Transnational Access
Transnational Access to irradiation facilities is the cornerstone of the RADNEXT project. More than 6000 beam time hours are awarded during the four years of the project, in more than 20 different facilities in Europe and beyond.
Both academic and industrial groups are eligible for beam time as potential RADNEXT users, and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are strongly encouraged to submit their proposals. Beam time awarded for RADNEXT users is free of charge, funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101008126.
Calls for Proposals will be opened to accept users’ research project to exploit the RADNEXT network. These proposals will be reviewed by an independent User Selection Panel (USP), that includes high-profile, international experts in the field of industrial and academic research on electronics’ radiation effects.
Submitted proposals will be evaluated, and final decisions communicated to the applicants, with short lead time, allowing the proposed activities to be performed few weeks after the proposal acceptance.
Eligibility
The EU Transnational Access scheme has precise eligibility rules for the members of a research team that want to exploit a facility in the consortium.
The user group leader, and the majority of the group members, must work in a country other than the one where the installation is located.
Only user groups that are allowed to disseminate the results they have generated under the action may benefit from the access, unless the users are working for SMEs.
For the full list of eligibility criteria, see the Article 16.1 of the Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement.
Facilities with availability
These tables are for information purposes only!
The facilities listed here will not necessarily be available (or unavailable) for the current Call For Proposals!
| Institute / Organisation |
Facility | Country | Beam type | 15th TA call (Sep 2025) |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UKRI-STFC | EMMA | United Kingdom | Thermal neutron | Available | - |
| ILL | TENIS | France | Thermal neutron | Available | - |
| NPI-CAS | CANAM | Czech Republic | White neutron spectrum | Available | - |
| CNRS LPSC | GENESIS | France | Mono-energetic neutron | Available | Shutdown mid Dec - mid Jan |
| UKRI-STFC | ChipIr | United Kingdom | Atmospheric neutron | Limited | - |
| ENEA | FNG | Italy | Mono-energetic neutron | Limited | - |
| PTB | PIAF | Germany | Mono-energetic neutron | Limited | Shutdown period Dec-Feb |
| HZDR | nELBE | Germany | White neutron spectrum | Limited | Some availability in Call 15 |
| GANIL | SPIRAL2-NFS | France | White neutron spectrum | Unavailable | Shutdown from November |
| TRIUMF | TNF | Canada | Atmospheric neutron | Unavailable | Shutdown for nearly whole period |
| Institute / Organisation |
Facility | Country | Beam type | 15th TA call (Sep 2025) |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSI | PIF | Switzerland | Mono-energetic 10-230 MeV | Available | - |
| UMCG | PARTREC/AGOR | The Netherlands | Mono-energetic 10-190 MeV | Available | - |
| NPI-CAS | CANAM | Czech Republic | Mono-energetic < 35 MeV | Available | - |
| CNA | Tandem/Cyclotron | Spain | Mono-energetic < 20 MeV | Available | - |
| HZDR | DRACO | Germany | Laser pulsed proton spectrum | Available | - |
| HPTC | HPTC | Netherlands | Mono-energetic 70-250 MeV | Limited | - |
| TRIUMF | BL1B | Canada | Mono-energetic 360-500 MeV | Unavailable | Shutdown for nearly the whole period |
| CLPU | VEGA | Spain | Laser pulsed proton spectrum | Unavailable | - |
| Institute / Organisation |
Facility | Country | Beam type | 15th TA call (Sep 2025) |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCL | HIF | Belgium | Cocktail energy 9.3 MeV/n | Available | Available Feb-May 26 |
| GANIL | GANIL | France | Xe 10-50 MeV/n | Limited | Shutdown Oct-March, last beam time April 26 |
| JYU | RADEF | Finland | Cocktail energy 16.3 MeV/n | Limited | - |
| CERN | SPS North Area | Switzerland | Pb 150 GeV/n | Unavailable | - |
| CERN | CHIMERA/HEARTS | Switzerland | Pb 130-1000 MeV/n | Unavailable | - |
| UMCG | PARTREC/AGOR | The Netherlands | Light ions 30-90 MeV/n | Unavailable | - |
| GSI | SIS-18 | Germany | U 100-800 MeV/n | Unavailable | - |
| GSI | UNILAC | Germany | Ti and Au up to 10 MeV/n | Unavailable | - |
| Institute / Organisation |
Facility | Country | Beam type | 15th TA call (Sep 2025) |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CERN | CHARM | Switzerland | Mixed-Field | Available | Tests allowed March-May |
| HZDR | eELBE | Germany | Pulsed electron spectrum | Available | - |
| HZDR | gELBE | Germany | Pulsed gamma spectrum | Available | - |
| ESRF | ESRF | France | Pulsed X-rays | Limited | - |
| CLPU | VEGA | Spain | Laser pulsed electron spectrum | Unavailable | - |
| CLPU | VEGA | Spain | Laser pulsed X-ray spectrum | Unavailable | - |
| UKRI-STFC | RIKEN-RAL | United Kingdom | Mono-energetic muon | Unavailable | - |
For more information about RADNEXT facilities, please visit CERN Irradiation Facilities Database:
Submission
To submit your proposal, the application form has to be completed and submitted via the RADNEXT Call For Proposals (CFP) portal by the user group leader.
The 15th (last) Call For Proposals is OPEN!
Submission deadline is 30 September 2025.
Please note, that the 15th Call For Proposals is the last RADNEXT TA call.
Contacts
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The
User Support Expert (USE) team can provide technical support for users regarding beam time proposals and experiments. Please contact them via
radnext-use
cern.ch
.
With general questions about RADNEXT Transnational Access, please write to
radnext-tacern.ch
.