Researchers at KU Leuven (Belgium) and from the TU Graz’s (TUG) outstation Austrian SAXS beamline c/o ELETTRA - Sincrotrone Trieste (Italy) developed a high-resolution resist-free lithography process to pattern metal-organic framework (MOF) films.

Kick-off of the NFFA-Europe PILOT project, funded by the European Union with fifteen million euros, for a period of five years. The project, coordinated by the Istituto officina dei materiali of the National Research Council (Cnr-Iom), involves twenty-two partners from nine Member States of the European Union and aims to increasing European competitiveness in nanosciences and nanotechnologies.

During the past year, the FAIR practice task force under the umbrella of the EOSC FAIR Working Group has been gathering its understanding of the current state of FAIR practices across diverse communities, and making recommendations aimed primarily at research funders and policymakers on how to ensure that “FAIR” provides maximum value in the European Open Science Cloud.

Recently NFFA-Europe published a position paper on the crucial topic of pinning down the best practices that can enable Research Infrastructures (RIs) and industry to engage better one another.