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Research Network

Do you want to submit a relevant research proposal but lack access to the right equipment and expertise? Challenge us with a brilliant idea and we will help you magnify it in one of our facilities! Make sure to discuss this with the EXCITE scientists before you submit the proposal. Every project proposal will be assessed by an international review panel.

‘We enable you to excel by offering access to our facilities and connecting you with some of the best science teams in the world’ 

The EXCITE Network provides academic and industry users with access to high-end electron and X-ray microscopy facilities. By doing so, EXCITE will make leading-edge electron and X-ray microscopy available to an extensive user community.

Our extensive network of 24 facilities is located at 15 research institutions across 9 European countries.

Our network includes:

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4 locations that provide access to advanced electron microscopes (GFZ, CNRS, UBI, and UCAM).
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6 locations that provide access to advanced X-ray tomography instruments (UGent, HZDR, UPPA, TUD, NTNU, UEDIN).
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4 locations that provide access to both advanced electron and X-ray microscopy instruments (UU, UGR, UiO, and INGV).

We facilitate your research:

Our contribution to your research is by providing you with free-of-charge access to our facilities, helping you build international collaborations and showcasing your work through open science.

More information on facility access

Curious to learn more?

Twenty-four European facilities for electron and X-ray microscopy are joining hands. To better understand Earth and planetary materials and to together unveil the secret codes hidden under our feet. Curious? Like to learn more? Interested in gaining access to our EXCITE Imaging facilities? Please enter your email address and be one of the first geoscientists to be informed when we open calls for proposals. Other questions? Contact us here.

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