Date: 8 - 10 December 2026
Venue: ELI Beamlines Facility, ELI ERIC, Czech Republic
Room: Conference Hall (1st floor)
Format: hybrid
Description
The kick-off workshop for ICED Working Groups will be a hybrid event hosted at the ELI Beamlines facility in the Czech Republic.
The scientific program of the workshop includes a plenary overview of target supply-chain challenges, WG kick-off sessions, and short sessions for stakeholders. Topic sessions will be chaired by holders of horizontal leadership positions. The plenary will be more broadly advertised to stakeholders in the region of central Bohemia and an online audience via the usual dissemination channels of ELI as open seminar for stakeholder involvement.
The program comprises closed events reserved for members of different bodies of the Action:
- The first quarterly meeting of the Action's Core Group will be organized:
- holders of horizontal leadership positions will meet with Working Group leaders and co-leaders to discuss kick-off activities, the implementation of Plans and the status of upcoming Milestone Reports and Deliverables;
- new WG applications will be discussed,
- the first WG meeting will be organized to discuss horizontal activities, work plans and the state of the art in parallel sessions for all Working Groups.
See the Agenda for more details HERE.
Participants
The body of invited in-person participants will comprise Core Group members and task leaders from COST member countries, others to be joint online. All Working Group members and Working Group member applicants will be invited to participate online, or in person, based on their own initiative but without reimbursement.
Program
If an event is reserved for a specific subset of ICED members, the respective group is indicated in squared brackets. All other events are open to all participants of the meeting.
