This article was originally published in the EP Newsletter.

By Susanne Kuehn (CERN)

In two previous newsletter editions (1, 2) the process to develop a Roadmap for R&D on Detector Technologies was reported. As recommended in the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update (EPPSU) (3), ECFA has set up the Detector R&D Panel which has led this process. The Roadmap document of more than 200 pages and a synopsis document of eight pages for non-experts were produced by the panel together with a group of nine Task Forces of instrumentation experts. Input sessions, surveys, public symposia, input

By Rickard Stroem (DESY)

AIDAinnova selected four Blue Sky research projects for funding.

Significant technological advances within the field of particle detectors have often been made possible thanks to developments beyond the foreseen or intrinsic limits of existing technologies and often in synergy with other fields and industry. AIDAinnova’s dedicated work package on prospective and technology-driven detector R&D (WP13), coordinated by Professor Peter Krizan (University of Ljubljana and JSI), pays tribute to this fact in a call for so-called Blue Sky research projects as announced on