
With the passing of Paul Kienle, former Director of the Stefan Meyer Institute, we lost an eminent scientist and pioneer in subatomic physics. He left us on Tuesday, January 29, 2013, few days after finishing his last scientific...
The annual SPARC Collaboration meeting took place in Vienna from November 26 to 28.

The central objectives of the networking activity LEANNIS are the definition and coordination of studies on low-energy antikaon nucleon (nucleus) interaction in theory and experiment centered in Europe, but with strong impact on the worldwide strategy in the field. The exchange of new ideas, methods and results will stimulate the research field.
| Organization legal name | Short name | Activity leaders |
| Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | OeAW | J. Marton |
| Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare | INFN | C. Curceanu |
| Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | FZJ | Gillitzer |
| Technische Universität München | TUM | W.Weise / L. Fabbietti |
| Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | UBO | U.-G. Meissner |
| Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | UHEI | N. Herrmann |
| Andrzej Soltan Institute For Nuclear Studies | SINS | S. Wycech |
| Other involved institutions not receiving EC funds | Activity leaders |
| Technische Universität Wien (Austria) | M. Faber |
| University of Tokyo/RIKEN (Japan) | R. Hayano/M. Iwasaki |
| Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) | A. Gal/E. Friedman |
| Nuclear Physics Institute (INP) Rez (Prague) (Czech Republic) | J. Mares |