Identification number: 101130652
Type: Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Actions (RIA)
Duration: 01.03.2024 – 29.02.2028.
Project Leader: Dr. Michael Stuckelberger, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Responsible person from ISSP UL: Ph.D. Ainārs Ozols, Institute of Solid State Physics University of Latvia (ISSP UL)
Total funding: € 14 496 952,51, 100% EU
Aim of the project:
Coordinated by DESY, RIANA joins 7 European networks of top-level RIs to cover the most advanced techniques relevant to nanofabrication, processing/synthesis, characterization, and analysis as well as simulation capacity. Highly customized and efficient access to 69 infrastructures is coordinated via a single-entry point and enabled through comprehensive scientific and innovation service by senior scientists, facility experts, and highly trained junior scientists. This project encompasses both curiosity-driven research in nanoscience with open research questions for long-term impact, and challenge-driven research in nanotechnology with targeted research questions for short- and mid-term impact.
Project description:
Research in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology is vital for sustainability globally: advancement in nanoscience and nanotechnology cannot be achieved without using research infrastructures (RI).
RIANA encompasses 7 European networks of top-level RIs to cover the most advanced techniques relevant for synthesis, nanofabrication, processing, characterization, analytics, as well as simulation capacity. Highly customised and efficient access to 69 infrastructures is coordinated via a single-entry point and enabled through comprehensive Science and Innovation Service by senior scientists, experts for the transfer of technology from academia to industry, and highly trained Junior Scientists. The Junior Scientist boost RI experience to an entirely new level: they provide customised Science Service supporting users from initial ideas to hands-on experiments, data analysis and dissemination of results to generate the greatest impact from access to world-class RI.
This core of RIANA is aligned to attract experienced and new users from academia or industry making their
promising ideas a success and push them to higher TRL. RIANA is flexible to upcoming emergent scientific topics and needs: together with stakeholders from the nanocommunity, RIANA implements the opportunity to offer flexible access to additional infrastructures in, and even outside of Europe beyond the current consortium, and to direct the Science Service towards evolving user needs via additional specialised Junior Scientists.
Based on the four years of experience, the RIANA consortium will develop a roadmap for the future of the nanoscience and nanotechnology at European RIs.
Expected scientific results:
More wider access to reaserch infrastructures within EU.
Tasks at ISSP UL:
Provide access to micro and nano fabrication tools in a cleanroom environment.
Project webpage: riana-project.eu