CERIC-ERIC

Instruct-ERIC is a pan-European distributed research infrastructure making high-end technologies and methods in structural biology available to users. Instruct-ERIC is comprised of 17 Member Countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, EMBL, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and United Kingdom. Instruct-ERIC provides open access to cutting edge structural biology, specifically supporting research that uses integrated approaches and technologies. Instruct was established during the European Research Infrastructure Preparatory Phase of the ESFRI roadmap, becoming operational in 2012. Instruct-ERIC works closely with other Biological and Medical Sciences (BMS) Research Infrastructures. Instruct-ERIC infrastructure is supported primarily by Member State funding that provides a long-term foundation for Instruct. Instruct-ERIC also receives external funding through European projects and other programmes to provide funding for Instruct services. Instruct-ERIC publish highlights from recent publications by users at our Instruct centres.

The Extreme Light Infrastructure is the world's largest and most advanced high-power laser infrastructure and a global technology and innovation leader in high-power, high-intensity, and short-pulsed laser systems. ELI is the first ESFRI Landmark constructed in the Central Eastern European Member States. As the technology develops and spreads, it becomes one of the more cost-effective means to conduct ‘big science’ in physics, biology and materials science. The commissioning of the facilities is foreseen to be completed in 2022-2023, and advanced, specific experimental capabilities have already come online since 2019. The special vibration-free buildings that host the lasers and the experiments have been commissioned. On 30 April 2021, the ELI European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ELI ERIC) was established to jointly manage the operations of the ELI facilities (initially ELI-ALPS and ELI Beamlines) for the benefit of international academic and industrial researchers. The European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) is a legal framework created by the European Commission to allow the operation of Research Infrastructures of Pan-European interest. In Dolni Brezany, near Prague, Czech Republic, the ELI-Beamlines facility mainly will focus on the development of short-pulse secondary sources of radiation and particles, and on their multidisciplinary applications in molecular, biomedical and material sciences, physics of dense plasmas, warm dense matter, laboratory astrophysics.

Your analyses will provide fundamental insights to your material, helping you to understand the bigger picture; alternatively, they may bring answers to applied scientific questions, leading to new technology, new resources, and more sustainable solutions. The EXCITE Network makes leading-edge research facilities accessible to all Earth scientists. We connect with you, offer access to workshops and webinars, help to prepare your proposals for facility access, and actively support your research goals. The EXCITE Network is a European H2020 infrastructure tailored to advance the imaging of Earth and planetary materials. Twenty-four facilities in nine countries join hands, committed to facilitate your scientific progress and to bring a positive impact on research, industry, and society. The European EXCITE Network offers you a chance to use both excellent electron and X-ray facilities, and to team up with leading Earth-materials scientists. The EXCITE Network is offering you exactly that: our electron and X-ray imaging facilities and expert science teams help you deliver cutting-edge research projects, empower you with international collaborations and help you to make the most of your valuable research time.

The EU-funded project Laserlab-Europe brings together 35 leading institutions in laser-based inter-disciplinary research from 18 countries. Laserlab-Europe, the Integrated Initiative of European Laser Research Infrastructures, understands itself as the central place in Europe where new developments in laser research take place in a flexible and co-ordinated fashion beyond the potential of a national scale. Laserlab-Europe offers transnational access to top-quality laser research facilities and to a large variety of inter-disciplinary research. Laserlab-Europe organises user training schools and training events on-site and online. Laserlab-Europe’s expert groups for topics of common interest boost collective action and are open to interested external scientists. Laserlab-Europe organises a series of online seminars and panel discussions proposed and organised by the community on specific topics, providing a platform for regular information exchange and knowledge sharing. Laserlab-Europe Talk: Lasers, related radiation sources and diagnostics at ENEA-Frascati for applications to material science, radiation hardness of materials and components. Laserlab-Europe Talk: Radiation sources based on laser plasma interaction and applications in materials science.

Since its establishment in 2011, CEITEC has quickly developed into a cutting-edge infrastructure for research which performs highly alongside the best institutes in Europe. Among the main priorities of CEITEC are the promotion of a motivating and dynamic international scientific environment, the provision of state-of-the-art research infrastructure, and the policy of open communication and equal opportunities. We are creating a centre of scientific excellence whose results contribute to the improvement of the quality of life and human health. From an ambitious dream on paper to a successful science center with an international reputation. Researchers are focusing on advanced materials and advanced nanotechnology and microtechnology here.

Following an application to the European Commission which was submitted by the UK on behalf of 14 other countries, the ESS was awarded European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) status on 30th November 2013.