Start of the SEEIIST Design Phase
Budva, Montenegro
The South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST, http://seeiist.eu)
Start of the SEEIIST Design Phase
The purpose of this event is to inform the public about the advancements of the SEEIIST project at a decisive moment when it passes from the phase of conception to the phase of design. At a Forum at the ICTP in Trieste in January 2018 two possibilities for a large international facility had been presented. Soon after, the newly formed Intergovernmental Steering Committee of SEEIIST with representatives of the 10 participating parties has chosen as core of the project a state-of-the-art ‘Facility for Tumour Therapy and Biomedical Research with Protons and Heavier Ions’. The Facility will have the double task, with 50% of the beam time each, to treat patients and to perform research with a wide spectrum of different ions beyond the presently used protons and carbon ions, making the SEEIIST project unique in the world. The main reasons for this choice are the facts that no particle therapy center exists in the SEE Region despite an even perpetually growing number of tumours, and that no dedicated research facility for biomedical research exists in all Europe. An independent important objective of the project is to foster regional cooperation in the fields of science, technology and industry in the spirit of the CERN model ‘Science for Peace’.
The next steps are to prepare a definite technical design for the facility benefitting from the most recent developments, to propose a structure for the organisation including a business plan and to define the conditions for a site selection. To carry out these tasks several working groups are being set up at the international research centers CERN, Geneva and GSI-FAIR, Darmstadt. This follows the previous tradition of these centers in making available their infrastructure for the creation of new European research organisations (at CERN e.g. for EMBO and ESO), and offering their respective competence in accelerator technology for medical applications or even in treating patients with ions on their own grounds (at GSI).
The SEEIIST project should be integrated into the general European plans for the development of the region and regional cooperation, the more so that most of the candidate members are candidates for future EU membership. In a first decisive step, the project greatly benefitted from the continuous support of Mr. Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation. He will give the opening talk of this event in the form of video recording. The activities of the preparatory group will be financed through the support of the EU-Directorate General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD).
Capacity building is another objective of SEEIIST and will be supported by the IAEA. This will not only help to train the future staff and users of the facility, but will contribute to the slowing down if not reversal of the brain drain. The project would thus offer immediate benefits for the region in very general terms.
Aivo Orav
Albana Topi
Alberto Iannalfi
Aleksandar Belic
Aleksandar Bogojevic
Aleksandar CELEBIC
Aleksandar Dimovski
Alessandro Lombardo
Alfred Zens
Alison Kemp
Aljosa Stankovic
Almin Hasandić
Almin Mušić
Almir Badnjevic
Ana Langović Milićević
Anette Angermann
Angelina Todorova
Anna Jankovic
Asim Musa
Bashkim Ziberi
BERNHARD FABIANEK
Branka Zizic
chaimaa elmoujaddidi
Christoph Schaefer
Danica Ramljak
Daniela Gasparikova
David Smith
Dejan Milosevic
DIna Lasic
Dusanka Tesanovic
Dušan Mileusnić
Elena Benedetto
Elisabetta Dovier
Elizabeta Naumovska
Elvan Hasanovikj
Fabio Mazzolini
Ferdinand Nagy
Fernando Quevedo
Frederick BORDRY
Galina Kirova-Nedyalkova
Gazmend Nafezi
Genoveva Zlateva
Giacomo Cuttone
Goran Djordjević
Gordana Lastovicka-Medin
Gordana Ristic Basovic
Gregor Presker
Hans Joachim Specht
Herwig Schopper
Horst Wenninger
Igor Stojkovski
Inva Kociaj
Ioan Ursu
Irena Aligrudic
Isabel Rubiales Fuentes
Isabelle Stoffel
Ivana Petricevic
Jacques BALOSSO
Janko Burgar
Jelena Burzan
Jevto Erakovic
Jochen Schieck
Jonas Abs
Joseph David Lee
Judith Litjens
Julijana Balevska
Jure Knez
Karel Urban
Karlheinz Langanke
Kostadin Kostadinov
Kostadin Petkov
Ksenija Dasic
Lambe Barandovski
Leandar Litov
Leandro Pecchia
Ledio Bregu
Lidija Arsova
Ljiljana Bojic
Ljubisa Stankovic
Luca Zelioli
mag. Tea Glažar
Manjit Dosanjh
Marco Durante
Mariusz Sapinski
Mark Pleško
Maurizio Vretenar
Meglena Ivanova Plugtschieva-Alexandrova
Mihajlo Trpkoski
MILAN KUJUNDŽIĆ
Milos Trifkovic
Mimoza Ristova
Mladen Šarčević
Nataliya Rohr-Udilova
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Niccolo Iorno
Nicholas Sammut
Nikola Milasevic
Nina Kodelja
Panagiota Foka
Peter Urschütz
Philippe Geffroy
Pradeep Ghosh
Ridi Kurtezi
Robert Weber
Roberto Antonione
Roman Hlobeň
Ronald de Bruin
Roy Aleksan
Rüdiger Voss
Salmin Salkovic
Sandro Rossi
Sanja Damjanovic
Saša Lazović
Signe Ratso
Siska Martina Cahyati
Skender Kabashi
Slavica Milacic
Snežana Pajović
Sonja Petkovska
Sotirios Athanassiou
Stefan Estermann
Suvad Džafic
Tatjana Ignjić
Tobias Engert
Ugo Amaldi
Vasil Tole
Veselko Grubišić
Vesna Gershan
Vladimir Kovcin
Vladimir Popović
Vladimir Sucha
Vladimir Todorovic
Xavier Reymond
Ylber Hysa
Zlata Štiblar Kisić
Zoltán Takácsi-Nagy
Zoran Bingulac