CERIC offers a free, multidisciplinary open access service for users selected on quality by international competition, offering complementary analytical and modification techniques for nano-level science and technology.
> Learn moreCERIC is an innovation ecosystem for industry, offering services and technologies, technical and scientific knowledge and skills, and strong industry expertise, with a strategic outlook in nanotech.
> Learn moreCERIC is a trading post for Research, Education and Industry, driving innovation in Europe, and responding to multiple challenges by attracting the best capabilities at world level.
> Learn moreThe CERIC’s 2025 Special Newsletter Edition is out with a message from the Director highlighting our key achievements in 2025 and sending our Season’s greetings to the whole CERIC community. Read the CERIC’s 2025 Special Newsletter Edition here What you will find in this issue: The editorial by our Executive Director, Professor Andrew Harrison. The…
The 23rd CERIC-ERIC Call for Proposals (semester 2025.2) has officially closed. The call has been a unique occasion for researchers from all over the world working to request open access to more than 60 techniques, instruments and support laboratories for materials characterisation measurements, through a single entry-point. During this Call, a total of 125 proposals have been collected. Since some…
Scientists uncovered rare microplastic ingestion in Antarctica’s only endemic insect, raising questions about long-term impacts on such a fragile ecosystem. Trieste, 02 December 2025 – A new study, supported by the research infrastructure consortium CERIC-ERIC, has found that microplastics – tiny fragments of plastic less than 5 mm in size – have begun to infiltrate…
CERIC-ERIC is a multidisciplinary Research Infrastructure open for basic and applied users in the fields of Materials, Biomaterials and Nanotechnology. With a single entry point to excellent facilities in Central and Eastern Europe, it allows structural investigation, analysis and synthesis of materials, using photon, electron, neutron and ion based techniques. It enables the delivery of innovative solutions to societal challenges in the fields of energy, health, food, cultural heritage and more.
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