are complemented by some 20 experimental areas, equipped with modern spectrometers and detector systems, which offer outstanding opportunities for fundamental studies in hadron and nuclear matter research [...] elements up to uranium with energies from the Coulomb barrier up to 2 AGeV. In addition, radioactive and cooled stable beams with high charge states up to U 92+ can be delivered. Moreover, also secondary pion [...] mixed electron, proton and pion beams to be used e.g. by the CBM and PANDA collaborations. a CBM full system test-setup called mCBM@SIS18 (”mini-CBM”, shortened to mCBM) is presently being installed at the