Program
Session Flow
26 February 2025 - Wednesday
On Tuesday, February 25th, at 3:00 PM, we met at the University of Bremen for a lab tour. Participation was completely optional, and attendees who wished to join had the opportunity to indicate their interest on the registration form.
| 09:00 | Arrival and Registration |
| 09:15 | Welcome and Introduction |
| Session 1: How do Core Facilities contribute to their host institutions? | |
| 10:15 | Impact of Core Facilities on their host institutions Robbie Sinnot Dublin City University |
| 10:55 | Poster Pitches (incl. Coffee break) |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
| Session 2: Managing a Core Facility | |
| 14:00 | Combining three Core Facilities into one Krzysztof Wozniak University Warsaw |
| 15:00 | Usage Fees, Billing, Accounting Juliane Hoth and Elmar Endl Universitat Dresden and Universitat Bonn |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16.30 | Access / training concepts Mariana Carvalho International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory |
| 17:00 | Governance structures Robert Bannister UK National Diffraction Facility |
| 17.30 | End of the first day |
| 18:00 | Social event - City Tour |
27 February 2025 - Thursday
| Session 3: Scientific Advances made at Core Facilities | |
| 09:00 | Descriptor-based High-Throughput Methods for Materials Discovery Nils Ellendt University of Bremen |
| 10:00 | Interoperable workflows as an enabler for materials design Tilmann Hickel Plattform Material Digital |
| 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 | Correlating atom probe tomography and transmission electron microscopy Lisa Belkacemi Leibniz-IWT |
| 11:50 | PROMES Solar Facilities Ludovic Charpentier CNRS |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
| Session 4: Data Management in Materials Science | |
| 14:00 | PANGAEA - from institutional metadata repository to international Data Publisher for Earth and Environmental Science Janine Felden PANGAEA |
| 14:45 | LIMS and ELNs for Core Facilities Norbert Riefler Leibniz-IWT |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Ontologies for Core Facilities Henk Birkholz Leibniz-IWT |
| 16:45 | Finding a common data format for diffraction data Brian Pauw Nexus Project |
| 17:30 | End of the second day |
| 19:30 | Workshop dinner |
28 February 2025 - Friday
| Session 5: Outreach and PR | |
| 9:00 | Outreach and PR of Core Facilities Marie Illing TU Ilmenau |
| 9:30 | Discussions : Best practices and new ideas for outreach activities |
| 10:00 | Coffee break |
| Session 6: Collaboration between Facilities and Funding | |
| 10:15 | Collaboration 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 |
| 11:00 | Introduction of the Excite network Oliver Plümper Utrecht University |
| 11:15 | Core Facilities - more than instrumentation! Points of Contact to DFG Funding Scheme Michael Royeck German Research Foundation |
| 11:45 | Coffee break |
| 12:15 | Core Facilities and Collaboration – Funding perspectives in Horizon Europe Christoph Peschke National Contact Point Horizon Europe |
| Recap | |
| 12:45 | Recap and discussion - How to collaborate in the future |
| 13:45 | Closing and Farewell |
| 14:30 | Lab tour at the University |