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The LEAPS-INNOV Annual Meeting 2023 will take place face to face from 28 to 30 March 2023 (lunch to lunch) at EuXFEL & DESY in Hamburg, Germany. The meeting will include work package sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday, for the individual work in the smaller groups, as well as plenary sessions with all participants on Wednesday and Thursday.

Please find more information and a draft agenda on the indico page (https://indico.desy.de/event/37196/) and enclosed to this email.

The registration for the meeting is now open and we would like to kindly ask you to register your participation (on-site or remote) via the registration form on the indico page. The registration will close on 1 March 2023.

If you have any questions regarding the Annual Meeting, please feel free to contact: elena.hengstmann@desy.de

As of January 2023, current LEAPS Vice Chair Jean Daillant, Director of SOLEIL in France, will take over the role of LEAPS Chair. The symbolic LEAPS baton was handed over to him by the outgoing Chair Leonid Rivkin from PSI, Switzerland on October 28 during the LEAPS General Assembly, collocated with the LEAPS 5th Plenary Meeting, at PSI in Switzerland (see photos below).

Leonid Rivkin, reflecting on his year of chairmanship said he was very proud of what LEAPS achieved in 2022 in spite of the many challenges and crisis faced by all our organizations across Europe.

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The LEAPS General Assembly, in its meeting at the Paul Scherrer Institute on October 28, 2022, elected Britta Redlich, Director of the FELIX Laboratory, Radboud University, Netherlands, as the new LEAPS Vice Chair starting from January 1^st 2023.

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