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Mission and Aims of the IRUVX-PP Project

IRUVX-PP is the preparatory project to support the foundation of the EuroFEL Consortium¹⁾. It is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for a period of three years, starting 1st April 2008.

The EuroFEL Consortium is one of the 44 projects of the first European roadmap for new, large-scale Research Infrastructures, so-called ESFRI roadmap 2008 , and is a distributed Free Electron Laser (FEL) facility that joins complementary national FEL facilities into a unique European Research Infrastructure allowing novel and wide-ranging studies of matter by a large science community.

The IRUVX-PP project is co-funded by the European Commission under FP7 (Contract number 211285)

¹⁾ In the inital proposal the Consortium has been called "IRUVX-FEL".