Proposal submissions for joint ELI-ERIC User Calls

Submission process

ELI-NP follows the joint ELI-ERIC User Calls schedule, meaning that all experiment proposals intended for our facility's instrumentation are to be submitted via the ELI-ERIC User Portal.
The latest up-to-date information on the current or upcoming User Call can be accessed here: https://up.eli-laser.eu/ .

Proposal review process

1. Feasibility Assessment: Once submitted as part of the latest ELI-ERIC User Call, proposals are first assessed by our Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), who will confirm their technical and safety feasibility. Before submitting their proposals, Users are strongly encouraged to contact the ELI-NP staff members indicated as contact persons for their chosen instrumentation in order to address any technical or feasibility questions.

2. Peer review: Following the TAC evaluation, the scientific merit of all submitted proposals is assessed by the ELI-NP Program Advisory Committee (PAC), which is comprised of international experts in the field of laser-based studies. Our PAC team assists our facility's management in allocating beamtime for User experiments by assigning a score and rank to each submitted proposal.

The status and outcome of the proposal evaluation steps will be communicated by the User Office via e-mail notifications sent to each Principal Investigator without undue delay.

The Principal Investigators of successful proposals will be contacted with information on their allocated beamtime period, as well as the Local Experiment Responsible (LER) and Local Experiment Interface Officer (LEIO) that have been assigned to assist them during the performance of their experiment at ELI-NP.