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21st CERIC Call for Proposals now OPEN

24.07.2024

CERIC-ERIC is calling for proposals for coordinated access to more than 60 instruments and support laboratories. 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 VUO (https://vuo.elettra.trieste.it/)

As usual, there will be two deadlines:

• September 2nd 2024 at 17:00 CEST, to have a pre-evaluation and the possibility to improve your proposal
• October 1st 2024 at 17:00 CEST (final submission), recommended only for users that are experts in all the techniques requested.

What is new in this call?

Over the last years CERIC has been increasing its capacities in the field of Energy Materials. To this end, three energy storage facilities with state-of-the-art techniques in the field of fuel cells and batteries research, have been recently included in CERIC open access offer:

• European Commissions’s Joint Research Centre for Battery Energy Storage Testing Laboratory and the Fuel Cell and Electrolyser Testing laboratory in Petter, The Netherlands
• Hydrogen Technology Centre (HTC) at Charles University in Prague
• After almost a year, the Inelastic Ultraviolet Scattering with fixed-energy sources (IUVS-Offline) lab at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste is available again in the CERIC offer. The equipment of the laboratory has been enriched of the new Lab Model Deep UV Resonance Raman & Photoluminescence Spectrometer (excitation wavelength at 248 nm with microscopic imaging).

CERIC continues to offer access to:

• AMS-IRMS Accelerator Mass Spectrometry for radiocarbon dating at the CEDAD laboratory of the University of Salento, Italy
• European Commission’s Joint Research Centre Nanobiotechnology Laboratory in Ispra, Italy
• Next Generation Sequencing at the Laboratory for Genomics and Epigenomics (LAGE) in Trieste, Italy

Maintenance

For maintenance reasons, the ion beam facilty at the Ruđer Bošković Institute will not be offering access during the current Call for proposals to their laboratory, therefor the instruments IRRA, NMicro and ToF-ERDA will not be available, while RBSc and PIXE/RBS will be available at the CEDAD laboratory in Lecce.

The Thermal Neutron Three-axis Spectometer (TAST) at the Budapest Neutron Centre is currently out of service and will not be available in the current Call for Proposals.

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