Work package 1 aims for an efficient and effective management of the whole project, ensuring that the project deliverables are met in an integrated and timely fashion within the agreed budget. This comprises also the management of the implementation of work plan, the achievement of objectives, deliverables/milestones and facilitation of the dissemination of results. It aims further to enable coherence between work packages and ensure effective communication, and to ensure and monitor on-time delivery of scientific and financial reports & effective communication with the Commission.
Work package 2 aims to raise awareness of the innovation capacity of neutron methods and visibility of the science done there in current ILL Member countries as well as in potential future members, to secure and widen the ILL user communities in current member countries and raise awareness on neutrons methods assets in other countries and emerging communities. Furthermore, it aims to enhance the visibility in the press of science done at the ILL in as many member countries as possible. In the work package web-based communication platforms are developed to promote the overall benefit of being a member of the ILL and being able to use its infrastructure. Despite many efforts, the interactive platform that was planned to federate the user communities and promote exchange via social network has been downsized to a constant and reactive animation of the ILL accounts on Twitter and LinkedIn. Also, communication tools for enhanced use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and Open Access are developed.
The objectives of work package 3 were to provide the ILL scientific management with tools to monitor the scientific trends and impact of scientific work carried out at the ILL. The first step was to develop and set-up a semi-automatic matching between ILL publications and related experiments. The second part focused on the enlargement of this tool (designated as PUMA) to provide us precise and accurate results. New user communities can now be identified and possible new scientific member countries found. The statistics may also be used as a basis for various communication materials in WP2 and WP5.
In work package 4, the contractual and financial interaction as well as the service level agreements with the Associates and Scientific Members have been adapted and the business model of the ILL has been reviewed, including membership contributions and beam time allocation policy. It aims further at improving the services to be provided to industrial partners and to develop new, flexible access and/or funding mechanisms.
Work package 5 aims at providing enhanced support to users (especially to novice users) for academic users, to improve the local support at ILL for industrial users at least up to the level required by novice users and to introduce dedicated and tailor-made services to academia in order to foster industry usage via academia. A continuous internal survey is conducted on existing procedures for new users to identify needs and improve further the services. The tool developed in WP3 is used to monitor continuously the identified KPI. An annual activity report is established on the activities of the FILL2030 post-docs.
Work package 6 is supporting new users in existing or new communities in non-member countries by allocating beam time and access after a peer-review process.
With the actions in work package 7, the broadest possible communication of the project results (presentation of the project, web site, social media, and publications) is being ensured.
