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7th ESRF-ILL summer school On 6 September, 20 students from 10 different countries joined the 7th international student summer programme organised by the ESRF and the ILL. Students followed a series of introductory lectures on the principles and applications of X-ray and neutron science and worked on scientific projects, tutored by ESRF or ILL scientists.

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New access for cultural heritage research A block allocation group (BAG), a pilot project for new access modes to ESRF beam time developed thanks to STREAMLINE an EU H2020 project was launched for structural investigations of historical materials, with the aim to facilitate the cultural heritage research community s access to beam time. Over two runs of beam time in 2021, 21 BAG users from 10 different countries studied over 260 samples.

New InnovaXN PhD students welcomed The ESRF and ILL welcomed a second round of 20 PhD students as part of the EU H2020 MSCA COFUND doctoral training programme, InnovaXN. The 40 students involved will each work for three years on an innovative project in collaboration with industrial and academic partners.

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First beam for BM18 On 30 September, first beam was delivered to the new flagship EBS beamline for microtomography, BM18, set to open to users in September 2022. The exceptional performances of BM18, along with its design a 220-m-long beamline with the biggest synchrotron sample stage ever will enable scientists to perform hierarchical imaging down to the cellular scale on a complete human body, to scan an entire Tyrannosaurus rex skull, or to study the micro- fractures of whole wind turbine blades while carrying out mechanical tests.

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