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GANIL presently offers unique opportunities in nuclear physics and many other fields that arise from not only the provision of low-energy stable beams,fragmentation beams and re-accelerated radioactive species,but also from the availability of a wide range of state-of-the-art spectrometers and instrumentation.Current research topics include ;the key nuclei to our understanding of the origin and structure of matter in the universe,neutron halos,modification of shell structure investigated around closed shells (N=8,20,28,40),the nucleus as a laboratory for study of fundamental interactions and fusion and fission studies with very heavy ion beams (Xe,U) and the Vamos spectrometer.A few examples of recent highlights are discussed in the present paper.With the construction of SPIRAL2 over the next few years,GANIL is in a good position to retain its worldleading capability.As selected by the ESFRI committee,the next generation of ISOL facility in Europe is represented by the SPIRAL2 project to be built at GANIL (Caen,France).SPIRAL 2 is based on a high power,CW,superconducting LINAC,delivering 5 mA of deuteron beams at 40MeV (200KW) directed on a C converter+ Uranium target and producing therefore more 1013 fissions/s.The expected radioactive beams intensities in the mass range from A=60 to A=140,will surpass by two order of magnitude any existing facilities in the world.These unstable atoms will be available at energies between few KeV/n to 15 MeV/n.The same driver will accelerate high intensity (100*A to 1 mA),heavier ions (Ar up to Xe) at maximum energy of 14 MeV/n.Under the 7FP program of European Union called *Preparatory phase*,the SPIRAL2 project has been granted a budget of about 4M€ to build up an international consortium around this new venture.The status of the construction of SPIRAL2 accelerator and associated physics instruments in collaboration with EU and International partners will be presented.