EUROfusion is a consortium of national fusion research institutes located in the European Union, the UK, Switzerland and Ukraine. It was established in 2014 to succeed the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) as the umbrella organisation of Europe's fusion research laboratories. The consortium is currently funded by the Euratom Horizon 2020 programme.
Organisation The EUROfusion consortium agreement has been signed by 30 research organisations and universities from 25 European Union countries plus Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Country Participating Laboratory Austria Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Belgium Ecole Royale Militaire-Koninklijke Militaire School, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Brussels BulgariaBulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia Croatia Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb Cyprus University of Cyprus, Nicosia Czech Republic Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Plasma Physics, Prague Denmark DTU, Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy, Lyngby Estonia University of Tartu, Institute of Physics Finland VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo France Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, CEA, Cadarache Germany Forschungszentrum Jülich, FZJ; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT; Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, IPP, Garching and Greifswald Greece National Center For Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS", Athens Hungary Hungarian Academy of Science, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest Ireland Dublin City University, Plasma Research Laboratory Italy Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile, ENEA (Italy), Frascati Latvia University of Latvia, Institute of Solid State Physics, Riga LithuaniaLithuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas The Netherlands Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER), Eindhoven Poland Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw Portugal Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, IPFN Romania Institutul de Fizica Atomica (IFA), Illfov Slovakia Comenius University, Department of Experimental Physics, Bratislava Slovenia JSI Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana Spain Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, (CIEMAT), Madrid Sweden Vetenskapsrådet, Stockholm Switzerland Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), LausanneUkraine Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT), Kharkiv United Kingdom Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), Host to JET
The EUROfusion's Programme Management Unit offices located in Garching, near Munich (Germany), are hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP). The IPP is also the seat for the co-ordinator of EUROfusion.
Activities EUROfusion funds fusion research activities in accordance with the Roadmap to the realisation of fusion energy. The Roadmap outlines the most efficient way to realise fusion electricity by 2050. Research carried out under the EUROfusion umbrella aims to prepare for ITER experiments and develop concepts for the fusion power demonstration plant DEMO. EUROfusion is in charge of the fusion-related research carried out at JET, the Joint European Torus, which is housed in the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK. Other fusion devices in Europe that devote some amount of time towards research under the EUROfusion framework include the following: Device Device type Institute/Location ASDEX Upgrade Tokamak IPP Garching, Germany TCV Tokamak Tokamak École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland WEST Tokamak CEA, France MAST Upgrade Spherical tokamak CCFE, United Kingdom Wendelstein 7-X stellarator Stellarator IPP at the Greifswald branch TJ-II stellarator Stellarator Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, CIEMAT, Spain Plasma-Wall Interaction in Linear Plasma Devices, PSI-2 Linear devices FZJ, Jülich, Germany PILOT-PSI Linear devices DIFFER, The Netherlands MAGNUM-PSI Linear devices DIFFER, The Netherlands
References
Further reading ITER Joint European Torus (JET) Fusion for Energy DEMO Euratom Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
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