[Neutron] [OPEN ACCESS]: 24th CERIC Call for Proposals now OPEN [Deadlines: March 3rd / March 31st 2026]

[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 2026 at 17:00 CET* to have a pre-evaluation and the
    possibility to improve your proposal
  * *March 31st 2026 at 17:00 CEST* final submission, recommended only
    for users that are expert in all the techniques requested.

*Upgrades & Maintenance*

*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 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 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:

  * Inelastic Ultraviolet Scattering Offline laboratory
    <https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/inelastic-scattering-with-ultraviolet-radiation-beamline/>
    (*IUVS-Offline*)
  * Offline Synchrotron Infrared Source for Spectroscopy and Imaging –
    Chemistry & Life Science
    <https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/synchrotron-infrared-source-for-spectroscopy-and-imaging-offline-access/> 
    (*SISSI-Bio OFF-line*)
  * Czech Materials Science Beamline (*MSB*) 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.

*RUĐER BOŠKOVIĆ INSTITUTE*
The ion beam Croatian facilty at the Ruđer Bošković Institute is 
undergoing a major upgrade to the accelerator building and is expected 
to be fully operational by the end of the year. Accepted proposals will 
therefore be performed at the earliest starting from the end of 2026.

CERIC continues to offer access to the following facilities:

  * *Microfrabrication Laboratory
    <https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/microfabrication-laboratory/>*
    of TU Graz at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste
  * *600 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (Bond)
    <https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/600-mhz-nuclear-magnetic-resonance-spectrometer-bond/>*
    for solid-state research at the Slovenian NMR Centre in Ljubljana

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

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