EuCARD-2 was an Integrating Activity Project for coordinated Research and Development on Particle Accelerators, which ran from May 2013 to April 2017. The project was co-funded by the European Commission under its FP7 Capacities Programme.

ARIES aims to build upon the work carried out across EuCARD-2 and its predecessors: EuCARD and CARE.

EuCARD-2 spread its work across 13 Work Packages, divided into Networking Activities, Joint Research Activities and Transnational Access.