NEPHEWS

NEPHEWS in Detail The project 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 jointly 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, 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. Mission NEPHEWS is unique in many aspects: It is a user driven project which brings together the two “photon” and “neutron” European users organisations of the “PaN” research infrastructure facilities ESUO and ENSA. It brings together the LEAPS and LENS RI in a broad combined access programme for excellent curiosity driven science for the first time. It seeks to broadens the use of the PaN RI opening these to new users, new and less well supported user communities and will do so through specific outreach and twinning opportunities for users new to techniques as well as early stage researchers. It seeks to make progress towards policy impact to advocate for nationally funded programs to help scientists access extra-national open RI facilities in other countries, when funding of the users travel and subsistence is an issue.