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LEAPS QT Conference: register until Feb. 11th, 2022

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The LEAPS Conference on Quantum Technology (15-21 May 2022, Elba) is coming up! Registrations are now open until February 11th, 2022.

To register, visit the dedicated event page.

This is the first LEAPS topical Conference aiming to bring together the latest achievements from the synchrotron radiation user community with those from source development and instrumentation. The focus of the first LEAPS Conference will be dedicated to the opportunities emerging from the Quantum Technologies R&D. This conference shall showcase where today and future synchrotron radiation contributes to the advancements of Quantum Technologies.

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4th LEAPS Plenary Meeting

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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 pilot project LEAPS-INNOV as well as on several other proposals, which are in the pipeline. A session was dedicated to DIGITAL LEAPS , triggered by the wish to increasing the resilience to times of crisis. “This program is a hotbed of developments towards greener and more efficient environments for our staff, users and industrial partners”, explains Caterina Biscari, Chair of LEAPS.

LEAPS IDEA, the taskforce dedicated to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Anti-discrimination was also present with the newly published Toolbox of Best Practices of the various LEAPS member facilities. From now on, the IDEA topics will have a dedicated moment within the future LEAPS Plenary Meetings. The series of seminars started with a talk on the “Science of Inclusion”  by expert S. Estradé.

This three-day meeting demonstrated once again how strong, collaborative and productive the LEAPS team is, despite the recent challenges. “Sharing experiences and best practices, building-up solutions, learning from difficulties, opening to other communities, has made our links stronger” concluded Biscari.

LEAPS and ARIE at the MC2021 Conference

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Caterina Biscari, Chair of LEAPS and Director of ALBA, participated today as a speaker at the Microscopy Conference 2021, where she presented the Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe during the workshop on Research Infrastructures for Electron Microscopy in Europe.

“The ARIE network is present in the MC2021 conference, highlighting the complementarity of all European Research Infrastructures in providing state-of-the-art instruments to the scientific, technological and industrial community for tackling the challenges our society is facing,” said Caterina Biscari.

A round table followed the five foreseen presentations with the participation of Giorgio Rossi (Trieste/IT), who spoke about the NFFA-Europe paradigm, Peter A. Van Aken (Stuttgart/DE), who presented the success story of ESTEEM, Rafal Edward Dunin-Borkowski (Jülich/DE) who gave an overview on the strategies of the e-DREAM initiative for European electromicroscopy and finally José Maria De Teresa (Zaragoza/ES) who spoke about lab sinergies. This roundtable discussion was facilitated by Nicolas Villacorta (Jülich/DE) and Vittorio Morandi (Bologna/IT).