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European Framework Research Projects have recently added a lot of meaning to the building process of the ERA – the
European Research Area. Inside this, the accelerator technology plays an essential role. Accelerator technology includes
large infrastructure and intelligent, modern instrumentation embracing mechatronics, electronics, photonics and ICT.
During the realization of the European research and infrastructure project FP6 CARE 2004-2008 (Coordinated
Accelerator Research in Europe), concerning the development of large accelerator infrastructure in Europe, it was
decided that a scientific editorial series of peer-reviewed monographs from this research area will be published in close
relation with the projects. It was a completely new and quite brave idea to combine a kind of a strictly research
publisher with a transient project, lasting only four or five years. Till then nobody did something like that. The idea
turned out to be a real success. The publications now known and valued in the accelerator world, as the (CERN-WUT)
Editorial Series on Accelerator Science and Technology, is successfully continued in already the third European project
EuCARD2 and has logistic guarantees, for the moment, till the 2017, when it will mature to its first decade. During the
realization of the European projects EuCARD (European Coordination for Accelerator R&D 2009-2013 and TIARA
(Test Infrastructure of Accelerator Research Area in Europe) there were published 18 volumes in this series. The
ambitious plans for the nearest years is to publish, hopefully, a few tens of new volumes. Accelerator science and
technology is one of a key enablers of the developments in the particle physic, photon physics and also applications in
medicine and industry. The paper presents a digest of the research results in the domain of accelerator science and
technology in Europe, published in the monographs of the European Framework Projects (FP) on accelerator
technology. The succession of CARE, EuCARD and EuCARD Projects is evidently creating a new quality in the
European Accelerator Research. It is consolidating the technical and research communities in a new way, completely
different than the traditional ones, for example via the periodic topical conferences.
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