Aspera ND in Spain

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Aspera ND in Spain

New system of research, as in France as in other
countries
Competition at national level and between
disciplines
A personal thought general tendency towards
liberalisation of the research
open calls, vs programs
adhoc evaluation committees versus proximity
evaluation and followup
Exagerated importance of automatic indicators
Tendency to absorb direction of research in
ministries
Is it favorable for the science we are promoting
?
An open call vs program scale that goes from
Italy through Germany and France, to Netherlands
, UK? Wher ein this scale is the new spanish
ssystem?
Infrastructure policy
National roadmap
Links to ESFRI, ways to interact with ministry ?
Bilateral links for national maps?
Science
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• CSIC (large interdisciplinary, research
  performing organisation)
• 12 kpersons, 116 units, Budget 640 ME, of which
  198 ME external fresh money
• National Program for Particle physics
• An impressive growth in the past few years
• Good balanced Astroparticle program and growing
• importance of 2 infrastructures Camfranc,
  MAGIC
• The importance of the Institute for Particle and
  Astroparticle Physics (can we help?),
• same ideas in CNRS towards a holding of
  Institutes.
• CIEMAT
• Importance of very large labs as a heat baths of
  technology, we should keep that
• Think again the energy, climate/risks monitoring
  spinoffs of astroparticle (AUGER,
  ANTARES/NEMO/NESTOR, underground labs)
• Camfranc
• Interdisciplinary
• How do we make european infrastructures?
• Linking of the labs, not for their present
  program, yes for the future extentions, but the
  future starts in 3-4 years
• Outreach we shoould make a workshop in the
  context of the roadmap, exemple of DUSEL