• LEAPS-INNOV, premier projet européen porté par le consortium SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL LEAPS (League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources) qui HIGHLIGHTS 2020 coordonne synchrotrons et lasers à électrons libres. LEAPS-INNOV vise à développer des technologies de pointe pour la prochaine Captions/Légendes génération de synchrotrons en Europe et à renforcer les compétences d’acteurs industriels européens. 5 https://leaps-initiative.eu/ Photo taken at the LEAPS plenary meeting in 2019 • NEP (NFFA European Pilot) fait suite au projet NFFA (Nanosciences Photo prise lors de la réunion plénière Foundries and Fine Analysis) dans le domaine de l’étude des de LEAPS en 2019. matériaux à l’échelle nanométrique. https://www.nffa.eu/ 6 • I-FAST (Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Marketing by Attocube of a technology developed and patented Technology) prolonge le projet ARIES. Il implique les groupes Physique by SOLEIL des accélérateurs et Ultravide de SOLEIL. (https://www.attocube.com/ https://ifast-project.eu/ en/products/nanopositioners/ customized-nanopositioning- solutions/rotation-error- compensation). Commercialisation par la société STRONG AND LASTING RELATIONSHIPS attocube d’une technologie développée et brevetée par SOLEIL WITH INDUSTRIES (https://www.attocube.com/en/ DES RELATIONS FORTES ET DURABLES products/nanopositioners/customized- nanopositioning-solutions/rotation-error- AVEC L’INDUSTRIE compensation). In 2019 the growth in sales of synchrotron services was exceptional (+35%). Despite the seven weeks of synchrotron experiments cancelled between mid-March and the end of May 2020, the final results for the year 2020 nevertheless represent the second-best year of synchrotron sales for SOLEIL. Besides, in June 2020, SOLEIL carried out a new technology transfer led by its teams, by granting an exclusive licence to its patents and know-how in the field of 3D characterisation of rotations at the nanometer scale to the German SME Attocube. Finally, an in-depth analysis of the inventions created in the various groups involved in the SOLEIL upgrade project will lead to the filing of several patents. 6 13