The ELI Beamlines international laser research center, which is currently being developed across eastern Europe, has just opened its facility near Prague, Czech Republic. The center, which will house some of the world’s most powerful lasers, with intensities 10 times higher than those currently achievable elsewhere, is funded by the European Commission. This building is the first of three such facilities being built within the EU.
When complete in 2018, The ELI facility will be shared across four sites. Three of them are now being implemented in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, respectively, which together involve an investment exceeding €850 million, mainly from the European Regional Development Funds. Research operations, starting in 2018, will be unified under a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, known as ELI-ERIC.
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