Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 214, 635-666 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01708-x

Regular Article

Big science and big administration

Confronting the governance, financial and legal challenges of FuturICT

¹ University of Oxford, UK
² University College London, UK
³ University College, Cork
⁴ University of Thessaloniki, Greece
⁵ ISTC-CNR, Rome
⁶ Bar-Ilan University, Israel
⁷ IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat Illes Balears, 07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
⁸ ICT4Peace, Switzerland

^a e-mail: janet.smart@sbs.ox.ac.uk

Revised: 9 October 2012
Published online: 5 December 2012

Abstract

This paper considers the issues around managing large scientific projects, and draws conclusions for the governance and management of FuturICT, based on previous experience of Big Science projects, such as CERN and ATLAS. We also consider the legal and ethical issues of the FuturICT project as the funding instrument moves from the Seventh Framework Programme to Horizon 2020.