Welcome to LEAPS
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 is to actively and constructively 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.
News
4th LEAPS Plenary Meeting
The 4th LEAPS Plenary Meeting offered an exciting agenda to share the latest of the LEAPS collaboration. The meeting focused on the new LEAPS strategy and LEAPS contribution to the new European Research Area, aspects which were discussed with participants from the EC as well as partner projects like ExPaNDS and PaNoSC. An update was given on LEAPS…
News from ESUO
16th ESUO General Assembly The 16th ESUO General Assembly – a hybrid in-person and online meeting – occurred on October 18th-19th of 2021, physically and virtually hosted by the DESY (www.desy.de) and European XFEL (www.xfel.eu) facilities. The successful meeting was made possible thanks to the support of the local DESY and European XFEL teams and…
PSI is the new Chair of LEAPS
As of January 1st 2022, LEAPS will have a new chair: former vice-chair Leonid (Lenny) Rivkin, Deputy Director of the Paul Scherrer Institut (CH). The symbolic LEAPS baton was handed over to him by the outgoing chair Caterina Biscari, Director of ALBA, today in Barcelona, where many LEAPS directors gathered for the last General Assembly…