At its recent meeting in Madrid, NuPECC took the decision to launch the process of creating a new Long Range Plan (LRP) for Nuclear Physics in Europe, identifying opportunities and priorities for nuclear science in Europe, with the aim of publishing the document in 2024. The previous Long Range Plan can be found at http://nupecc.org/pub/lrp17/lrp2017.pdf and an assessment of its implementation at http://nupecc.org/2017_LRP_Assessment_of_Implementation_final.pdf.
With the intention of strengthening the bottom-up approach that has always played an important role in the LRPs, in the coming few days NuPECC will open a call for input describing the view of collaborations, experiments, or communities on the key topics for the next 10 years to be included in the upcoming LRP.
The Committee encourages active participation of the whole community in the elaboration of the strategic plan for the future of European nuclear physics.

(M.Lewitowicz)

On Friday, the 13th of May  2022, the Nobel Prize winner Ben Mottelson passed away.

Ben Mottelson was the laureate of the Nobel Prize in nuclear physics in 1975 (together with Aage Bohr and James Rainwater) “for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection”.
He was the co-author of the nuclear physics monographs (called sometime nuclear physics „bible”) – volume 1 “Nuclear Structure” and volume 2 “Nuclear Deformations”.

Ben Mottelson collaborated with many Polish physicists. He was also awarded with the Polish “Marian Smoluchowski Medal” in 1980.

The last issue of the Warsaw University magazine has been published.
It contains an article on Dr. Hasan Maridi with the title: “Where does the happiness come from?”
The magazine is available here and the article starts on pg. 30.