Founded 2014 Website euro-fusion.org | Headquarters Garching, Germany | |
EUROfusion is a consortium of national fusion research institutes located in the European Union and Switzerland. 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.
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Organisation
The EUROfusion consortium agreement has been signed by 30 research organisations and universities from 26 European Union countries plus Switzerland and Ukraine.
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: