Dear Colleagues,
 
Apologies that for some reason a number of people are finding that the embedded links in the below seem to not work properly. The key one to check is https://indico.cern.ch/event/957057/page/27294-implementation-of-the-ecfa-detector-rd-roadmap so please use this one. Hopefully if you cut and paste any of these into a browser they should still be OK anyway. 
 
With best wishes,
Karl, Phil and Susanne



Dear Colleagues,
 
We are writing to you as previous participants in the 2021 ECFA Detector R&D Roadmap symposia which provided vital community input towards the documents submitted to CERN Council at the end of that year. As many of you will know, the resulting Roadmap documents were extremely well received and ECFA was therefore invited to work on proposals to implement the key recommendations. The presentation by the Director General at the Directorate Meeting (https://indico.cern.ch/event/1205151/) on 17/10/22 reports that the implementation plan worked out by the ECFA Roadmap Panel has now been approved by Council. In the implementation plan (see links at https://indico.cern.ch/event/957057/page/27294-implementation-of-the-ecfa-detector-rd-roadmap) it is proposed that new Detector R&D Collaborations (DRD Collaborations) be formed in each of the Task Force detector areas of the original Roadmap Process, for the reasons outlined in the latter document.
 
The formation of the new DRD Collaborations is being assisted by the original ECFA Task Forces (overseen by the ECFA Roadmap Panel) but has to be driven by relevant communities themselves who ultimately need to own the process. It is planned that the ECFA Task Forces, together with the managements from existing international R&D activities in the respective areas, call for community meetings soon to initiate work towards the corresponding proposals to form these DRD collaborations. We therefore need you to sign up to notify us of your interest using the registration slots for the Task Force links at https://indico.cern.ch/event/957057/page/27294-implementation-of-the-ecfa-detector-rd-roadmap so the organisers can be sure to contact as many of the relevant people as possible when they start bringing the communities together to help form these new DRDs. This is particularly true for those areas where no pre-existing international R&D collaborations exist which can already help identify a large number of the key players whose institutes are expected to form the core of these new collaborations.
 
Please note that through the registration process, we will construct topic-specific mailing lists to avoid using this full list in future except when materials are expected to be of general interest. As ever, you should feel free to encourage colleagues not on this mailing list to join (please also circulate the links above to anyone you believe could be interested) or to remove yourself if you do not want to receive further notifications in this context.
 
With many thanks,
 
Karl, Phil and Susanne
 
(On behalf of the ECFA Detector R&D Roadmap Panel)