The second face-to-face meeting of the CALIPSOplus work package JRA2 was held as joint meeting May, 23rd-24th  in France, kindly hosted by European Synchrotron and Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble. On day 1 a meeting for UmbrellaID takes place. The JRA2 meeting was focussed on the work package status the…

The European project CALIPSOplus brings together 19 partners offering access to 14 synchrotrons and 8 Free-electron Lasers (FELs) in Europe and the Middle East. In particular, the project is funding industry (SMEs) trans-national access to light sources. The second call for proposals is now open for SMEs.   CALIPSOplus is…

The 32nd Rhine-Knee Regional Meeting on Structural Biology will take place in the heart of Switzerland in Emmetten, September, 26th-28th 2018. Since it was first established in 1987, the annual Regio-Meeting has been instrumental in facilitating interactions in the structural biology community in southwestern Germany, the eastern region of France…

The “GISAS Summer School 2018” will take place at the University Bayreuth will take between 17th and 21st of September 2018 at Bayreuth, Germany.   At this summer school master and PhD students will get the opportunity to measure and analyze their own samples suitable for grazing incidence small and…

The MATRAC 1 School “Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Material Science” will provide a systematic overview of the application of neutrons and synchrotron radiation to the structural analysis of engineering materials. Students and young scientists from research and industry from all of Europe interested in this field are…

Today CALIPSOplus will celebrate the 2018 International Day of Light on May, 16th 2018 with an online event focussing on the CALIPSOplus inclusion programmes. The International Day of Light 2018   The International Day of Light is a global initiative that provides an annual focal point for the continued appreciation…

On Saturday, May 5th 2018, European XFEL invite you to come and look around our campus in Schenefeld! From 12:00 – 18:00 you have the chance to look behind the scenes of our international research facility. There’ll be lots to do for the whole family across the whole site including:…

The 11th Annual Meeting of the European Synchrotron and FEL User Organisation (ESUO) which was hold on April 9th – 10th, 2018, was kindly hosted by the SOLARIS synchrotron in Krakow (Poland). From 30 ESUO countries, 26 ESUO countries and their corresponding national user representative(s), together with CALIPSOplus participating members…

A wealth of excellent research results have been obtained in the last years through the use of large facilities for the investigation of condensed matter. Experiments with neutrons, synchrotron and ion radiation offer complementary possibilities to illuminate the properties of matter in all its facets. For the fourth time (following…

“A world where European science is a catalyst for solving global challenges, a key driver for competitiveness and a compelling force for closer integration and peace through scientific collaboration.” This is the vision of LEAPS, League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources, on which the LEAPS Strategy 2030 is based. Director…