Project description
Free transnational access to boost nanoscience
The use of shared research infrastructures in nanoscience and nanotechnology will be facilitated under the EU-funded NEP project. The project will provide free access to a wide portfolio of services to users and support excellence of science and technology while addressing complex nanoscience challenges. By expanding and consolidating the operation of an Interoperable Distributed Research Infrastructure for Nanoscience (IDRIN), the project will support research on materials and functional systems at the nanoscale and at the microscale. The model IDRIN fostered by NEP builds on the 4-year experience of transnational access provision by NFFA-Europe that delivered combined scientific services to over 1 000 European users.
Objective
NFFA-EUROPE PILOT (NEP) aims at expanding and consolidating the operation of a Interoperable Distributed Research Infrastructure for Nanoscience (IDRIN) supporting research on materials and functional systems at the nanoscale and at the microscale. NEP provides a unique overarching offer of experimental and theoretical facilities to be combined to suit user needs ranging from materials synthesis, growth, nanofabrication to nanocharacterization, microscopy and spectroscopies also with fine analysis methods at large scale X and neutron radiation sources, and to numerical simulation. The model IDRIN fostered by NEP builds on the four-year experience of transnational access provision of NFFA-Europe that delivered combined scientific services to over one thousand European users. NEP expands the catalogue of facilities with new offer of cleanroom services, high-end electron microscopy, unique 50-100 fs sources for optical and electron spectroscopies, Free Electron Laser beamlines and chemistry based mesoscale material science. An overarching metadata and data management tool (Metastore) will realize the interoperability of the NEP results and a unique open access archive of FAIR nanoscience data to merge with the EOSC. The multi-technique character of the NEP user proposals leads to advanced reproducibility of results, research goals and effectiveness in multi-disciplinary research for curiosity driven, mission-oriented and application-oriented projects by academic or industrial users. The transnational access is proposed in modalities that help coping with the post COVID-19 conditions of restricted user mobility: interactive remote access (IRA) will be available from the beginning in some TA facilities and will be further generalized through the Joint Activities along with innovative Virtual Access and pilots of FAIR-by-design data generation. The construction of the IDRIN will address the issues for Long Term Sustainability of the NEP infrastructure services.
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00185 Roma
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Participants (26)
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34149 Basovizza Trieste
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75015 PARIS 15
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75794 Paris
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91190 Saint Aubin
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28006 Madrid
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22607 Hamburg
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1015 Lausanne
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38000 Grenoble
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34142 TRIESTE
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70013 Irakleio
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52428 Julich
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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4715-330 Braga
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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76131 Karlsruhe
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22100 Lund
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34012 Trieste
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5232 Villigen Psi
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8010 Graz
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80333 Muenchen
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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20122 Milano
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5000 Nova Gorica
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50041 Calenzano Fi
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8000 Aarhus C
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