History

• Exclusive focus on transnational access consortia in Horizon Europe
• Extended scope of access offer through multi-disciplinary approach
• 29 leading European laser installations in15 countries, including 7 widening countries

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• A structured research landscape to meet global challenges
• Increased geographical coverage, including Croatia and Switzerland
• emphasis on areas with high industrial and social impact, such as medicine, biology, environment and ecology
• 35 individual laser infrastructures from 18 countries, participants from 22 European countries incl. associate partners

• international not-for-profit association under Belgian law
• founded in 2018
• 7 leading laser research infrastructures in 22 European countries

• Extending the access offer towards Free Electron Lasers (FEL)
• Promoting life science and industrial applications
• 33 individual laser infrastructures from 16 countries, participants from 20 European countries incl. associate partners

• Internal consolidation
• Supporting the Extreme Light Infrastructures (ELI)
• Training the European human resources in laser science
• 29 individual laser infrastructures from 16 countries

• “Extending the European dimension”
• by reaching out to new member states and new scientific communities
• growing from 17 to 27 individual laser infrastructures from 16 countries, participants from 19 European countries incl. associate partners

• First vision of a unified “European Distributed Laser Infrastructure”
• 17 individual laser infrastructures from 9 countries

• EC-supported Network of high energy and analytical laser facilities (0.5 M€ for 4 years)
• Joint networking activities
• In parallel, individual contracts with the EC for transnational access

Increasing number of “Large Scale Facilities”, each one with its own independent contract with the EC for transnational access. Joint activities:

• LIMANS Network of “analytical Large Scale Facilities”
• High Energy Laser group
• Several EC projects for joint RTD, such as SHARP, FIRE, …