Start of the SEEIIST Design Phase

Europe/Podgorica
Budva, Montenegro

Budva, Montenegro

Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT)), Frederick Bordry (CERN), Juergen Debus, Marco Durante (GSI), Herwig Schopper (CERN), Hans Specht (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)), Horst Wenninger (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
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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.

 

Participants
  • 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