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About LEAPS

The League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources is the network of all 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 LEAPS facilities to the greater benefit of European science, innovation, and society.

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Members

LEAPS Members are sixteen organisations operating nineteen accelerator-based photon facilities, i.e. high-brilliance synchrotron radiation and free electron lasers.
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News

Latest updates on LEAPS and its members

  • LEAPS Position on European Research Area Act

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    Uploaded: 10 Apr 2026

  • LEAPS Position Paper on the European Advanced Materials Act (AMA)

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    Uploaded: 10 Apr 2026

  • LEAPS Technology Roadmap 2025

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    Uploaded: 10 Sep 2025

  • LEAPS Brochure “World-class research for our daily lives”/ Investigación de primer nivel para nuestro día a día (Spanish version)

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    Uploaded: 03 Sep 2025

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