EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL RESEARCH FACILITIES

The European association of national Research Facilities laboratories (ERF) represents international-level multidisciplinary Research Infrastructures funded by national sources but offering open and free access and serving every year over 20,000 academic and industrial users from Europe and all over the world. ERF is open to all Research Infrastructures which develop this “ERA open access” policy, hosting researchers from any Country in the world, selected solely on their quality by international peer review. These Research Infrastructures play a strong strategic role to make the European Research and Innovation Area attractive and competitive (...)

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Horizon 2020: the ERF is calling for an increase of the EU budget for R&D
9 November 2012, by Webmaster
Horizon 2020: the ERF is calling for an increase of the EU budget for R&D. The interview of Carlo Rizzuto, Chairman of the ERF, has been reported in Science.Business (...)
ERF Workshop in Hamburg (31 May / 1^st June)
27 June 2012, by Webmaster
The ERF Workshop in Hamburg (31 May-1st June) was a real success; about 120 participants attended; all the relevant information are on the desy website. Please download the preliminary (...)
Workshop on Maintenance and Reliability
6 January 2012, by Webmaster
The Synchrotron SOLEIL organized a workshop dedicated to the maintenance and the reliability of the research facilities on 9 to 10 November at Saint-Aubin.
Science Europe ERA Contribution
9 December 2011, by Webmaster
The ERF has contributed to the Science Europe ERA Contribution
ERF position paper on Horizon 2020
2 December 2011, by Webmaster
The ERF members propose that available and new EU funding is better focused towards the ERA open access operation, supporting excellence in the best facilities for best science and their returns (...)
Energy Management for Large Scale Research Infrastructures
14 October 2011, by Webmaster
The 3rd ERF seminar have been organized jointly with the ESS and the CERN. It took place on the 14-15 Oct. 2011 at ESS-Lund (Sweden) and has been devoted to the energy challenges in modern (...)