The virtual 17th General Assembly and virtual meeting on May 16th 2022 saw the participation of delegates from 25 (out of 30) member countries. In total 35 ESUO delegates joined the meeting. The topics of the meeting are listed here. ESUO Activities: The meeting began with a summary or recap…

The European Synchrotron and FEL Users Organisation will hold an online General Assembly – our 17th – on Monday may 16th 2022, to be followed later in the year by a face-to-face in-person General Assembly – our 18th – on 29th and 30th August at Synchrotron Soleil. Many thanks to…

The European Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Users Organisation (ESUO) unreservedly condemns the invasion by the Russian Federation of Ukraine, and the war of aggression against that sovereign independent country, its people and its institutions. These tragic events must stop. Our thoughts are for the safety of the Ukrainian people,…

Meeting The 16th ESUO General Assembly – a hybrid in person and online meeting – occurred on October 18th and 19th of 2021, with the host facilities being DESY and EU-XFEL. Elections of the new ESUO President and Executive Board took place during the meeting, ESUO has now become an…

As you may know, a general programme for Trans-National Access (TNA) to synchrotron and FEL facilities will no longer be funded by the European Commission when the H2020 CALIPSOplus project expires in October 2021 (http://www.calipsoplus.eu/trans-national-access/).  This may give rise to severe problems for many facility users. In order to address…

Happy International Day of Light 2021! We are very pleased to celebrate synchrotron and FEL light which enable fantastic scientific research, collaboration, knowledge transfer and much more. 

ESUO medium-term activities proposed as part of the H2020 European CALIPSOplus project and LEAPS, and recently elaborated by the ESUO executive committee, are presented here.

The 13th ESUO annual meeting was initially scheduled on April 16th-17th, 2020 at DESY and European XFEL. Due to the developing situation with respect to the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the present meeting, in agreement with the local hosting teams, was postponed to a later date and a remote…

The 1st Regional Workshop of the European Synchrotron and FEL User Organisation (ESUO) took place on August 28th, 2019 in Belgrade in Serbia, as a satellite event of the Photonica2019 conference. Two sessions were organized: a session opened to the conference participants and held at the Serbian Academy of Sciences…

The 12th Annual Meeting of the European Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser User Organisation (ESUO), which was hold on March 20th-21st, 2019, was kindly hosted by FELIX Laboratory and Radboud University. ESUO user representatives from 23 ESUO countries as well as CALIPSOplus participants from the project management and the Networking…