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BOSE INSTITUTE
INDO-FAIR CO-ORDINATION CENTRE
(BI-IFCC)
FOR MANAGEMENT OF THE FAIR PROGRAMME
India signed the convention as a member country to participate in the
construction of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR)
at Darmstadt, Germany, in 2010. The FAIR project is managed by the
FAIR Company, FAIR GmbH, Germany . Bose Institute, Kolkata, founded by
Acharya Jagadis Chandra Bose, an autonomous R&D Institute under
the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, has been
designated as the Indian shareholder in the FAIR Company and the nodal
Indian institute for management of FAIR programme from India.
This National Programme is supported through extra-mural fund at Bose
Institute, Kolkata, by both Department of Science & Technology, Government
of India, and Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, and is
implemented jointly by Bose Institute, Kolkata, and Variable Energy
Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata. A large number of other R&D institutions and
Universities will also be participating in this co-ordinated National
Programme.
In consideration of the magnitude, multi-institutional character,
multi-agency funding, international application and magnitude of task
involved, a Indo-FAIR Co-ordination Centre (IFCC) has been established by
Bose Institute, Kolkata, which has been authorized as the implementing body
of the Indo-FAIR Programme.
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