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

from Monday 8 December 2025 (14:00) to Tuesday 9 December 2025 (13:20)
CERN (60/6-015)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Dec 2025
9 Dec 2025
AM
08:30
8:30 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - - (until 10:35)
08:30 Report on ESPP status (K. Jacobs - Oral)  
09:30 Preliminary objectives and deliverables for the FCC pre-TDR phase (M. Benedikt - Oral)  
10:00 Final budget of the Organization for the seventy-second financial year 2026 (R. Bello)  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:35
10:35 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - - (until 11:35)
11:35
11:35 - - - RESTRICTED SESSION - - - (until 13:05)
11:35 Close-out report on Closed Session (Oral)  
11:45 Election of a nominee for the position of Vice-Chair of the SPC (Oral)  
12:00 Future composition of the Scientific Policy Committee  
12:25 Appointment of three members of the SPC Membership Selection Committee  
12:50 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
14:00
14:00 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - - (until 18:10)
14:00 Adoption of the Agenda  
14:05 Approval of the draft minutes of  
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  
15:20 Report by the Director-General (Oral)  
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (M. Lamont - Oral)  
16:40 Status report on LHC experiments and computing (J. Mnich - Oral)  
17:10 Proposal to host the Open Research Europe initiative at CERN as a five-year pilot project (J. Mnich)  
17:30 CERN’s main objectives for 2021-2025: achievement report (Directorate)  
18:05 Minor modification to the strategy and framework applicable to knowledge transfer by CERN for the benefit of medical applications (C. Hartley)  
18:10
18:10 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - - (until 19:15)
19:30 --- Dinner (Glassbox - Restaurant No. 1) ---
13:05
13:05 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - - (until 13:20)
13:05 Close-out report on Closed and Restricted Sessions  
13:15 Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2027  
13:17 Other business