Ongoing collaborations and projects - International and Europe
The European Commission (EC) finances individual, collaborative, and training projects of excellent scientific quality and high scientific and/or societal impact. Since 2010, SOLEIL has participated to 33 EU collaborative grants. SOLEIL is a member of the European strategic consortium of the Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Laser facilities (LEAPS – the League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources). SOLEIL also signs framework agreements with other International Research organisations. These agreements provide the basis for future scientific collaborations.
Materials Acceleration Platform; Battery value chain; Artificial intelligence, Machine learning
Start date: 01/09/2020 – End date: 31/08/2023
The Battery Interface Genome – Materials Acceleration Platform (BIG-MAP) project is part of the large-scale and long-term European research initiative BATTERY 2030+. This H2020 project develops AI-assisted methods to accelerate the discovery of new materials and battery concepts. It is based on creating new experimental methods and computational models that can go hand in hand towards an understanding of the complex reactions that take place within the battery. It seeks to understand which electrode materials and electrolytes can be best combined to get a battery to store as much energy as possible or to be able to charge quickly in different situations.
BIGMAP gathers 34 partners representing 15 countries. SOLEIL is one of the six partners in France. This project is coordinated by DTU.
CLEXM – Collaborative development and dissemination of workflows and techniques for using CORRELATIVE LIGHT, ELECTRON AND X-RAY MICROSCOPY to progress research into the understanding and treatment of diseases
The objective of CLEXM is to implement doctoral programmes by partnerships of organisations as well as to train highly skilled doctoral candidates, stimulate their creativity, enhance their innovation capacities and boost their employability in the long-term. CLEXM addresses an urgent need for collaborations in the field of correlative multimodal imaging. It will gather and integrate information from complementary imaging modalities to create a more complete view of biomedical processes of disease and drug therapy research.
CLEXM is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks Action (MSCA-DN), funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe. SOLEIL is one of partners of the project.
Destiny – Doctorate programme on Emerging battery Storage Technologies INspiring Young Scientist
European Doctorate Programme; Battery research; Emerging green technologies
Start date: 01/10/2020 – End date: 30/09/2025
DESTINY is a European Doctorate Programme that will create a paradigm change in Battery Research, in line with the new European context around Energy Storage, especially Battery 2030+. This 5-year H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Project is training 50 PhD Researchers. DESTINY is coordinated by CNRS.
SOLEIL is one of the entities hosting and co-funding PhD researchers.
I.FAST – Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Technology
I.FAST aims to enhance innovation in the particle accelerator community, mapping out and facilitating the development of breakthrough technologies common to multiple accelerator platforms. The project involves 49 partners, including 17 companies as co-innovation partners, to explore new alternative accelerator concepts and advanced prototyping of key technologies. These include, among others, new accelerator designs and concepts, advanced superconducting technologies for magnets and cavities, techniques to increase brightness of synchrotron light sources, strategies and technology to improve energy efficiency, and new societal applications of accelerators.
SOLEIL is a partner of this project, which is coordinated by CERN and funded under the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
IMPRESS - Interoperable electron Microscopy Platform for advanced RESearch and Services
Advanced transmission electron microscopy; Correlative, multi-modal/multi-scale characterisation; Analytical research infrastructures; Instrumentation and methodology co-development; Interoperability
Start date: 01/02/2023 – End date: 31/01/2027
Impress is a cutting-edge Horizon Europe science initiative aimed at transforming the field of transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Bringing together 19 partners from 11 European countries, Impress will develop a new generation of instrumentation that is flexible and adaptable. The core of the project is the development of a standardized cartridge-based interoperable platform for TEM. Based on open standards, interfaces, data formats and interchangeable components, the platform will allow for customized, interoperable arrangements.
SOLEIL is one of the partners of the IMPRESS project that is coordinated by the CNR.
iNext Discovery – Infrastructure for transnational access and discovery in structural biology
Structural biology; NMR; EM; Crystallography; Protein; Translational research; Drug discovery; Health; Food; Biotechnology; User access
Start date: 01/02/2020 – End date: 31/01/2024
The iNEXT-Discovery consortium aims to facilitate the generation of knowledge for the development of new drugs, advanced vaccines, novel biomaterials, engineered enzymes for food production, efficient biofuels, and other benefits. iNEXT-Discovery does that by enabling leading European facilities to offer advanced technological instrumentation and expertise to all European scientists, allowing them to perform high-end structural biology research with state-of-the-art equipment that is often unavailable in their home countries.
SOLEIL is one of 23 partners from 14 countries offering access to European users. This H2020 project is coordinated by the NKI.
IPERION HS – Integrating Platforms for the European Research Infrastructure ON Heritage Science
Heritage science; Research infrastructure; User access
Start date: 01/04/2020 – End date: 30/09/2023
Promoting heritage science is the goal of the EU-funded IPERION HS project. It established an Integrating Activity for a distributed pan-European research infrastructure, opening key national research facilities of recognised excellence in heritage science. The project is a further step towards a unified scientific approach to the most advanced European instruments for the analysis, interpretation, preservation, documentation and management of heritage objects. With 67 partners from 23 countries, 52 access providers and more than 180 services, IPERION HS core activity will offer cross-border access to an impressively wide range of high-level scientific instruments, methodologies, data and tools for advancing knowledge and innovation in the study and preservation of heritage. The project is coordinated by the CNR.
SOLEIL is one of the project’s third parties offering access to European users.
LEAPS – League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources
LEAPS – the League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources – is a strategic consortium initiated by the Directors of the Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Laser user facilities in Europe. Its primary goal to ensure and promote the quality and impact of fundamental, applied, and industrial research carried out at each facility to the greater benefit of European science and society.
SOLEIL is one of the members of the LEAPS strategic consortium.
LEAPS-INNOV – LEAPS pilot to foster open innovation for accelerator-based light sources in Europe
Research infrastructures; Accelerator-based light sources; Synchrotron; Free electron laser; LEAPS; Open innovation; Pilot action; Industry; Co-creation; Technology transfer; Knowledge transfer; PCP
Start date: 01/04/2021 – End date: 31/03/2025
The LEAPS-INNOV pilot project focusses on the implementation of new strategies and activities for long-term partnerships between industry and the European light sources, synchrotrons, and free-electron lasers, with their tens of thousands of users. LEAPS-INNOV aims at kick-starting the implementation of the LEAPS Technology Roadmap and, at the same time, at fostering a partnership with European industry through open innovation. It will offer joint technological developments and advanced research capabilities with LEAPS members for industry as collaborator, supplier, and user.
SOLEIL is a partner of this H2020 project, which is coordinated by DESY and gathers 22 partners representing 10 countries.
NEP – Nanoscience Foundries and Fine Analysis (NFFA) - Europe|PILOT
Nanoscience; User access; Multi-technical and multi-disciplinary research; FAIR data; Interoperability
Start date: 01/03/2021 – End date: 28/02/2026
The NFFA-Europe PILOT project is a distributed research infrastructure that integrates nanofoundries (synthesis and manipulation of nanostructures) with fine analysis available at European large-scale facilities, creating a unique offer for the nanosciences and nanomaterials community.
This H2020 project is coordinated by the Istituto officina dei materiali of the National Research Council (Cnr-Iom). The beneficiaries include academic laboratories and SMEs from nine Member States of the European Union and from Switzerland. Third parties also introduce new specialized services in the offer of Transnational Access. SOLEIL is a third party in this consortium.
PANORAMA – EuroPean trAining NetwOrk on Rare eArth elements environMental trAnsfer: from rock to human
European Doctorate Programme; Rare Earth Elements (REE); Emerging pollutant; Experimentation; Bioassay; modelling; Transport; Speciation; Bioavailability; Reactivity
Start date: 01/06/2020 – End date: 31/05/2024
The PANORAMA project aims to consider the environmental impact of REE in its entirety. (Geo)chemists, (hydro)geologists and (eco)toxicologists, gathered within a consortium of 14 academic partners and 4 non-academic partners, will enable 15 PhD students to develop skillsets in basic and cross-cutting research. PANORAMA training shall enable them to obtain secure jobs in the academic, industrial, commercial, or political sectors, all within a high-level European intersectoral collaborative framework.
SOLEIL is a partner of this project, which is coordinated by Université de Rennes and funded under the EU Horizon 2020 MSCA programme.
Remade@ARI – Recyclable materials development at analytical research infrastructures
Research Infrastructures; Circular Economy; Sustainability challenge; Materials analysis; Trans-national access; Ultra-high-resolution materials analysis; User access
Start date: 01/09/2022 – End date: 31/08/2026
In ReMade@ARI, the most significant European analytical research infrastructures join forces to pioneer a support hub for materials research facilitating a step change to the Circular Economy. ReMade@ARI offers coordinated access to more than 50 European analytical research infrastructures, comprising most of the facilities that constitute the Analytical Research Infrastructures in Europe (ARIE) network. ReMade@ARI offers comprehensive services suiting any research focusing on the development of new materials for the Circular Economy in the key areas highlighted in the CEAP and plays an important role in the preparation of the common technology roadmap for circular industries. The project is coordinated by HZDR.
SOLEIL is one of the project partners offering access to European users.
RIANA - Research Infrastructure Access in NAnoscience & nanotechnology
Research Infrastructure Access; Nanoscience; Nanotechnology
Start date: 01/03/2024 – End date: 29/02/2028.
The RIANA project provides the user community with a unique platform of 69 infrastructures from 22 European countries, including synchrotron, electron microscopy, laser, ion beam, neutron, clean room, and soft matter research infrastructures as well as high performance computing. It offers to offer access to Europe’s leading facilities in nanoscience and nanotechnology that are at the heart of the development of new materials for prosperity and sustainability. Beyond standard user access to single facilities, RIANA offers a single-point access and a particularly strong user support by a network of junior scientists.
SOLEIL is one of the partners offering access to its infrastructure. The project is funded in the framework of the Horizon Europe programme and it is coordinated by DESY.
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The European Commission (EC) finances individual, collaborative, and training projects of excellent scientific quality and high scientific and/or societal impact. Since 2010, SOLEIL has participated to 33 EU collaborative grants. SOLEIL is a member of the European strategic consortium of the Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Laser facilities (LEAPS – the League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources). SOLEIL also signs framework agreements with other International Research organisations. These agreements provide the basis for future scientific collaborations.