NEPHEWS

The EC support program NEPHEWS will deliver access to the world-class collective of Europe’s premiere open advanced neutron (N), synchrotron (SR) and free-electron laser (FEL) complementary research infrastructures (RI), to promote curiosity driven excellence in research.

In NEPHEWS the RI institute in a novel approach joins with their 40k+ user base of scientists through Users Organisations to provide a user-driven access program targeting new and non-expert communities, with a focus on widening countries, Ukraine and Africa, as a priority. The bottom-up User-to-User-oriented approach aims to build an integrated European RI landscape involving LEAPS and LENS consortia and their European scientific user communities.

At PSI the beamlines at SINQ participate in the program. 

PSI is partner within the NEPHEWS Twinning Programme. The main goal of twinning is the transfer of knowledge necessary to function in the environment of RI, including organizational and technical skills, between a new user and an experienced research group.

In a NEPHEWS Twinning Programme experienced user groups volunteer to host “novice users” (NU) during their experiments, while similar scientific interests guarantee that the new users can gain “tailor-made” first-hand experience. This will facilitate the development of their own scientific programme at a NEPHEWS facilities and the submission of their own subsequent scientific proposals. In the best case a twinning campaign is the starting point of a long-term collaboration.

Both sides might benefit – the less experienced user through learning about RI techniques, the more experienced group from gaining extra help with an experiment or extra scientific input from a group working in similar areas.

Further detailed information about eligibility criteria, the application and evaluation process as well as about the financial support can be obtained on the project's website directly.