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Preparatory Phase

In March 2008 the Preparatory Phase of KM3NeT infrastructure started, funded by the EU FP7 framework. The primary objective of the KM3NeT Preparatory Phase is to pave the path to political and scientific convergence on the legal, governance, financial engineering and siting aspects of the infrastructure and to prepare rapid and efficient construction once approved. As has become apparent in the KM3NeT Design Study, reconciliation of national and regional political and financial priorities with scientific and technological considerations will be a major issue.

In 2010, the KM3NeT consortium defined the technology of the research infrastructure following the Technical Design Report and concluding validation tests conducted after.

The construction phase of the KM3NeT infrastructure is foreseen to start after the end of the Preparatory Phase in 2012 with a period of tendering components.

Work packages

The work foreseen in the preparatory phase study has been organised in work packages. Each work package has its own coordinator and executive committee, responsible for the progress of the work in the package.