Events

10 years of CERIC and membership of Croatia

Date
06.12.2024

Location
Ruđer Bošković Institute


After the official celebration of CERIC’s 10th anniversary held in Brussels on November 21st, 2024, each of the member countries has been organising a local event to recall the steps that led to the formation of CERIC. The goal is to highlight the impact that CERIC had – and will have – on the participating Countries, as well as on the European scientific panorama, in particular with regard to the European Research Area (ERA).

In the case of Croatia, the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) is appointed as a ‘Representing Entity’, to support the scientific/technical operation of CERIC-ERIC including the provision of access to its ‘Partner Facility’ which is RBI accelerator infrastructure.

On Friday, December 6th, 2024, from 09:00 to 12:00 CET, RBI will celebrate CERIC’s 10th anniversary and its long-standing contribution to the Consortium. The event will be held in the 3rd wing lecture hall at the RBI premises in Zagreb.

PROGRAMME:

9:30 – 10:00 – Opening ceremony, welcome

  • David M. Smith, Director general, Ruđer Bošković Institute
  • Hrvoje Meštrić, Director for Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Education
  • Heinz Amenitsch, Chair of BoD, CERIC-ERIC & TU Graz
  • Andrew Harrison, Executive director, CERIC-ERIC, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy, CERIC-ERIC Open for science, introduction

10:00 – 10:30 – Croatian contribution to CERIC

  • Milko Jakšić, The first 10 years of CERIC activities at RBI
  • Zdravko Siketić, Present and future access to accelerator-based techniques within CERIC

10:30 – Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 – CERIC related research

  • Janez Plavec, Director of Slovenian partner facility, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, NMR studies of structural flexibility of non-canonical DNA
  • Marko Karlušić, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Investigation of heavy ion irradiation effects by TEM and GISAXS