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

Dec 8, 2025, 2:00 PM → Dec 9, 2025, 1:20 PM Europe/Zurich

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

Mon, December 8

2:00 PM → 6:10 PM 14:00 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -

Zoom link - Normal session

2:00 PM Adoption of the Agenda

English

2:05 PM Approval of the draft minutes of

2:10 PM Report by the SPC Chair (Oral)

SPC Chair Report December 2025

2:20 PM Briefing by the President of the Council (Oral)

Slides

2:25 PM Matters arising from the previous meetings

2:30 PM Scientific Committee Reports: INTC-SPSC-LHCC-CMAC-FCC-SAC

CMAC Slides

INTC Slides

LHCC Slides

SPSC Report

3:20 PM Report by the Director-General (Oral)

Slides

3:50 PM Coffee break

4:10 PM Status of the accelerator complex and upgrades (M. Lamont - Oral)

Slides

4:40 PM Status report on LHC experiments and computing (J. Mnich - Oral)

Slides

5:10 PM Proposal to host the Open Research Europe initiative at CERN as a five-year pilot project (J. Mnich)

English

French

Slides

5:30 PM CERN’s main objectives for 2021-2025: achievement report (Directorate)

English

French

Slides

6:05 PM Minor modification to the strategy and framework applicable to knowledge transfer by CERN for the benefit of medical applications (C. Hartley)

English

French

6:10 PM → 7:15 PM 18:10 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -

Zoom link - Closed session

7:30 PM → 9:30 PM Dinner (Glassbox - Restaurant No. 1)

Tue, December 9

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

8:30 AM Report on ESPP status (K. Jacobs - Oral)

Slides

9:30 AM Preliminary objectives and deliverables for the FCC pre-TDR phase (M. Benedikt - Oral)

Slides

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

English

French

Slides

10:20 AM Coffee break

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

11:35 AM → 1:05 PM 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 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

English

French

Revised version

Version révisée

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

English

French

1:05 PM → 1:20 PM 13:05 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -

1:05 PM Close-out report on Closed and Restricted Sessions

1:15 PM Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2027

English

1:17 PM Other business