Neutron scattering
8 April 1998
Minutes of the first meeting of the Concerted Action on Neutron Sources - The Neutron Beam Round Table
Copenhagen 26-27 February 1998

Participants:

Ch-H. de Novion, Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA/Saclay, France.
Rainer Michaelsen, , HMI-BENSC, Germany
Colin Carlile, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
W. G. Williams, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Robert McGreevy, Studsvik Neutron Research Laboratory, Sweden
Francis Tasset, Institut Laue-Langevin, France
Michael Prager, Institut für Festkörperforschung, Germany
Albert Furrer, Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, Switzerland
Lazlo Rosta, Budapest Neutron Center, BNC, Hungary
Fabrizio Barocchi, Universitá di Firenze, Italia
A. A. van Well, Interfacultair Reactor Instituut, the Netherlands
Juan Colmenero, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Joseph Zaccai, Institut de Biologie Structurale CEA-CNRS, France
Mike Johnson, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Gerald Badurek, Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Austria
Helmut Weber, Austron, Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Austria
Michael Steiner, HMI-BENSC, Germany
Kurt N. Clausen, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark

Agenda for Round-Table Meeting:

Time
Thursday – 26 February, 1998
12:00 -12:30 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Welcome and status of the Concerted Action programme (K N Clausen)
13:30 - 14:00 Co-ordination of activities – how to proceed
Communication by electronic means – WWW and e-mail??
14:00 - 18:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 18:30 Initiatives to be supported by the Round Table
Discussion of which activities should be supported and procedures for application for, selection of, administration of and reporting on activities
News from Austron (H. Weber)
News from PSI and Jülich (Facility managers)
20:00 - Dinner at hotel Plaza – Bernstorfsgade 4


Friday – 27 February, 1998
9:00 – 10:00 Proposal for ESS-Instrumentation (M. Steiner)
The mid term review of the TMR programmes (K N Clausen)
TMR and the 5th framework programme (K N Clausen)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 12.00 News from BNC (L. Rosta)
LSF activity reports
Orphee, BER2, ISIS Neutrons, ISIS - Muons, NFL, DR3 (Facility managers)
Networks – Status reports: XENNI (M Johnson)
12:00 - 12:30 Matters of Common Interest
Date and venue for next meeting
Special topics for next meeting
Other activities or networks to be included on the round table
Format of future meetings
12:30 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:45 Bus to Risø (35 km)
13:45 – 15:30 Tour of the facilities at Risø
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 Taxi to Copenhagen (Hotels or Airport) (arrival at the airport 16:45)


Initiatives receiving support during the first 6 month of 1998

Welcome and status of the Concerted Action programme:

Copy of Overheads:
WHY yet another committee???

It is contractually required by Brussels – TMR access to Large Scales Facilities programme – Brussels wants feedback on the operation of the access programmes, networking between facilities and spreading of information and progress obtained in the instrumentation networks.
The Round-Table – has a legal status and can receive funding from Brussels
The Round-Table – networks of facilities with user representatives – is one of the ways in which Brussels envisages that future funding could be channelled. (we are part of a small scale experiment).


The main objective is to discuss how we can provide the best possible environment and the optimal facilities for the users of neutron and muon beams in Europe.
The actual science – that is the main objective to all of us – will not be the focus of these meetings.

Thank you all for coming – I do hope that you will also participate in future meetings – I would not have taken on the role as co-ordinator if I had not found these meetings useful.


Concerted Action on neutron sources:
Period 1/10 1997 - 30/9 2000

The objectives of the Concerted action are:

Managing the Round-Table: Co-ordinate activities, follow the progress of TMR access programmes, make decisions on which activities should receive support from the Concerted Action, follow the progress of these activities etc.
Mapping studies: The Round-Table will keep a watching brief on the scientific need for access to neutron sources through workshops on new developments, which might change the potential and the need for access to neutron sources.
Joint activities: Work towards better co-ordination and collaboration on instrument development.
Other activities: In collaboration with ENSA to take initiatives to increase the knowledge about the potential of and the availability of facilities for neutron scattering to areas of science and regions in Europe, which are not adequately familiar with these opportunities




Funding will be sitting on an ECU account at Risø, and different activities will be reimbursed in ECU.
Overheads will be used for expenses such as secretarial assistance, mail …. and any expense that is necessary but not directly chargeable to the other cost items.

Project co-ordinator (and legally responsible to Brussels) Risø
Participants on the Round-Table
European Neutron Facilities with a TMR-Access contract

Prof. K.N. Clausen DR3, Risø
Prof. Ch-H. de Novion, LLB, CEA/Saclay, France.
Dr. Rainer Michaelsen, , HMI-BENSC, Berlin, Germany.
Dr. Colin Carlile, ISIS Neutrons, UK.
Dr. W. G. Williams, ISIS Muons, UK
Dr. Robert McGreevy, Studsvik, Sweden.
European Neutron Facilities without a TMR-Access contract

Dr. Francis Tasset, Institut Laue-Langevin, France
Prof. Dieter Richter, Jülich, Germany
Prof. Albert Furrer, PSI, Switzerland
Dr. Lazlo Rosta, Budapest Neutron Center, Hungary
User representatives / ENSA

Prof. Albert Furrer, PSI, Switzerland
Prof. Fabrizio Barocchi, Universitá di Firenze, Italy
Dr. A. A. van Well, IRI, the Netherlands
Prof. Juan Colmenero, Univ. del País Vasco, Spain
Dr. Joseph Zaccai, Inst. de Biol. Struct. CEA-CNRS, France.
Networks and other European initiatives:

XENNI: Dr. Mike Johnson, ISIS, UK
PECNO: Prof. Helmut Rauch, Wienna, Austria
ESS: Prof. Michael Steiner, Berlin, Germany
DGXII representative

Marco Malacarne, European Commission, Belgium
New participants can be included – when needed to cover the activities in the field

Reporting on the activities:

Progress report and cost statement annually – record all expenses and make these available on request for auditing by Brussels
Final report for publishing
Annual and final report to EC and the participants
Can be accomplished if each supported activity, has an assigned person, who locally handles the meeting, prepares a cost statement and a small report on the activity, before reimbursement of expenses from the EC contract.

Allowable costs:
Personnel cost: Professional or Post Graduate staff managing and co-ordinating the Round-Table – on a recorded hour by hour basis. (research activities, management staff, secretaries etc can NOT be supported)

Exchange and mobility Cost:

Cost of holding meetings

Travel and subsistence relating to visits or short term exchange between partners. (according to normal procedures for the participant concerned)

Cost of external services (publication etc.)

Overheads 20% to cover all other expenses.



Communication: Electronic communication only was used for the preparation of this meeting.

It was agreed to continue with electronic communication, and send documents and material in the formats:
e-mail – ascii plus Word attachment
www – page for the Round-Table (http://www.risoe.dk/fys/TMR.htm)
pdf format.

FOR THESE MINUTES I HAVE USED WWW and e-mail with attached pdf file only.

Initiatives to be supported by the Round-Table:

I have now read the small letters in the contract, studied our proposal carefully and tried to reconcile that with our discussions in Copenhagen. In the following I will go through all 4 topics in the programme – summarise what we have promised and suggest a budget and some guidelines for the administration of the programme. These suggestions are based on the discussions in Copenhagen.

The present budget is given below – I suggest that we only make small changes to this budget until we have a year of experience with the programme:




Managing the Round-Table: Co-ordinate activities, follow the progress of TMR access programmes, make decisions on which activities should receive support from the Concerted Action, follow the progress of these activities etc.
I expect we will have the following series of Round-Table meetings:
1) Copenhagen, Feb. 1998, topic: Start of programme.
2) San Sebastian Spain, Early 1999, topic: Framework V.
3) Budapest, 1-4 September 1999, topic: ECNS’99 and hands-on training, workshops
4) ??, early 2000 to prepare final workshops.
5) Final meeting in connection with the mapping workshop(s).

For the time being we reserve 12000 ecu for a training course at ECNS’99 in Budapest.


Mapping studies: The Round-Table will keep a watching brief on the scientific need for access to neutron sources through workshops on new developments, which might change the potential and the need for access to neutron sources.
In the proposal/contract we have promised to update the case for neutrons in either one big or three smaller workshops covering the new developments within the three areas: 1) Science, 2) Sources and 3) Instrumentation.

I suggest that we reserve the allocated 30000 ecu and have the first discussion of this at the Round-Table meeting in Budapest 1999, and make the final arrangements at the subsequent meeting.

Joint activities: Work towards better co-ordination and collaboration on instrument development (standardisation and co-production of components).
All Laboratories should be responsible for their own development. Joint activities are activities which support spreading of information/knowledge, mutual assistance and training of staff plus initiatives to set up common standards in order to get industry/ SME’s involved in the fabrication of standard components i.e. activities which are of general use for the community, and not specific to a given upgrade at one single centre.

In the proposal/contract we have promised to use this funding to 1) support transfer of technologies and sharing of knowledge between centres, through interchange of personnel.2) Keep an updated list on of ongoing activities and relevant contact points. (the 7 ENSA groups) 3) Co-ordination meetings.

A new ENSA initiative was discussed at the ENSA meeting in Delft (Dec. 97): Each facility were asked to present possibilities for instrument upgrades and expected gains. Albert Furrer suggest that the Round-Table should take care of producing such a compilation, since it is a topic related to neutron sources. (ENSA should rather deal with topics related to the users). Albert Furrer suggests Reinhard Scherm for this job.
This topic will be on the agenda for the next meeting.

In order to stay within the contract I suggest that for the time being we plan on supporting:

1) Meetings to promote networking of technical staff - to seek better co-ordination and collaboration on the development of instruments and ancillary equipment, through grants for travel and subsistence. (5 – 7 persons per meeting, 3 meetings per year and 3500 ecu per meeting). I.e. support for intiatives like Ian Andersens suggestions on Monochromators, Michael Meissners on Ancillary equipment and Collin’s meeting on choppers
2) Support for individual technical staff to visit and stay at another laboratory for transfer of knowledge between laboratories or for use of special infrastructure at another facility – 1-2 visits per year. (max 2000 ecu pr visit)




Other activities: In collaboration with ENSA to take initiatives to increase the knowledge about the potential of and the availability of facilities for neutron scattering to areas of science and regions in Europe, which are not adequately familiar with these opportunities.
The actions we have promised to take is
1) Summer schools – support for at least one existing summer school per year.
2) Documentation on neutron scattering and training of University teachers – material should be available on the web.
I have made the following suggestion based on our discussions in Copenhagen:
1) Summer schools – grants for travel and subsistence to 10 – 15 needy students per year to attend a non-national summer school. (typical 2500 ecu ~3-5 grants for each of up to 3 supported summer schools per year, the support should not exceed 5000 ecu for one school). A maximum of 7500 ecu/year can be allocated for this purpose.
2) Support for 1-2 workshops per year – (typical 8000 ecu/workshop). A maximum of 16000 ecu/year can be allocated for this purpose.
3) Providing material for university teachers were found to be very important.


We will need simple procedures for granting support to the following activities:

networking of technical staff and instrument designers
interchange of technical staff for technology transfer
summer schools
workshops
I suggest we publicise the something along the lines:
The EC-TMR Round-Table on Neutron Beam Sources has a limited number of grants for support of activities within the area of neutron and muon beam research. Support can be obtained for summer schools, workshops and networking of technical staff working with instrumentation and ancillary equipment. For further information please consult: http:www.risoe.dk/tmr.htm.
Support for summer schools (max two pages):
Who can be supported: Students who can not otherwise find support for participation in a summer school outside his/her own country.

What can be supported: travel and per diem plus school fee.

Who can apply: The organiser of the summer school, who will administer the grant.

Number of grants: up to 3 per year.

Size of grants: typical grant 2500 ecu maximum 5000 ecu (500-800 ecu pr student supported).

Deadline: 1 March and 1 September for the following July-December and January-June periods. For 1998 the deadline is May 1st for the second half of 1998.

Submit proposal to: kurt.clausen@risoe.dk

Format: (max. 2 pages with the following information)

The organiser of the summer school:

Name of summer school:

Date and location:

Scope of the summer school:
Short programme for summer school and lecturers :
Anticipated number of students (national / non-nationals):
Total budget for the summer school :

Why is EC support important:

Size of grant requested:

Estimated number of students to be supported:


Support for workshops (max two pages):
Who can be supported: Participants who can not otherwise find support for participation in such a workshop (outside his/her own country).

What can be supported: travel and per diem.

Who can apply: The organiser of the workshop, who will administer the grant.

Number of grants: 1-2 per year.

Size of grants: typical grant 8000 ecu (500- 1000 ecu pr participant supported).

Deadline: 1 March and 1 September for the following July-December and January-June periods. For 1998 the deadline is May 1st for the second half of 1998.

Submit proposal to: kurt.clausen@risoe.dk

Format: (max. 2 pages with the following information)

Organiser of the workshop:

Name of workshop:

Date and location:

Scope and programme for the workshop:

Anticipated number of participants (national / non-nationals):

Total budget for the workshop :

Why is EC support important:

Size of grant requested:

Estimated number of participants to be supported:


Support for networking, collaboration and interchange of knowledge on instrument and ancillary equipment development (max two pages):
Who can be supported: Technical staff at neutron scattering centres, universities or SME’s involved in the development and use of research infrastructure for neutron and muon beam scattering who can not otherwise be supported for these joint activities.

What can be supported: travel and per diem.

Who can apply: The organiser of the meeting, who will administer the grant.

Number of grants: 1-3 per year.

Size of grants: typical size of grant 3500 ecu (500- 700 ecu pr participant supported).

Deadline: 1 March and 1 September for the following July-December and January-June periods. For 1998 the deadline is May 1st for the second half of 1998.

Submit proposal to: kurt.clausen@risoe.dk

Format: (max. 2 pages with the following information)

Organiser of the meeting:

Name of meeting:

Date and location:

Scope and programme for the meeting:

Anticipated number of participants (academia / Industry - SME Small and Medium size Enterprises):
Total budget for the workshop :
Why is EC support important:

Size of grant requested:

Estimated number of participants to be supported:


Support for technology transfer (max two pages):
Who can be supported: Individual technical staff at a neutron scattering centre, university or SME’s in order to transfer knowledge between facilities or use special infrastructure at another facility.

What can be supported: travel and per diem.

Who can apply: The facility needing the knowledge or the special infrastructure.

Number of grants: 1-2 per year.

Size of grants: 2000 ecu (typical 1000-2000 ecu pr participant supported).

Deadline: can be submitted at any time.

Submit proposal to: kurt.clausen@risoe.dk

Format: (max. 2 pages with the following information)

Name of proposer:

Title, home laboratory and function of person to be supported:

Host laboratory, date and duration of visit:

Scope for the activity:

Will this activity be of use to other facilities:

Budget for the activity :

Why is EC support important:

Size of grant requested:

Procedures for evaluating proposals:

A call for proposals is circulated – with deadline twice per year. The proposals are ranked by all members on the Round-Table (one week for evaluation). An evaluation form will be prepared and enclosed with the proposals. The form will contain the following points:

Is the proposal within the scope of this programme?
Should it receive support?
Is the requested amount of support reasonable?
Rank the proposal (relative to other proposals within the same category)
Other comments or suggestions.
The handling of proposals will be via e-mail. I will compile the results.
It is the responsibility of the TMR-Access contract holders to ensure that the EC funding is distributed according to the EC-rules and particularly that both topical and regional considerations are taken into account. This means that we will use the ranking given by the Round-Table – unless it leads to a very unbalanced distribution of the funding. The final result will be circulated to the whole Round-Table.

The organisers of meetings, schools and workshops will be responsible for administering the grant, and will report back to me with a short report and financial documentation required by Brussels.

I will be required to make annual reports and final reports to Brussels and the Round-Table.

So far we have received expression of interest for the following activities:


I will also ask ENSA to publicise the programme to the ENSA members.

News from facilities and networks:

In these minutes I have only included a very brief account of the news at the facilities – A few facilities have handed fuller material to me. This material will be copied and circulated later. A longer presentation of ILL will be given at the next Round-Table meeting.

News from Austron (H. Weber)

The Austron project has been very favourably reviewed by the ESF and consequently the Austrian Government and the Austrian scientific community has in January this year nominated H. Weber as Project Manager and formed 3 working groups to deal with: 1) Technical and Political positioning of the project. 2) Instrumentation for the facility, and 3) the accelerator and medical part of the project.

The Austrian Government has put 1/3 of the construction budget up front. The remaining 2/3 will have to be found from external sources. Possibilities for pairing with other facilities in the area (f.i. FRMII in Munich) was also being examined.

The Round-Table strongly supports the Austrian initiative (AUSTRON), and encourages close contacts to the ESS R&D project.

News from PSI (Albert Furrer)
The spallation neutron source SINQ will start normal operation in June 1998. For the next 4 years the following upgrade programme will be realized: (1) increase of the proton current from 1.6 to 2.0 mA; (2) insertion of a new lead containing target (factor of 2 gain); (3) reduction of the size of a nuclear physics target in front of SINQ (50% gain).

News from Jülich (Michael Prager)
Jülich is guaranteed reprocessing of fuel until 2006.
New instrument development: SV29 a thermal tof spectrometer (similar to IN4 at ILL) with incident energies up to 60 meV and ~6% resolution. SV4 TAS fitted with a polarising 3He filter. DNS Diffuse neutron scattering spectrometer (3 Å) with full x,y,z polarisation analysis. SANS spectrometer with elliptically focussing mirrors. Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometer with new stray field compensating coils and correction coils in the beam path (fully compensated setup)

News from the ESS project (M. Steiner)
M. Steiner is responsible for the instrumentation initiatives in the ESS R&D phase. These activities will be divided in three groups dealing with: 1) Instrumental concepts which can be considered as upgrades to known designs. 2) Instrumental concepts known from continuos sources but not proven at a spallation source and 3) Entirely new concepts only feasible at a high power pulsed source. On March 31, 1998 a meeting is held in at HMI in Berlin, where members and heads of the three groups shall be identified.
The groups shall be able to present an outlook for a spring 99 OECD ministers meeting about ESS type projects World wide.

News from BNC Budapest (L. Rosta)
Important events and dates:
Fuel for BNC is secured until 2003 and the present license expires in 2014.
A cold neutron source will be installed and 80 m of guide replaced in 1998. A reflectometer has been installed and a TAS and materials testing instrument will be ready by the end of this year.
Hungary will join the 5th framework programme.

News from Orphee, LLB (Ch-H. de Novion)
Important events and dates:
1997 New Zircalloy D2O container, enhancing the lifetime of the reactor to far into the next millennium. The Audit on the reactor was also very positive.
1998 funding reduction of 4% because of budget problems (CEA-CNRS) leading to a reduction in reactor operation days from 240 to 210 days per year.
Present agreement for funding the reactor (CEA-CNRS) runs until 31/12 1999.
Highly enriched fuel available until 2003.
Agreement about reprocessing of fuel being negotiated.
TMR programme: 1/9 96 – 31/8 99 – 1700 kecu, beam fee 1180 ecu/day
Extension: 1/9 99 – 30/4 2000 – 270 kecu, beam fee 1180 ecu/day

News from HMI-BENSC BER2 (R Michaelsen)
Important events and dates:
1998 Conversion from HEU to LEU (20%) fuel (only marginal flux reduction because of rearranged core) and building of a new support structure for a new powder diffractometer. Because of these activities BER2 will only 8 (instead of 12) 3 week cycles in 1998.
TMR programme: 1/4 95 – 30/4 2000 – 1638 kecu, beam fee 1500 ecu/day
Peco programme ended.

News from ISIS Neutrons (C Carlile)
Important events and dates:
The new instruments GEM, OSIRIS, MAPS and TOSCA will soon produce data.
A survey of users shows that the peak in the age distribution of users is below 30 – a very positive sign for the field.
A second target station is proposed (but not yet funded). This is a 90 Mecu project, which would also lead to an increase in the ISIS current to 300 mA.
TMR programme: 1/1 96 – 30/4 2000 – 3000 kecu, beam fee 11500 ecu/day

News from ISIS Muons (G Williams)
Important events and dates:
DEVA in continuous operation for the next 2 cycles.
No TMR access programme for 1999.
TMR programme: 1/1 96 – 31/12 1998 – 1500 kecu, beam fee 11500 ecu/day

News from NFL (R McGreevy)
Important events and dates:
SLAD is very productive and highly demanded, TTOF and KEMLAB are becoming operational and accessible.
At a meeting on 25/2 1998 – Studsvik was not granted status as a national Swedish facility – in spite of a very positive review – the situation is chaotic and very severe.
(This decision does not make sense! In spite of being grossly understaffed the group at Studsvik has managed to get a very supportive evaluation, and to outside observers it is obvious that during the last few years both science and instrumentation at NFL have evolved in an outstanding way. The Round-Table is very concerned about this development, and the chairman was given authority to send a letter of support for NFL on behalf of the entire Round-Table, if R McGreevy found it to be helpful).
TMR programme: 1/3 96 – 29/2 1999 – 300 kecu, beam fee 710 ecu/day
TMR extension: 1/3 99 – 30/4 2000 – 134 kecu, beam fee 1340 ecu/day

News from Risø (K N Clausen)
Important events and dates:
The basic grant for Risø is negotiated every 4 years, the present contract expires 31/12 2001. Fuel reprocessing is secured until guarantied until 31/5 2006.
TAS7 - new analyser spectrometer - being designed. High resolution version of RITA
The INTERNAL STRESS Spectrometer on TAS8 (cold beam) has been successfully tested on TAS3 - (thermal beam) In the future both options will be available for our users.
TMR programme: 1/3 96 – 29/2 1999 – 2000 kecu, beam fee 1343 ecu/day
TMR extension: 1/3 99 – 30/4 2000 – 737 kecu, beam fee 1343 ecu/day

News from XENNI (M. Johnson)
The XENNI programme on neutron instrumentation was described and highlights from the work on detectors, polarisers and software was presented.
The MID TERM REVIEW: Technical audit
(selection of overheads from the presentation)

TMR: 11 progamme areas, 109 Access programmes, 31 RTD programmes10 concerted actions.

Panel: 30-35 members to cover all areas, Chairman Prof. Eigil Præstgård (Roskilde University, DK)



Objective for audit:

Individual evaluation of each TMR contract - fulfilment of original objectives, impact and cost-effectiveness.
a) publication of opportunities and selection of users,
b) service to users and scientific output,
c) value for money.
d) Review the implementation of the contract
e) provide feed-back for contractors
f) to note good and bad practices.

Evaluation of the TMR-LSF activity as a whole - fulfilment of original objectives, impact and cost-effectiveness.
a) Review the suitability of including members of this class of facilities in The TMR-LSF activities
b)to make a comparative assessment within one class of facilities
c)to make recommendations to the next panel.

To offer guidance to improve impact and cost-effectiveness of the programme.
Advice on initiatives that could be taken to monitor the impact
(probably bibliometric study of neutrons, synchrotron and a field unrelated to these two)
To provide background information for the next evaluation panel - both performance of individual facilities and groups of facilities.
Produce 2 documents:
1) Collection of individual reviews by 31 Jan 1999 (not published) but sent to facility managers for commenting
2) the complete mid-term review to be published March 1999.
(to prove that the access programmes were not a closed club………)



5th framework Programme (Selection of overheads)
Final formulation of the programme during first few month of 1998.
Call for proposals end of 1998

Start of first programmes end of 1999

3-5 ‘vertical’ themes (focused on problems)

+

horizontal activity (focused on techniques, infrastructure etc.)


Framework 5 seems to be more open to:

Collaboration with countries outside EU
SME (Small and Medium Size Enterprises)
The horizontal activity:
IHP – Improving Human research Potential

Training and Mobility

Networks
individual fellowships
Industrial hosted fellowships
Industry/academia mobility
Enhancing access to Research infrastructure
Rarity and specialisation
Networks between infrastructure operators
Workshops conferences etc.
Strengthen Socio-economics knowledge base


It was agreed that the next meeting of the Round-Table should have Framework 5 as its main topic.

Date and venue for the next meeting:

Early 1999 when the information material / call for proposals are available. Juan Colmenero has kindly offered to host the meeting at San Sebastian.

Special topic for next meeting:

Framework 5

Suggestions for new participants on the Round-Table:

The FRM2 and the Austron project was proposed as new members on the Round-Table. I will contact these two activities and invite them on the Round-Table.

The format of future meetings will be similar to the meeting in Copenhagen. The meetings will start at noon on the first day and continue until noon on the second day, followed by a visit to a facility (if appropriate). In order to save time and money meetings will whenever possible be held in direct connection with other meetings, where a reasonable fraction of the participants would present anyway.

Initiatives receiving support during the first 6 month of 1998:

4th European school on Scattering methods applied to soft condensed matter, Austria 1-7 march 98, organised by Peter Lindner – support for foreign students of up to 4000 ECU from the other activities account.

Workshop on a doubly focusing monochromator assembly. ILL January 98. Joint activity organised by Ian Anderson, which involves SME’s in Spain and is very much along the lines wanted by Brussels. Up to 2500 ECU from the joint activities account.

The first meeting to set-up a network to work on the instrumentation for the ESS, HMI Berlin 31 March 98. Support only for participants from Laboratories, which have not signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The meeting is arranged by M. Steiner. Up to 4500 ECU from the joint activities account.



Risø 8 April, 1998



Kurt Nørgaard Clausen