CARE, an ambitious and coordinated project of accelerator research and developments oriented towards High Energy Physics
projects, has been launched in January 2004 by the main European laboratories and the European Commission with the 6th
Framework Programme. This project aims at improving existing infrastructures dedicated to future projects such as linear
colliders, upgrades of hadron colliders and high intensity proton drivers An important part of this programme is devoted to
advancing the performance of the superconducting technology, both in the fields of RF cavities for electron and proton
acceleration and of high field magnets, as well as to developing high intensity electron and proton injectors. We describe the
plans of the four main Joint Research Activities and report on the results and progress obtained so far. The CARE project also
includes three adjacent Networking Activities whose main goal is to organize a forum of discussions and to provide the
strategic plans in the fields of the Linear Collider, intense Neutrino Beams, and future Hadron Colliders. |
