[Neutron] [OPEN ACCESS]: 22nd CERIC Call for Proposals now OPEN [Deadlines: March 3rd / April 1st 2025]

[Nicoletta Carboni]

*CERIC Call for Proposals Now Open*

The Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium, CERIC-ERIC 
<http://ceric-eric.eu/> is calling for proposals for coordinated access 
to more than 60 instruments and support laboratories for research in all 
fields of materials, biomaterials and nanotechnology. The call is open 
to researchers from all over the world. In addition to the possibility 
to access several instruments through a single application, we offer 
support for mobility.

To apply, use the link "Submit a new CERIC proposal" in our Virtual 
Unified Office - VUO, at https://vuo.elettra.trieste.it/

As usual, there will be two deadlines:

  * *March 3rd 2025*, at 17:00 CEST, to have a pre-evaluation and the
    possibility to improve your proposal.
  * *April 1st 2025*, at 17:00 CEST (final submission), recommended only
    for users that are experts in all the techniques requested.

*What is new in this call?*


*FERMI > *The THz beamline of the FERMI Free-Electron-Laser (FEL) 
facility, *TeraFERMI 
<https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/terafermi/>* is the newest 
addition to the CERIC portfolio. The TeraFERMI beamline will be 
available from the current call for proposals both in online and offline 
mode.

*Elettra 2.0
 > *Starting July 2nd, 2025 the removal of Elettra and the 
installation of the new Elettra 2.0 machine will begin at the CERIC 
Italian Parnter Facility. The new source will exhibit a major increase 
in the brilliance and coherence fraction of the photon beams. The 
Elettra 2.0 optics is based on an enhanced symmetric six bend achromat 
structure (S6BA-E) with a 12-fold symmetry and an emittance of 200 
pm-rad at 2.4 GeV. The new structure creates also straight sections in 
the arcs permitting the installation of additional insertion devices, 
thus increasing the number of beamlines. Existing beamlines are being 
upgraded and new beamlines will be installed to take full advantage of 
the characteristics of Elettra 2.0. The new machine is scheduled for 
commissioning in the second half of 2026.


Hence, in the current call for proposals *access will not be offered to 
the beamlines located at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste*, including the 
Austrian SAXS beamline and the Czech Materials Science Beamline (MSB).

Two *offline beamlines* will keep offering access:

  * 
PRP at CERIC Inelastic Ultraviolet Scattering with fixed-energy
    sources *- IUVS-Offline
    <https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/inelastic-scattering-with-ultraviolet-radiation-beamline/>*
  * 
Offline Synchrotron Infrared Source for Spectroscopy and Imaging –
    Chemistry & Life Science - *SISSI-Bio OFF-line
    <https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/synchrotron-infrared-source-for-spectroscopy-and-imaging-offline-access/>*

*Ruđer Bošković Institute*
 > For maintenance reasons the ion beam 
Croatian facilty at the Ruđer Bošković Institute will be partially 
operational and will be offering access only to the following instruments:

  * *Dual Beam Irradiation Station (IRRA) *- only single beam
    irradiation with lower energy ions provided by 1 MV TDT accelerator
  * *Nuclear Microprobe and Detector Testing (Nmicro) *- only ions
    provided by 1 MV TDT accelerator
  * *Particle-Inducted X-ray Emission and Rutherford Backscattering
    (PIXE/RBS)* - only ions provided by 1 MV TDT accelerator

*
For further information about the call, please visit our website*: 
https://www.ceric-eric.eu/users/call-for-proposals/

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