The kick-off meeting of project RIANA – Research Infrastructure Access in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology – took place on 14 and 15 March at DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
The main goal of the RIANA project is to facilitate access to Europe’s leading facilities in nanoscience and nanotechnology. These facilities play a critical role in the development of new materials aimed at fostering prosperity and sustainability. By providing a platform comprising 69 infrastructures across 22 European countries, including a wide range of research tools such as synchrotron, electron microscopy, laser, ion beam, neutron, clean room, soft matter research infrastructures, and high-performance computing resources, RIANA aims to streamline access for researchers. Furthermore, the project aims to offer robust user support through a network of junior scientists, ensuring that users receive comprehensive assistance throughout their research pursuits. Ultimately, the overarching goal of RIANA is to advance scientific exploration and drive innovations in nanoscience and nanotechnology for the betterment of society.
“The goal is to provide interdisciplinary access to the large and diverse set of outstanding instruments available in RIANA for research and development in nanoscience and nanotechnology. A team of junior scientists, in close contact with experienced senior scientists, will provide users with a comprehensive service from assistance in writing proposals to hands-on experiment support and data analysis,” – Michael Stuckelberger (DESY), scientific coordinator of the RIANA project.
RIANA will engage with academic and industrial users via a rolling call system and promote experiments that combine different facilities and techniques. This combination of scientific tools will enable new approaches and an expansion of the user community, paving the way for accelerated innovation based on nanomaterials.
INESC MN and Instituto Superior Técnico LATR (Laboratory of Accelerators and Radiation Technologies) are a part of EUROnanoLABS and RADIATE network, correspondingly, which are two of the European networks of the consortium that will offer access to research infrastructures.
Call for proposals will open soon 👉 here
