SLS-Non-PX Users - Please note the following important information

EU funding for travel reimbursement available through CALIPSO, the new European Access Programme
European users will have access to Swiss Light Source through the EU Transnational Access (CALIPSO) arrangements. The level of access will be in accordance with agreed level of EU funding. Thus, users who would be eligible for travel & subsistence support through CALIPSO will be informed after the evaluation of the proposals. Approximately 10% of the highest ranked EU proposals will be eligible for travel & subsistence support. Per group one scientist will receive this financial support.

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SLS-PX Users - Please note the following important information

The intermediate funding for PX-users at the Swiss Light Source will be stopped by the end of February 2012

EU funding for travel reimbursement only available through BioStruct-X project

A new project funded by the European Commission and dedicated to Biological Structure determination at Synchrotron facilities started in September 1st, 2011 is now ready for receiving requests for transnational user support (travel reimbursement). One of the activities of the BioStruct-X project is the financial support to Transnational Users of synchrotron radiation techniques as Macromolecular Crystallography, Small Angle X-ray Scattering and X-ray Imaging, with research projects regarding the determination of structures of biological macromolecules and cellular and subcellular ultra structures. At the Swiss Light Source, the beamlines involved in this programme are PX-I (X06SA), PX-II (X10SA) and PX-III (X06DA).

The official web-site for this program is: http://www.biostruct-x.eu

The project operates a central Block Allocation Group (BAG) proposal mechanism, which will promote project excellence, multi-site applications and the combination of different methods and hybrid approaches. Applications for Trans National Access (TNA) support need to have been made prior to requests for facility access. The lifetime for BioStruct-X support of the BAG starts at the date when the evaluation result is passed to the proposers and is valid for one year.
During the lifetime of the BAG, BioStruct-X partner facilities for infrastructure (such as the Swiss Light Source) can be approached for access with BioStruct-X support. When applying via the facilities’ local application procedure, they must clearly identify themselves as applying as part of the BioStruct-X supported BAG. The facilities retain a right to decide on project access and additional project assessment procedures that may be required by their governance structures. Possible BioStruct-X support is limited to their offer within the BioStruct-X grant, not exceeding 20% of their facility user community, and therefore is not guaranteed by a successful BAG application.
Proposal submission can be done at the BioStruct-X webpage. The evaluation of the proposals will be carried out electronically and is expected to take less than one month (30 days) following each application deadline - please read: http://www.biostruct-x.eu/content/apply-funding.
Guidelines for the application procedure to receive BioStruct-X funding can be found here: http://www.biostruct-x.eu/content/application-guidelines-0 . For help with questions please contact the BioStruct-X project manager (http://www.biostructx.org/content/contact).

"The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n.°312284 (for CALIPSO), n.°283570 (for BioStruct-X) or n.°262348 (for ESMI)."