4U-PI | Kick-off Meeting

Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 PM → Sep 16, 2026, 3:30 PM Europe/Prague

ELI Beamlines Facility

Tuesday, September 15

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Registration & Welcome Refreshment

1:00 PM → 1:15 PM Welcome by ELI Beamlines Facility Director

Speaker: Roman Hvězda (ELI Beamlines Facility)

1:15 PM → 2:00 PM Project Kick-off by Project Coordinator: Consortium Overview and Objectives

Speaker: Daniele Margarone (ELI Beamlines)

2:05 PM → 2:20 PM WP1 - Project Management and Coordination & WP8 - Ethics requirements | ELI ERIC

Speaker: Daniele Margarone (ELI Beamlines)

2:20 PM → 2:40 PM WP7 - Amplifying Impact: Effective Communication, Dissemination, and Capacity Building | ELI ERIC

Speaker: Daniele Margarone (ELI Beamlines)

2:40 PM → 3:00 PM Coffee Break

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM WP2 - Development of Ion Sources for Radiobiology and Biomedical Research | ELI ERIC

Speaker: Daniele Margarone (ELI Beamlines)

3:20 PM → 3:40 PM WP3 - Development of Neutron Sources for Radiobiology and Material Investigations | IFIN-HH

Speaker: Domenico Doria (ELI-NP)

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM WP4 - Perspective Medical and Industrial Exploitation of Laser-driven Ion and Neutron Sources | ELI ALPS

Speakers: Katalin Hideghety, Subhendu Kahaly, Tibor Gilinger

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM WP5 - Diagnostics and Instrumentation and integration with AI tools | CLF-UKRI

Speaker: Hamad Ahmed (CLF-UKRI)

4:20 PM → 4:40 PM WP6 - Open Call for AI tools development | EITM-S

Speaker: Alessio Gugliotta

4:40 PM → 5:00 PM Session Break

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Discussion and Q&A - Challenges, Synergies and Risks | ELI ERIC

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM Dinner at Mánes (Prague)

Wednesday, September 16

9:00 AM → 11:00 AM Breakout sessions: WP meetings

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Session Break

11:30 AM → 11:45 AM View of EU Project Officer | online

Speaker: Ioannis Andredakis

11:45 AM → 12:00 PM Budget and Pre-financing

Speaker: Pavla Svítilová

12:00 PM → 12:15 PM Reporting and Project Coordination

Speaker: Miroslav Chytil (The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC)

12:15 PM → 1:00 PM Q&A, Conclusions and Next steps

Speaker: Daniele Margarone (ELI Beamlines)

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM ELI Facility Tours (optional)

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM General Assembly meeting

Speaker: Florian Gliksohn (ELI ERIC)