23rd CERIC Call for Proposals now OPEN
CERIC 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 the Virtual Unified Office – VUO.
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:
- Inelastic Ultraviolet Scattering Offline laboratory (IUVS-Offline)
- Offline Synchrotron Infrared Source for Spectroscopy and Imaging – Chemistry & Life Science (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] remain available. Please contact the local staff before submission.
JRC Nanobiotechnology Laboratory
The 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 []
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:
- Dual Beam Irradiation Station – 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
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 check the web page about the call.
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