ECFA European Committee for Future Accelerators Restricted ECFA

ECFA (European Committee for Future Accelerators) Restricted ECFA ( RECFA): Members: ~20 (one/member state +Israel+CERN DG+DESY DG + Gran Sasso Director. . ) Plenary ECFA (PECFA): few members/ country Meetings : 5/year Three @ member states + 2 @ CERN (every 2 nd year one @ DESY) where PECFA meets as well Budget: 0 (each member pays his/her traveling)

Asked funding agencies several times (Last was few months ago) : No answer I have been paying through my research budget + my pocket ~3 trips /year - absent in ½ meetings ACTIVITIES: Member states : Visited by ECFA every ~ 6 -7 years. 1. A full day open presentation by the community (experiments, theory overview, industry connection, computing, student’s point of view). 2. The presentation is usually opened by a relevant goverment high-ranking official. 3. The open presentation is followed by a closed meeting where the country’s situation is discussed for a couple of hours, followed by a letter written by the ECFA chairperson to the relevant Minister. 4 New: there is a mid-term report for every country in the Plenary meeting.

· RECFA agenda: 1. Chairperson’s report (CERN Council, ICFA etc) 2. CERN + DESY status 3. ESGARD/CARE status 4. LINEAR COLLIDER: working group on experiments+detectors for ILC 5. HEPCCC relations 6. Neutrino factories : working group on them 7. Outreach (EPOG) 8. (Future of HEP in Europe)