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<p align="center"><font size="+1" face="Calibri"><b>CERIC Call
for Proposals Now Open</b></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri">The <a href="http://ceric-eric.eu/" moz-do-not-send="true">Central European Research
Infrastructure Consortium, CERIC-ERIC</a> 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.<br>
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To apply, use the link "Submit a new CERIC proposal" in
our Virtual Unified Office - VUO, at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vuo.elettra.trieste.it/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://vuo.elettra.trieste.it/</a><br>
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As usual, there will be two deadlines: <br>
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<li><font face="Calibri"><b>September 1st 2025</b>, at 17:00
CEST, to have a pre-evaluation and the possibility to
improve your proposal; </font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri"><b>October 1st 2025</b>, at 17:00
CEST (final submission), recommended only for users that
are experts in all the techniques requested. </font></li>
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<p><b>What is new in this call?</b></p>
<p><u><b>Elettra 2.0</b></u> >> 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.<br>
Hence, in the current call for proposals <b>access will not
be offered to the beamlines located at Elettra Sincrotrone
Trieste, including the Austrian SAXS beamline. </b><br>
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<p>Three <b>offline beamlines</b> will instead keep offering
access:<br>
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<li>PRP@CERIC Inelastic Ultraviolet Scattering Offline
laboratory (<a href="https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/inelastic-scattering-with-ultraviolet-radiation-beamline/" moz-do-not-send="true"><b>IUVS-Offline</b></a>)</li>
<li>Offline Synchrotron Infrared Source for Spectroscopy and
Imaging - Chemistry & Life Science (<b><a href="https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/synchrotron-infrared-source-for-spectroscopy-and-imaging-offline-access/" moz-do-not-send="true">SISSI-Bio OFF-line</a></b>)</li>
<li>Czech Materials Science Beamline (<a href="https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/materials-science-beamline/" moz-do-not-send="true"><b>MSB</b></a>) at Elettra offers
offline photoemission experiments with a dual-anode
(Mg/Al) X-ray lamp as photon source. </li>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">Most of the end-station
facilities described on the website [<a href="https://www.elettra.eu/lightsources/elettra/elettra-beamlines/msb/manuals.html" moz-do-not-send="true">LINK</a>] remain available. Please
contact the local staff before submission.</div>
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<li><u><b>JRC Nanobiotechnology Laboratory</b></u> 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 [<a href="https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/jrc-nanobiotechnology-laboratory/" moz-do-not-send="true">LINK</a>] <br>
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<li><b><u>Ruđer Bošković Institute</u></b> >>
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:</li>
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<li>Dual Beam Irradiation Station (<b>IRRA</b>) - only
single beam irradiation with lower energy ions provided
by 1 MV TDT accelerator</li>
<li>Nuclear Microprobe and Detector Testing (<b>Nmicro</b>)-
only ions provided by 1 MV TDT accelerator</li>
<li>Particle-Inducted X-ray Emission and Rutherford
Backscattering (<b>PIXE/RBS</b>)- only ions provided by
1 MV TDT accelerator</li>
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<div class="moz-forward-container"><b>CERIC continues to offer
access to the following instruments, available since 2025:
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<li><b>TomoLab </b>at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste</li>
<li><b>TeraFERMI </b>at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste<b><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>For
further information about the call, please visit our
website at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ceric-eric.eu/users/call-for-proposals/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ceric-eric.eu/users/call-for-proposals/</a>
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