[Neutron] [OPEN ACCESS]: 23rd CERIC Call for Proposals now OPEN [Deadlines: September 1st / October 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:

  * *September 1st 2025*, at 17:00 CEST, to have a pre-evaluation and
    the possibility to improve your proposal;
  * *October 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?*

_*Elettra 2.0*_ >> Starting from July 2nd, 2025, the removal of Elettra 
and the installation of the new Elettra 2.0 machine has begun at the 
CERIC Italian Partner 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 our 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. *

Three *offline beamlines* will instead keep offering access:

  * PRP at CERIC Inelastic Ultraviolet Scattering Offline laboratory
    (*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/>*)
  * Czech Materials Science Beamline (*MSB*
    <https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/materials-science-beamline/>)
    at Elettra offers offline photoemission experiments with a
    dual-anode (Mg/Al) X-ray lamp as photon source.


Most of the end-station facilities described on the website [LINK 
<https://www.elettra.eu/lightsources/elettra/elettra-beamlines/msb/manuals.html>] 
remain available. Please contact the local staff before submission.
_*
*_

  * _*JRC Nanobiotechnology Laboratory*_ in Ispra 
>> has extended its
    equipment portfolio available to CERIC users. Please check out the
    enhanced capabilities in SEPARATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF
    NANOMATERIALS AND PROTEIN CHARACTERISATION, MATERIAL
    CHARACTERISATION AND SURFACE ANALYSIS at the dedicated webpage [LINK
    <https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/jrc-nanobiotechnology-laboratory/>]


  * *_Ruđer Bošković Institute_* >> 
For maintenance reasons, the ion
    beam Croatian facilty at the RBI will be partially operational and
    will be offering limited access starting from Spring 2026 only to
    the following instruments:

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

*CERIC continues to offer access to the following instruments, available 
since 2025:
*

  * *TomoLab *at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste
  * *TeraFERMI *at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste*
    *

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

<https://twitter.com/CERICnews/status/1485985479539544064> Share on 
Linkedin 
<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ceric-eric_researchopportunity-callfroproposals-openforscience-activity-7356229452562841601-33ex?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAA55DaYB2RS10AdoYxOIwzUVmIC3jDe8GG0>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.neutronsources.org/pipermail/neutron/attachments/20250730/b763e538/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: CERIC-CallForProposals-BannerSocial-wText.png
Type: image/png
Size: 277150 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.neutronsources.org/pipermail/neutron/attachments/20250730/b763e538/attachment.png>