Introducing
EMIR&A: FR 3618 and Research Infrastructure:
A network of facilities providing the scientific community with a set of advanced accelerators and in situ instruments with unique performances, dedicated to irradiation and analysis of molecules and materials.s.
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EMIR&A Call for proposal 2026 is now Open
Dear all,
We are pleased to announce that the call for proposals for EMIR&A experiments for the year 2026 will be open from September 15 to October 20, 2025. You can submit a proposal using your personal user space on https://emira.in2p3.fr/.
You can now contact the platform(s) on which you plan to submit an application. If you wish to continue an experiment, you will be asked to provide a report on the experiment already carried out.
Please note that EMIR&A will be organizing its EMIRUM workshop on December 8 and 9, 2025, at LP2I in Bordeaux. Save the date now! Registration will open at the end of September.
Best regards,
16/09/2025
Facilities
EMIR&A facilities
The EMIR&A facilities are complementary to one another, regarding the accelerated particles, the available energies and the available instrumentation. They are distributed on 6 sites.
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Emir&a
In brief

EMIR&A is also a Research Infrastructure, listed in the Roadmap 2021-2025 of the French Ministry for Higher Education, Research, and Innovation
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Study of Irradiation and radiolysis effects in solids, in situ physical and chemical characterizations of materials, including ion beam analysis
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EMIR&A: a structure with international implications
EMIR&A is composed of 15 accelerators, distributed over 11 platforms located on 6 sites. Over the 2017-2020 period, EMIR&A users come on average for 2/3 from French laboratories and for 1/3 from foreign laboratories.