New Initial Training Network on Antimatter Physics gets started
The Accelerators Validating Antimatter physics (AVA) project started officially on the 1st January 2017. Coordinated by Prof. Carsten P. Welsch from the University of Liverpool, AVA builds directly on the experience gained in oPAC and other projects. AVA involves currently 25 institutions, benefiting from almost 4 M€ of funding from the European Union. AVA will train no less than 15 early stage researchers over the next four years to carry out research into facility design and optimization, development of advanced beam diagnostics, and novel antimatter experiments. Each researcher employed within the project will also follow a highly innovative training program.
All project partners now gathered for the Kick-off Meeting organized on 11th - 13th January 2017 at the University of Liverpool. Representatives from all partner Institutions presented summaries of their anticipated contributions and details about their research projects.
The meeting was chaired by Prof. Welsch, who together with his dedicated EU TEAM introduced the partners to the specific rules and regulations of the Horizon 2020 framework, the detailed project time plan, milestones and deliverables, planned project events and the network wide communication and outreach plans. Dr. Ricardo Torres, also presented oPAC as an example of ‘best practice’ in the management of Initial Training Networks.
Research Fellows within AVA will have the opportunity to work at the forefront of science, participate in numerous training events and benefit from networking and various collaboration opportunities.
The AVA network is currently looking for candidates for its 15 vacant Fellowship positions at institutions across Europe.
The application deadline is 31st January 2017.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721559.
