Program

Session Flow

26 February 2025 - Wednesday

We will meet on Tuesday, February 25th, at 3:00 PM at the University of Bremen for a lab tour (participation is completely optional). If you’d like to join, please don’t forget to indicate your interest on the registration form! 

09:00Arrival and Registration
09:15Welcome and Introduction
Session 1: How do Core Facilities contribute to their host institutions?
10:15Impact of Core Facilities on their host institutions
Robbie Sinnot
Dublin City University
10:55Poster Pitches (incl. Coffee break)
12:30Lunch break 
Session 2: Managing a Core Facility
14:00Combining three Core Facilities into one
Krzysztof Wozniak
University Warsaw
15:00Usage Fees, Billing, Accounting
Juliane Hoth and Elmar Endl
Universitat Dresden and Universitat Bonn
16:00Coffee break 
16.30Access / training concepts
Mariana Carvalho
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
17:00Governance structures
Robert Bannister
UK National Diffraction Facility
17.30End of the first day 
18:00Social event - City Tour

27 February 2025 - Thursday

Session 3: Scientific Advances made at Core Facilities
09:00Descriptor-based High-Throughput Methods for Materials Discovery
Nils Ellendt
University of Bremen
10:00Interoperable workflows as an enabler for materials design
Tilmann Hickel
Plattform MaterialDigital
10:40Coffee break 
11:10Correlating atom probe tomography and transmission electron microscopy
Lisa Belkacemi
Leibniz-IWT
11:50PROMES Solar Facilities
Ludovic Charpentier
CNRS
12:30Lunch break 
Session 4: Data Management in Materials Science
14:00PANGAEA - from institutional metadata repository to international Data Publisher for Earth and Environmental Science
Janine Felden 
PANGAEA
14:45LIMS and ELNs for Core Facilities
Norbert Riefler
Leibniz-IWT
15:30Coffee break 
16:00Ontologies for Core Facilities
Henk Birkholz
Leibniz-IWT
16:45Finding a common data format for diffraction data
Brian Pauw
Nexus Project
17:30End of the second day 
19:30Workshop dinner

28 February 2025 - Friday

Session 5: Outreach and PR
9:00Outreach and PR of Core Facilities 
Marie Illing
TU Ilmenau
9:30Discussions : Best practices and new ideas  for outreach activities
10:00Coffee break 
Session 6: Collaboration between Facilities and Funding
10:15Collaboration  in Practice : Efforts in the Berlin University Alliance  to coordinate Core Facilities  and an introduction  of IG-EME
Dirk Berger
TU Berlin, Speaker of IG-EME
11:00Introduction of the Excite network 
Oliver Plümper
Utrecht University 
11:15Core Facilities - more than instrumentation! Points of Contact to DFG Funding Scheme
Michael Royeck
German Research Foundation
11:45Coffee break 
12:15Core Facilities and Collaboration – Funding perspectives in Horizon Europe
Christoph Peschke
National Contact Point Horizon Europe 
Recap
12:45Recap and discussion - How to collaborate in the future 
13:45 Closing and Farewell
14:30Lab tour at the University 

 

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