
Dec 9, 2025
AM
8:30 AM
8:30 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - - (until 10:35 AM)
8:30 AM Report on ESPP status (K. Jacobs - Oral)  
9:30 AM Preliminary objectives and deliverables for the FCC pre-TDR phase (M. Benedikt - Oral)  
10:00 AM Final budget of the Organization for the seventy-second financial year 2026 (R. Bello)  
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:35 AM
10:35 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - - (until 11:35 AM)
11:35 AM
11:35 - - - RESTRICTED SESSION - - - (until 1:05 PM)
11:35 AM Close-out report on Closed Session (Oral)  
11:45 AM Election of a nominee for the position of Vice-Chair of the SPC (Oral)  
12:00 PM Future composition of the Scientific Policy Committee  
12:25 PM Appointment of three members of the SPC Membership Selection Committee  
12:50 PM 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  
PM
2:00 PM
14:00 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - - (until 6:10 PM)
2:00 PM Adoption of the Agenda  
2:05 PM Approval of the draft minutes of  
2:10 PM Report by the SPC Chair (Oral)  
2:20 PM Briefing by the President of the Council (Oral)  
2:25 PM Matters arising from the previous meetings  
2:30 PM Scientific Committee Reports: INTC-SPSC-LHCC-CMAC-FCC-SAC  
3:20 PM Report by the Director-General (Oral)  
3:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:10 PM Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (M. Lamont - Oral)  
4:40 PM Status report on LHC experiments and computing (J. Mnich - Oral)  
5:10 PM Proposal to host the Open Research Europe initiative at CERN as a five-year pilot project (J. Mnich)  
5:30 PM CERN’s main objectives for 2021-2025: achievement report (Directorate)  
6:05 PM Minor modification to the strategy and framework applicable to knowledge transfer by CERN for the benefit of medical applications (C. Hartley)  
6:10 PM
18:10 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - - (until 7:15 PM)
7:30 PM --- Dinner (Glassbox - Restaurant No. 1) ---
1:05 PM
13:05 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - - (until 1:20 PM)
1:05 PM Close-out report on Closed and Restricted Sessions  
1:15 PM Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2027  
1:17 PM Other business