By definition, workshop means "a meeting at which a group of people engage in intensive discussion and activity on a particular subject or project."
More than 30 beamline- users/scientists and directors from both Swiss and Norwegian Institutes and synchrotron facilities (SLS, ESFR, PSI, EPFL, NTNU, UiB, UiO, IFE etc..) met to discuss the future perspectives of the long-lasting and successfull SNBL collaboration.
Focused and intensive 2-days workshop where all the participants, fully committed, could propose their ideas, show their scientific breaktroughs accomplished within SNBL and together build up a new roadmap.
Key-words of this meeting were:
- Development: introduce advancements and improvements for more competetive infrastructures.
- Collaboration: break down the barriers of competition and embrace new research topics and applications while strenghtening the SNBL collaboration.
- Complementarity: of techniques and expertise to improve and advance within a highly competetive European synchrotron community.
- Communicaton: intensify the exchange of scientific knowledge and interests to support the SNBL members.
Inspiring and meaningful headlines of couple of talks help to identify the "take home" messages:
- "Advantages of using SNBL/ESRF Environmental XAS beamline features: flexible goniometry, on-site (on-the-fly) analysis, high quality PDF-studies, etc.." (Andreas Voegelin, Eawag).
- "SNBL provides an essential resource for Swiss catalysis research", "The importance of SNBL to the Swiss catalysis community cannot be underestimated" (Mark Newton, ETH Zurich).
Enthusiastic for the future developments, confident in the success of SNBL and aware of the numerous challenges, the organizing committee is looking forward to the next meeting!
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