Track record of applicants including their experience in the field and any plot work carry out The present MUSIC project is the result of a collaboration between the members of EAES Technology Committee and the Board of the EAES. All applicants have big experience in the field of new technologies in laparoscopic surgery. In particular, many of them have taken part in development of new instruments and new techniques for trans-luminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). Since SPA surgery is considered part of this new concept for a micro-invasive approach to the abdominal cavity, we consider their knowledge particularly useful in the coordination of the trial. Considering the high interest on SPA-surgery expressed in recent literature by the international surgical community, the Technology Committee has developed a specific interest in this new branch of surgical innovation.