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Cooperation

EUROfusion and ITER plan closer ties in R&D, training

20 Oct 2025

The high-level cooperation agreement will strengthen academic, scientific, and technical collaboration in support of ITER.

The ITER stand at the 30th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference serves as the backdrop to the signing of a collaboration agreement between the ITER Organization and EUROfusion, the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy. ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi and EUROfusion Programme Manager Gianfranco Federici agree to a more targeted and coordinated European contribution to ITER over the next two years.

Building off of long-established ties, EUROfusion and ITER are agreeing to collaborate even more closely over the next two years with an agreement that will fast-track participation in some of ITER's most pressing design and engineering challenges.

Two areas that are initially targeted through Implementing Agreements—support for the design of ITER's first wall and the development of tungsten coating techniques—are related to the new ITER baseline and the decision to replace beryllium with tungsten as blanket first wall armour material. A third, joint initiatives in training and education, aims to smooth the transition at ITER from construction to operation. The agreement also opens the door to joint activities in research, engineering, data exchange, and knowledge management.

“The ITER project and EUROfusion have a long history of working together," commented ITER Director-General Barabaschi. "The agreement today is important because it formalizes that cooperation. I am very grateful that EUROfusion is ready to deploy resources to ITER. As I said at the conference today, ITER is a facility for the community and EUROfusion represents the fusion community in Europe.”

The EUROfusion program has long been focused on addressing the fundamental physics and technological gaps identified by ITER. This new cooperation agreement builds on that foundation to provide a complementary, fast-track framework to deliver agile, targeted solutions.

Read the EUROfusion press release here.

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