CALIPSOplus brought together all major synchrotrons and FELs in Europe and in the Middle East to provide easy access, free-of-charge, to the facilities operated by them. During the running time of the project, around 1.5 million hours of access were provided.
A strong inclusion program including visits at universities in newer EU member states and a twinning program offering to acquire hands-on experience by joining an experienced user group was able removed barriers preventing the exploitation of the unique European RI landscape. Several successful beamtime applications by earlier twinning guests evidenced the success of this program.
A particular focus was on industry and SMEs. Activities covered the whole range from reaching out to companies from the local ecosystem around the facilities to prominently advertising the unique service and support program for industry users offered by the accelerator-based light sources at important fairs. A trans-national access program tailor-made to SMEs, TamaTA, was pioneered in CALIPSOplus and turned into a big success, attracting 33 SMEs.
An “Inno Mall”, an electronic platform, was set-up to foster exchange between industry and light sources. Prospectively, this platform will constitute the core of one of the three pillars of Digital LEAPS, the prominent program for digital transformation set up by LEAPS (
https://leaps-initiative.eu/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)).
Considering the large data volumes generated in experiments at the light sources, a demonstrator for a remote data analysis tool, avoiding the need to transfer data between sites, was developed and successfully deployed, precisely when the pandemic started. A universal registration system is realised by the umbrellaID that even attracted attention by the European Open Science Cloud.
A successfully accomplished round-robin metrology exercise involving the ultra-precise mirrors in use at the latest X-ray FELs resulted in the design of two calibration mirrors serving as reference for future calibrations. This is of particular importance for European manufacturers to of which were directly involved in the exercise.
