EU Operational Programme support for the FAIR-CZ project enters its third phase

30. 04. 2024

The third phase of investment support for the FAIR-CZ project started on 1 January 2024 (the legal act for the project from the OP JAC - Infrastructures call was issued on 26 April 2024). The aim of the FAIR-CZ project is to fully involve the Czech Republic and the Czech scientific community in the construction of the international FAIR research infrastructure in Germany.

The project, entitled "Laboratory for Research with Antiprotons and Heavy Ions - Czech Republic Participation - OP III", is coordinated, as in the first two phases, by the Nuclear Physics Institute. Project partners include Charles University, the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Silesian University in Opava, and now Palacký University in Olomouc.

During the first two phases, the scientists and researchers, coordinated by the Nuclear Physics Institute, were mainly involved in the supply of detectors and their components. In the third phase, they will have the opportunity to contribute in kind to the accelerator infrastructure itself. In particular, they will provide vacuum elements for the ion transport lines.

The Laboratory for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR GmbH) is a newly built major European international research infrastructure, part of the ESFRI Roadmap (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures). FAIR, with its pan-European significance and role in nuclear and hadron physics, will be built in Darmstadt, Germany, following the German national laboratory GSI (Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research). Full operation of the facility is planned for 2028.

More about the project:
Title: Laboratory for Antiproton and Heavy Ion Research - Czech Republic Participation - OP III
Project registration number according to MS2021+: CZ.02.01.01/00/23_015/0008181

EU Operational Programme support for the FAIR-CZ project enters its third phase

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