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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 32 European member states and European associated countries are represented by ESUO national delegates / representatives.

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ESUO forms Special Interest Group on Business, Industry and Intermediary Companies

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ESUO meets in combination with ENSA and the DAPHNE4NFDI project for a European Data Policy meeting and a joint ESUO and ENSA meeting

November 12, 2023 0 comment
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NEPHEWS: A project funded in response to the “advancing frontier knowledge” call of Horizon Europe from ESUO with LEAPS, together with ENSA and LENS.

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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 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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ESUO forms Special Interest Group on Business, Industry and Intermediary Companies

The ESUO General Assembly committed to forming a Special Interest Group (SIG) on  Business, Industry and Intermediary Companies. A call for participation went out to both ESUO national delegates, and to known interested representatives of businesses, industries and intermediary companies who are users of the European lightsource facilities. In this first meeting in November 2024 the business and industry participants were joined by those intermediary companies particularly drawn from the “Mediators connecting industry to X-rays and neutrons” (MIXN) network https://mixn.org/  Many ESUO delegates joined with these, some of whom are themselves involved in instrument or intermediary companies within their national arenas.  Part of ESUOs missions is to represent the interests and needs of all users of synchrotron and FEL facilities in Europe, which of course includes industrial and business users and their clients. 

The first online meeting of this ESUO SIG drew planned participation from 22 members, of whom 21 were able to join. These included ten national delegates of ESUO of whom three are involved in businesses and intermediary companies. These include SARomics Biostructures (Sweden), LynXes Innovation Kft. (Hungary) and the BioMERA platform (Cyprus). Among the additional 10 participating businesses, industries and other companies were representatives of Science as a Service, Datzmann interact & innovate, Finden Ltd, KAI – Infineon Technologies, Scatterin AB, DECTRIS, Tiller Alpha, and TX Products,  Xploraytion GmbH, as well as Momentum Transfer. ESUO gives special thanks to Uwe Sassenberg for his engagement with us in this area, who now personally represents Science As A Service (https://www.sasas.eu/en) and has been integral in developing the MIXN network.

The initial meeting of this SIG started with the ESUO President Cormac McGuinness introducing ESUO, it’s structure, vision and missions to the business and industry participants emphasising its role in supporting European photon science users from across the European Research Area.  The participating business and industry representatives then reciprocated by introducing themselves. The purpose of the SIG was initially to introduce the academic user community representatives to the industrial users and to seek common ground. ESUO aims to advocate for equitable access to lightsources and advocate for users from both academia and industry, focusing on removing barriers to access. Historically ESUO has not been as involved with industrial users as with academic users represented on national basis and this was an opportunity to increase ESUO and industry’s mutual engagement on a European basis. There is potential to increase or create stronger partnerships with industries and national ESUO delegates and their user communities that they represent.

The diverse challenges and needs of industrial users were discussed inclusive of the need for better visibility and a discussion on strategies and information sharing ensued within the meeting. The importance of the continued adoption of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data practices was highlighted as beneficial to both academic and industrial users, potentially easing data management, sharing, and governance challenges. It was noted that business data practices mirror FAIR internally.

Among the challenges faced by industry and business users of lightsources are the multiple regulatory and compliance barriers and regulations, which can complicate collaborations between industry and research facilities. There was agreement that these barriers could be explored further with a view to working towards establishing clear policies that support equitable collaboration.

A commitment for the second meeting of this SIG was made, with a view to refining defined actions to be taken in collaboration with each other. This would then be the opportunity to involve further participants in advance of a potential meeting or workshop on a topic to be decided.

Finally, ESUO and industry participants agreed on the importance of machine learning and data standards for spectroscopies as an important point to help accelerate innovation and discovery for industrial and academic users at European lightsource facilities.

Image of participants in 1st meeting of the ESUO SIG on Business, Industry and Intermediary Companies

Participants in 1st meeting of the ESUO SIG on Business, Industry and Intermediary Companies

If you want to participate in the next SIG on Business, Industry and Intermediary Companies, then please contact ESUO and the Vice President Bridget Murphy in cc: with the ESUO Treasurer Carla Bittencourt.

 

March 4, 2025
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NEPHEWS project – opportunities for early stage researchers

It is great to report that the NEPHEWS project is well underway and that the next phase of supports for early stage researchers (ESR) and particularly those new to the fields of synchrotron (SR), free-electron laser (FEL) and neutron (N) science, are now open for application until November 15th. These announcements are at the NEPHEWS website at www.beamtime.eu and these new ESR supports are in addition to the previously announced Twinning activities at the large scale research infrastructures (RI) that are participating in NEPHEWS. This is in addition to the many RI within NEPHEWS that are offering supported access by the Trans-national Access (TNA) funds available for research groups being awarded beamtime within NEPHEWS.

These community building ESR and Twinning activities include those RI that are not otherwise offering TNA directly.  Regarding the ESRs programme, from the NEPHEWS website:

It is important for science community future that the finest talent is developed within the research system. In the NEPHEWS project, consortium partners will offer support to 24 young scientists.

Early Stage Researchers (ESR) will make working visits that will allow them to get to know the Research Infrastructures (RIs) from many perspectives. Participants accepted into the ESR Programme will get a practical short-term (up to 1 week) internship at a Synchrotron (SR), Free Electron Laser (FEL) or Neutron (N) facilities, gathering knowledge of different research techniques and on their applicability to different research fields, getting first practical experiences and gaining a better understanding of access policy, offer and other aspects of the facilities’ activities, such as technology transfer or innovation stimulation through individualized programmes.

These funded visits for ESRs at stages denoted as R1 and R2. ESR refers to individuals who are in the early stages of their research career, generally before they achieve full independence in their field.

NEPHEWS will support:

  • R1: First Stage Researcher (up to the point of PhD),
  • R2: Recognised Researcher (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent).

Particular priority in these opportunities is firstly given to those researchers whose affiliation and nationality comes from one of the 8 selected countries within NEPHEWS (Estonia, Finland, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine), but after that support will be offered to users whose nationality is from other Widening countries or in countries without RI.

Please circulate in your national communities about the ESR opportunities, the Twinning opportunities as well as the TNA !

 

 

October 22, 2024
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November 28, 2023
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ESUO meets in combination with ENSA and the DAPHNE4NFDI project for a European Data Policy meeting and a joint ESUO and ENSA meeting

The users of all Photon and Neutron (PaN) facilities in Europe are currently required by the European Union and many national funding agencies to implement FAIR -Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable- data principles for all experiments realized on the basis of public funding. The implementation of the FAIR principles constitutes a major challenge for both the PaN facilities and also for the user communities and needs to be solved in a common approach with a shared accountability. The process of FAIR implementation in the PaN facilities is guided by LEAPS and LENS. In Germany the user representatives of KFS (Komitee Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung) and KFN (Komitee Forschung mit Neutronen) initiated the DAta from PHoton and Neutron Experiments –DAPHNE4NFDI– project in which users and facilities are collaborating to make data FAIR and is building upon the groundbreaking work of the PaNOSC and ExPaNDS projects. 

The European users’ organizations ENSA and ESUO in collaboration with the DAPHNE4NFDI consortium are developing a “white paper” addressing the topics and implications of FAIR data and Open Data policy for the European PaN community.  This is occurring via joint meeting at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland from November 13th to November 15th, 2023.

ESUO logo; ENSA logo; DAPHNE4NFDI logoThe purpose of the first part of this meeting is to involve the users via their national representatives in ENSA and ESUO to get as wide as possible an input and discuss the issues from differing national user communities’ perspectives.

The second part of the meeting will consist of firstly a joint meeting of the two European Users organizations to exchange on topics related to the planning of the role and tasks of the organizations under NEPHEWS, a recently granted Horizon Europe (HE) project for Transnational Access (TNA) to the facilities and for twinning activities mainly for researchers from the Widening countries.

Furthermore, ESUO will hold its 19th General Assembly meeting on the 15th of November (the detailed agenda of this part of the meeting will be communicated to the ESUO national delegates in due time).

We are all looking forward to participating with ESUO and ENSA delegates in these objectives together with DAPHNE4NFDI personnel at PSI. See you there!

November 12, 2023
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