More than 100 participants gathered on a hybrid meeting at DESY on 14-15 March to officially kick-off the new EU project RIANA. RIANA (standing for Research Infrastructure Access in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology) has officially been launched on 01 March to offer access to Europe’s leading facilities in nanoscience and nanotechnology that are at the heart of the development of new materials for prosperity and sustainability.

The thirteenth call for proposals at the SOLARIS Centre ended on April 3. Once again, the Centre received a record number of applications. Scientific teams from all over the world submitted 171 applications.

Representatives of seven of Poland's leading science popularization centers were guests of SOLARIS at a meeting inaugurating popularization cooperation. The EC1 Science and Technology Center in Lódź, the Leonardo da Vinci Science Center, the “Młyn Wiedzy” Modernity Center in Toruń, Krakow's Cogiteon, the Experyment Science Center in Gdynia and the "Kortosfera" Center were some of the units that joined the event.

For two days (7-8 March 2024), the SOLARIS Centre was transformed into the capital of the world of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), thanks to outstanding specialists who accepted an invitation from the Krakow synchrotron. The event was held in a hybrid mode and gathered about 300 participants who had the opportunity to participate in the symposium via the Zoom platform.

SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre is pleased to announce the free „Infrared Nanoscopy Workshop on Biological and Polymer Nanomaterials”, which will be organized together with the Neaspec company on 24th-26th of April 2024 in our Centre. The main topic of the workshop is related to the capabilities of Infrared nanospectroscopy (s-SNOM, nano-FTIR, AFM-IR) in studies on nanometric structures, including biological and polymeric nanomaterials.