As of January 2023, current LEAPS Vice Chair Jean Daillant, Director of SOLEIL in France, will take over the role of LEAPS Chair. The symbolic LEAPS baton was handed over to him by the outgoing Chair Leonid Rivkin from PSI, Switzerland on October 28 during the LEAPS General Assembly, collocated with the LEAPS 5th Plenary Meeting, at PSI in Switzerland. Leonid Rivkin, reflecting on his year of chairmanship said he was very proud of what LEAPS achieved in 2022 in spite of the many challenges and crisis faced by all our organizations across Europe.
The impact of the war in Ukraine is reverberating through research infrastructures, with rising energy costs and shortages of equipment manufactured abroad hitting these important shared facilities and forcing some to temporarily close their doors.
Europe’s largest research labs have begun to worry about soaring utility bills and are drafting proposals for additional funding, as they enter into negotiations with national research agencies on overall budgets.
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