The Research and Technology Infrastructures (RTI) Summit 2025 took place from 22 to 23 October in Copenhagen, bringing together Europe’s leading voices in science, innovation, and policy. Hosted under the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the event aimed to shape a shared European strategy for RTIs and explore how these infrastructures can drive scientific discovery, industrial competitiveness, and societal progress.  As Europe’s first project to design

Dr Paul Crump, Head of the High-Power Diode Lasers Lab at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) in Berlin, has been elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Photonics Society. He will begin his three-year term in 2026, contributing to the Society's strategic direction and promoting international collaboration within the global photonics community that advance photonics research and applications worldwide. Dr Paul Crump At FBH, Dr Crump leads a research team focused on devel

The 2025 General Meeting of the EuPRAXIA Preparatory Phase (EuPRAXIA-PP) project, which took place from Wednesday 29-Friday 31 October, has drawn to a close. The three-day meeting was held at the project’s recently announced laser-driven accelerator site, ELI, specifically the ELI Beamlines  facility, in Dolní Břežany, just outside Prague. This annual gathering of the consortium provided a valuable opportunity to review project progress. This year, particular attention was pu

Our virtual seminar series has now resumed following a pause for summer.  On Friday 3 rd  October, we heard from Dr Riccardo Pompili who spoke about beam manipulations with plasma accelerators.  You can catch up on his seminar here . The next seminar in the series will take place on Friday 7 th  November at 11am UK time .  Dr Marie Labat of Synchrotron Soleil will present her seminar, COXINEL: towards compact free electron lasers? About the talk Free electron lasers (FELs) ar

The largest-ever European edition of the International Beam Instrumentation Conference (IBIC 2025) was hosted at the University of Liverpool from the 7 th -10 th  September 2025. This 14 th  edition of the conference brought together more than 300 world-leading experts to discuss developments in and share knowledge on beam instrumentation. Group photograph of the delegates at IBIC 2025 in Liverpool. Over the week, delegates took part in keynote and invited talks, contributed

The "Photonics, Space, Lasers: Vision 2040" conference was held at the Czech Pavilion during EXPO 2025 in Osaka, Japan, from September 9–11, 2025. ELI beamlines, the recently elected laser-driven site of the EuPRAXIA project, participated in this event, achieving a major milestone in international scientific cooperation, through signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Scientific and Technological Collaboration with the Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE) at Osaka Univ