 CERN's participation in DUNE marked a new direction in CERN’s neutrino’s research  and the experiments are referred to as part of the Neutrino Platform in the laboratory's research programme.The project was originally started as a US-only project called the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE); in around 2012–2014 a descope was considered with a near-surface detector to reduce cost.However, the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) concluded in its 2014 report that the research activity being pursued by LBNE "should be reformulated under the auspices of a new international collaboration, as an internationally coordinated and internationally funded program, with Fermilab as host", reverting to a deep-underground detector.