On April 1, the seventh call for proposals for beamtime at the Solaris synchrotron was completed. As many as 84 research teams from Poland and abroad, representing 31 scientific institutions, joined the competition. 48 proposals concerned the beamlines XAS, UARPES, PHELIX, DEMETER and 36 the electron cryo microscope.

On the 27th - 28th of April 2021, the Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society together with the Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Krakow and National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) in Warsaw will organize a workshop entitled: "XFELs for beginners".

Contract for the design, manufacture, and delivery of a modified VK1 vacuum chamber and the first M1 mirror for the SOLAIR beamline was recently signed. The contractor will be FMB Berlin.

A contract on delivery a hybrid monochromator for PolyX beamline was signed on 24th February 2021. The contractor is Cinel Scientific Instruments.

For the seventh time in our history, we are opening a call for proposals. We are happy to announce that for the first time the STXM (Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope) microscope will be available for external users.