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European XFEL joins EIROforum

Richard Wagner, ILL director, and all EIROFOrum DGs attended the signature ceremony in Culham on 8 November 2010.

At the Autumn 2010 Council meeting of the EIROforum, the partnership of seven European intergovernmental research organisations with large research infrastructures, the Directors General unanimously accepted the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL), based in Hamburg, Germany, to become its eighth member. More on the EIRoforum website.

Signing the declaration of accession of XFEL to the EIROforum: Massimo Altarelli, Chairman of the XFEL Management Board (left) and Francesco Romanelli, Chairman of the EIROforum (right). In the back (left to right): Francesco Sette (ESRF), Felicitas Pauss (CERN), Iain Mattaj (EMBL), Richard Wagner (ILL), Rowena Sirey (ESO) and David Southwood (ESA)