DONES Consolidation Phase 1

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DONES-ConP1 is a project which answers to the call of support action for consolidating the IFMIF-DONES ESFRI facility. It will be linked to the brandnew DONES Programme serving as a transition for policy makers until funds are available, consolidate and expand the users community. The project will deal not only with the Construction Phase of the facility, but also with the operation and exploitation phase of the project. Although the Andalucia and the Spanish Government are ready to finance the investment to the extent of 50%, Croatia a 5%, and EURATOM through F4E are also ready to invest another 20%, negotiations with different partners are ongoing in order to secure and equilibrate the full construction budget and to assure the operation costs. This Consolidation support action is the ideal framework to ensure these contributions. The project will work on critical financial, legal and organisational issues related to the international character of the IFMIF-DONES facility during its construction and operation phases. The experience of the partners supplying in-kind procurements to other European and International facilities is a clear asset to benefit and developing update models for all the documentation and planning related with in-kind of commercial procurements at IFMIF-DONES. One of the main objectives of the project is to consolidate the scientific users community of both fusion and non-fusion experiments. The project shall consolidate the recently created community, developing cutting edge proposals in fields of nuclear physics, medicine or industry. The DONES Experimental Programme is one of the key objectives of the project. Finally, the project will update all the DONES Programme documentation in order to ensure they are ready for the start of the construction, and also the installation and commissioning phases. This will include an update of the documentation related to licensing of the proposal of experiments, and the transport to support facilities.