25th CERIC Call for Proposals now open

CERIC - Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium is calling for proposals for coordinated access to more than 60 instruments and support laboratories for research in all fields of materials, biomaterials and nanotechnology.

There will be two deadlines:

• September 1st 2026 at 17:00 CEST to have a pre-evaluation and the possibility to improve your proposal
• September 30th 2026 at 17:00 CEST final submission, recommended only for users that are expert in all the techniques requested.

The Call is open to researchers from all over the world. In addition to the possibility to access several instruments through a single application, the Call offers support for mobility.

To apply, use the link “Submit a new CERIC proposal” in the Virtual Unified Office – 

What’s new in this call

Four nuclear laboratories of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) have just been added to the CERIC portfolio, allowing studies of neutron-induced reactions, irradiations in well-characterised neutron and gamma fields and accurate measurements of radioactivity for science and technology applications.

MONNET Accelerator-based fast-neutron source

GELINA Neutron Time-of-Flight Facility

HADES Underground laboratory for ultra-low level gamma-ray spectrometry

RADMET Radionuclide Metrology laboratories

About CERIC

CERIC is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) integrating and providing open access to some of the most advanced analytical facilities in Europe to help science and industry advance in all fields of materials, biomaterials and nanotechnology, with a focus on energy materials and life sciences.

With a single entry point to some of the leading national research infrastructures in 8 European countries, it enables the delivery of innovative solutions to societal challenges in the fields of energy, health, food, cultural heritage and more.

The Italian facility (RE: Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste) covers a wide range of experimental techniques and scientific fields, including photoemission, spectromicroscopy, crystallography, dichroic absorption spectroscopy, x-ray imaging etc.

On 16 July, the General Assembly of CERIC-ERIC appointed Dr Salvatore La Rosa as its Chair. Dr La Rosa is a physicist and Director of the Research and Innovation Division at Area Science Park in Trieste.

He has been a first rank researcher at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy’s representing entity in CERIC-ERIC, and has worked on Italian and European research policy at the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) and as a Seconded National Expert at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation.