Report on state of the art superconducting magnets

The history of superconducting magnets merged with Kamerlingh Onnes in 1911 but the major developments started only in the sixties, strongly pushed by High Energy Physics. The report will focus on the up to date technology and the frontier R&D developments. A synthesis of the expert views on the most critical aspects will be presented in order to select the more suitable R&D actions and technology pilots to be launched within FuSuMaTech.