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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:</font></p>
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<li><font face="Calibri"><b>March 3rd 2026 at 17:00 CET</b>
to have a pre-evaluation and the possibility to
improve your proposal</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri"><b>March 31st 2026 at 17:00
CEST</b> final submission, recommended only for
users that are expert in all the techniques
requested.</font></li>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><b>Upgrades & Maintenance</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><b>ELETTRA 2.0</b><br>
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 <b>access
will not be offered to the beamlines located at
Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste</b>, including the
Austrian SAXS beamline.</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><b>Three offline beamlines</b>
will instead keep offering access:<br>
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<li><font face="Calibri"><a href="https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/inelastic-scattering-with-ultraviolet-radiation-beamline/" moz-do-not-send="true">Inelastic Ultraviolet
Scattering Offline laboratory</a> (<b>IUVS-Offline</b>)</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri"><a href="https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/synchrotron-infrared-source-for-spectroscopy-and-imaging-offline-access/" moz-do-not-send="true">Offline Synchrotron
Infrared Source for Spectroscopy and Imaging –
Chemistry & Life Science</a> (<b>SISSI-Bio
OFF-line</b>)</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Czech Materials Science
Beamline (<b>MSB</b>) 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 [<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.</font></li>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><b>RUĐER BOŠKOVIĆ INSTITUTE</b><br>
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.</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri">CERIC continues to offer access to
the following facilities:<br>
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<li><font face="Calibri"><b><a href="https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/microfabrication-laboratory/" moz-do-not-send="true">Microfrabrication
Laboratory</a></b> of TU Graz at Elettra
Sincrotrone Trieste</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri"><b><a href="https://www.ceric-eric.eu/lab-instrument/600-mhz-nuclear-magnetic-resonance-spectrometer-bond/" moz-do-not-send="true">600 MHz Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance Spectrometer (Bond)</a></b> for
solid-state research at the Slovenian NMR Centre in
Ljubljana</font></li>
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<p><font face="Calibri">For further information about the
call, please visit <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></font></p>
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