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To celebrate International Women’s Day, we asked our female colleagues at Europe’s Neutron Scattering facilities to share their insights & advice for women in STEM.

Over two days of informative and productive meetings, representatives from LENS and the wider neutron scattering community met online to discuss current and future goals of the initiative, in the context of the broader European research landscape.

Given the current shortage of neutrons in Europe, the Budapest Neutron Centre is offering to accommodate experiments that have been allocated beam time as part of any LENS facility user program, but have not yet been scheduled for any reason, if – at least part of – the experiments are technically feasible to accomplish at BNC­.

The ESFRI Roadmap for Research Infrastructures in Europe has influenced European and national strategies, policies and funding since the first edition was launched in 2006. The latest roadmap, published on 7 December 2021, recognises the important role of the LENS Initiative in bringing together European analytical facilities to “identify synergies and opportunities for closer collaboration” and “improve the cooperation of various communities and enhance user facilities”.

The first call for applicants for the GNeuS fellowship programme is open from 1 November 2021 until 15 January 2022.

In the context of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), LENS has compiled a variety of resources demonstrating how neutron scattering methods are being applied in energy, materials, and environment research, to help reduce our impact on the global climate.

On 27 October 2021, Professor Robert McGreevy participated in the New ERA Conference as part of a session on the sustainable funding of European Research Infrastructures.

“Through the concerted effort of its members, and by developing synergies with the wider analytical research infrastructure landscape, LENS aims to achieve optimal exploitation of European neutron facilities to the benefit of the international scientific community.”

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On the 15th of September 2021, the governments of France, Germany and the United Kingdom signed a protocol that will extend their support of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) for another ten-year period from 2024 to 2033.

From 15 – 19 February 2021, over 80 participants attended the online LENS Machine Learning School. The school, which was targeted towards neutron and muon facilities staff, offered a gateway for beginner and intermediate coders to get into machine learning, providing an overview of ​modern and traditional machine learning techniques alongside neutron or​​​ muon based applications.