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Welcome to the European Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser User Organisation
ESUO, the European Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser User Organisation offers to represent all users of synchrotron and free electron-laser facilities in Europe. Such state-of-the-art facilities enable various kinds of experiments in fields ranging from physics through life sciences to cultural heritage to be conducted. At present, users from 31 European member states and European associated countries are represented by ESUO national delegates / representatives.

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UPCOMING 18TH ESUO GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 29-30 AUGUST 2022 AT SOLEIL SYNCHROTRON

July 28, 2022 0 comment
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17th ESUO General Assembly – report of meeting

June 14, 2022 0 comment
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ESUO online General Assembly on May 16th 2022

April 6, 2022 0 comment
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ESUO statement on Ukraine

March 17, 2022 0 comment
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16th ESUO General Assembly of October 18/19 2021

October 21, 2021 0 comment
ESUO questionnaire

Possible impacts of the absence of transnational access funding support for the user community

August 19, 2021 0 comment
  • Welcome to the European Synchrotron and Free-electron laser User Organisation ESUO, the European Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser User Organisation offers to represent all users of synchrotron and free electron-laser facilities in Europe. Such state-of-the-art facilities enable various kinds of experiments ranging from physics through life sciences to cultural heritage to be conducted. At present, users from 30 European member states and European associated countries are represented by ESUO national delegates / representatives.

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UPCOMING 18TH ESUO GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 29-30 AUGUST 2022 AT SOLEIL SYNCHROTRON

The 18th ESUO General Assembly meeting – an in person and online meeting – will be held on 29-30th August 2022 and will be hosted by Soleil synchrotron. The Election of a new Executive Board member will take place. Registration is open until the 11th of August and attendance is by invitation only. Please register here.

AGENDA

The agenda will cover among others the topics listed below:

  • News from Soleil, LEAPS, ESFRI and ESRF-EBS;
  • Presentation of initiatives and projects regarding different aspects of user access;
  • A panel discussion on the topic ‘Positioning analytical SR/FEL facilities for challenge-driven research and new curiosity-driven frontier research while sustaining access for all European researchers’;
  • Overview of ESUO activities, news from the national user organisation and discussion on the ESUO’s internal organisation;
  • Election of a new member of the ESUO Executive Board
July 28, 2022
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17th ESUO General Assembly – report of meeting

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 of ESUO activities since the previous General Assembly of October 2021. This gave a brief overview of the Executive Board activities and interactions with LEAPS, the European Commission and ENSA in the immediate run up to the 17th General Assembly.

Welcome to Romania: ESUO was able celebrate that a national delegate to represent ROMANIA, Ovidiu Crisan was admitted to ESUO, bringing the total to 31 nations that have representation within ESUO. The national delegates present voted in favour until a majority of all member nations had been reached with there being no dissenting votes.  Bine ati venit!

Summary of the results of the ESUO User Survey on the absence of Trans National Access funding:
 
A summary of the ESUO User Survey results was presented with a statistical analysis of the questions, accompanied by selected individual responses to the key first question as to whether a user could come to a synchrotron/FEL in the absence of trans-national access (TNA) funding. The total response was 596 submissions, mainly from older established researchers, comparing well with the 2630 recipients of TNA under CALIPSOplus over the 4.5 yr duration. The results of the survey and selected comments had been presented to representative s of the European Commission and ESFRI in a meeting on March 21st 2022 as facilitated by LEAPS.

Mandates: A reminder was given to the assembled delegates that mandates are required of all national delegates as per the ESUO Statutes (as noted in presentation). A template of a mandate and several examples of a mandating authority were noted as being acceptable if the national user organisation were not a formal entity capable of issuing a mandate themselves.

ESUO-LEAPS Strategic Partnership: The ESUO-LEAPS partnership which has been in place for a year was discussed and delegates were informed both on the overall internal structure of LEAPS, but also where the representatives of ESUO are and would continue to be active in providing user voices within that organisational structure of strategy groups, work groups and task forces. The key aspects of the LEAPS commitment to ESUO and the ESUO commitment to LEAPS were discussed, together with the previously agreed medium term activities of ESUO as of April 2021. A discussion of the previous 4th LEAPS plenary, and LEAPS responses to Challenge Driven topics in Horizon Europe leading to new challenge driven access modalities. These were discussed with LEAPS in various interactions and in preparation for the LEAPS European Strategy on Accelerator Based Photon Sources 2022 (ESAPS 2022) were discussed. [Note the LEAPS ESAPS 2022 stategy was formally launched on May 31st in Brussels. ESUO participated and supported LEAPS in this launch event.] The ESAPS strategy may be discussed in full at the next ESUO GA in August.

Vacancy on the ESUO Executive Board: There will be a vacancy at the ESUO Executive Board from 1st July 2022. This will be the date that Federico Boscherini takes up a new role as chair of the Eu.XFEL Council. It was agreed that the election of the new EB member will be done during the upcoming ESUO GA meeting on the 29th of August. By ESUO Statutes, the replacement should be representative of the FEL user community. Further, ESUO Statutes also restrict the nationality to be of a nationality other than that represented Please contact the President of ESUO if you would be available for this position.

Horizon Europe call: HORIZON-INsFRA-2023-SERV-01-03:  The opportunities associated with the draft topic named “Research infrastructures services advancing frontier knowledge: co-fund pilots with pan-European RIs and/or national RIs”, in the draft Horizon Europe Research Infrastructures Work Programme 2023-2024 was discussed in full where the topic is intended as a Co-Funded pilot programme which would primarily deliver trans-national access support for curiosity driven research to consortia of large scale research infrastructures. The details of the scope, language, funding, expected outcomes and eligibility criteria were outlined during this talk. The national delegates had been tasked in the weeks before the GA with supporting a joint lobbying by ESUO+ENSA national delegates in each nation with a letter to the National Contact Points on the Research Infrastructures committee in relation to the topic and the intended response to it of the LEAPS+LENS+ESUO+ENSA photon and neutron communities to this call when it would be published later in the autumn of 2022. The thinking behind the ESUO President and EBs thinking in calling for a joint photon and neutron response to this topic was outlined, linking the CALIPSOplus final meeting, the LEAPS 4th plenary meeting, the interaction with the Commission in March 2022 and in meetings with ENSA in April 2022. The president of ENSA, Henrik Rønnow attended for this section of the meeting. Note that on the day following the GA meeting, the RI committee meeting in Brussels retained the language of this topic in the draft work programme. Follow up meetings with ENSA and with LEAPS and LENS are to still occur.

Internal organisation and scope of ESUO activities: It remains a challenge for ESUO to both sustain itself into the future, in the potential absence of any programmatic funding as in the past, and also to define the role that ESUO could and should play as these all depend upon human resources, time and finances. This topic introduced delegates to the need for input to the ESUO EB in advance of developing final proposals regarding funding, membership fees, preferred and priority activities and internal organisation of ESUO to be clarified and voted upon in the next General Assembly in August 2022. (See presentation).

Next General Assembly August 29th /30th 2022 @SOLEIL: The dates and location of the next in-person ESUO General Assembly were discussed, with likely topics. The details will follow in due time but please book the dates in your agendas.

The meeting then ended but with a number of requests for delegates to prepare in advance of the next General Assembly.

 

June 14, 2022
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ESUO online General Assembly on May 16th 2022

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 LEAPS consortium for the administrative and financial support that underpins these meetings.
In our first meeting in May we would be delighted to welcome all of the ESUO delegates where we will discuss together the different activities of ESUO and our strategic partner LEAPS, our current status and the plans for the future. In brief, an indicative agenda has already been circulated, while the complete agenda of the online meeting in May will be sent in few weeks and will also be circulated by email. That agenda will detail the topics of the meeting, and guest speakers, as well as the planned length of the meeting which will be refined further.

We take the opportunity to more formally announce to all ESUO delegates that Prof. Bridget Murphy (Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, DE and a German delegate to ESUO) was elected as Vice-President of ESUO form within the EB. Further within the Executive Board, Prof. Derek Nolan, (Professor, Section for Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Dept. of Chemistry, Lund University, Lund, SE and a Swedish delegate to ESUO) has been appointed formally as the Secretary to ESUO, while Prof. Carla Bittenourt (Department of Chemistry, University of Mons, Mons, BE and a Belgian delegate to ESUO) has been appointed formally as the Treasurer of ESUO. The rest of the Executive Board is listed at https://www.esuo.eu/about-esuo/structure-and-governance/:
See you in May!

Registration: Registration for the meeting is available through https://indico.cells.es/event/1166/ and the Agenda and schedule for the meeting, scheduled to run from 14:00-18:00 CEST is available there too.

 

 

April 6, 2022
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ESUO statement on Ukraine

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, and of the Ukrainian scientists in our community and their families, and in addition all of those people affected either directly or indirectly by the ongoing war.

As ESUO our interests and objectives are purely to advocate on behalf of all of the European users of the European advanced research facilities that are synchrotron and free electron laser sources. ESUO are supportive of all of the actions undertaken thus far by the respective synchrotron and free electron laser facilities in freezing any formal cooperation with the Russian Federation and their research institutes.

An expectation has always been that as scientists and as users when performing research we collectively participate in peaceful scientific cooperation for the advancement of society and the expansion of our knowledge base for the good of all.

ESUO exists as a collection of nominated national delegates from national user organisations and facility user organisations drawn from the scientists who use the advanced research facilities of synchrotron and free electron lasers. The current membership of ESUO is drawn from across almost all European nations, EU nations, EU candidate countries, EU associated countries, and the UK. ESUO has not had to this date any representative or national delegates from the Russian Federation or Belarus, nor to this date any representative or national delegate from Ukraine.

ESUO notes that there are many Ukrainian scientists and users of European synchrotron and FEL facilities who have either been displaced by the conflict from their home institutions in Ukraine, or were already based in other countries and engaged in research there. We sincerely hope they and their fellow scientists and family members are well and safe in these troubling times. As a gesture of European solidarity with the Ukrainian scientists in our community we wish to reach out to them to form a Ukrainian Synchrotron Users Organisation and will look forward to welcoming as an observer a Ukrainian delegate into ESUO at the earliest opportunity.

ESUO recognises the Russian scientific colleagues, co-workers, and students within our community who are against the war. We all look forward to when we can see a return to peaceful cooperation and coexistence between countries.


Of many initiatives too numerous to list perhaps a good resource is: https://scienceforukraine.eu/ and https://twitter.com/Sci_for_Ukraine

March 17, 2022
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