International collaboration is very much welcomed for these two projects. This project is the successor of the KAON project, proposed in Canada. This machine would combine both a high beam energy and a high beam intensity. Japan is also completing a beauty factory at KEK in 1998 and has positioned itself very strongly for progress in Nuclear Physics. These centers have each year an extensive program of workshops with a large international participation from all over the world.
Specific programs are devoted to interdisciplinary topics.
With the increased scale of major facilities, a number of more formal cooperative agreements have been pursued to open up scientific opportunities for the international community at unique facilities. In turn, these facilities have been able to extend their scientific reach through instrumentation development by the international partners. The Committee consists of 21 members from 14 European member states including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain. Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. This meeting pointed to the steps needed now for the nuclear physics community to respond to the development of Nuclear Physics worldwide.