To solve the remaining dark matter mystery, members of the EDELWEISS and CRESST dark matter search experiments and additional experts have formed EURECA, a collaboration aiming to construct and operate a tonne-scale cryogenic detector in the extended Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane in France.

An interview with Michel Spiro, Director of the National Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics at CNRS (IN2P3) in Paris and new Chairman of the Steering Committee of ApPEC, talked to Dirk Lorenzen after the ApPEC meeting in Geneva on 20 June 2008.