In May 2016, the SOLARIS team, supported by experts from the AGH University of Science and Technology, the Jagiellonian University and the Prevac company, took the first photoemission spectra on UARPES beamline.

In May 2016, the first light from the variably polarizing undulator (APPLE II type) installed on the UARPES beamline has been observed at the sample position, in the experimental chamber.

On 21 September 2015, the opening ceremony of the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Center took place in the experimental hall of the Kraków synchrotron.

In February 2016, components of the third beamline were delivered to the SOLARIS synchrotron. The beamline previously operated at the MaxLab research centre in Lund (Sweden). It was dismantled and transported to Kraków by SOLARIS team members and representatives of several other Polish research centres.

In December 2015, the SOLARIS Centre team finished the installation of the PEEM/XAS beamline second end-station.