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

14:00 → 18:10 14:00 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -

Zoom link - Normal session

14:00 Adoption of the Agenda

English

14:05 Approval of the draft minutes of

14:10 Report by the SPC Chair (Oral)

SPC Chair Report December 2025

14:20 Briefing by the President of the Council (Oral)

Slides

14:25 Matters arising from the previous meetings

14:30 Scientific Committee Reports: INTC-SPSC-LHCC-CMAC-FCC-SAC

CMAC Slides

INTC Slides

LHCC Slides

SPSC Report

15:20 Report by the Director-General (Oral)

Slides

15:50 Coffee break

16:10 Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (M. Lamont - Oral)

Slides

16:40 Status report on LHC experiments and computing (J. Mnich - Oral)

Slides

17:10 Proposal to host the Open Research Europe initiative at CERN as a five-year pilot project (J. Mnich)

English

French

Slides

17:30 CERN’s main objectives for 2021-2025: achievement report (Directorate)

English

French

Slides

18:05 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 → 19:15 18:10 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -

Zoom link - Closed session

19:30 → 21:30 Dinner (Glassbox - Restaurant No. 1)

Tuesday 9 December

08:30 → 10:35 8:30 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -

08:30 Report on ESPP status (K. Jacobs - Oral)

Slides

09:30 Preliminary objectives and deliverables for the FCC pre-TDR phase (M. Benedikt - Oral)

Slides

10:00 Final budget of the Organization for the seventy-second financial year 2026 (R. Bello)

English

French

Slides

10:20 Coffee break

10:35 → 11:35 10:35 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -

11:35 → 13:05 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

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

English

French

Revised version

Version révisée

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

English

French

13:05 → 13:20 13:05 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -

13:05 Close-out report on Closed and Restricted Sessions

13:15 Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2027

English

13:17 Other business