The Photon and Neutron Open Science Cluster (PaNOSC)
The Photon and Neutron Open Science Cluster (PaNOSC) is the Science Cluster representing Photon and Neutron European Research Infrastructures (RIs), developing and providing services for its scientific community and connecting these to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Objectives
- Participate in the construction of the EOSC Federation by creating the PaNOSC EOSC Node and linking with the other science clusters.
- Make scientific data produced at Europe’s major Photon and Neutron sources fully compatible with the FAIR principles.
- Generalise the adoption of open science, standard metadata and data stewardship from all photon and neutron RIs and physics institutes across Europe
- Provide innovative data services to the users of these facilities locally and the scientific community at large via the EOSC.
- Increase the impact of RIs by ensuring data from user experiments can be used beyond the initial scope.
- Share the outcomes with the community at large to promote the adoption of FAIR data principles, data stewardship and the EOSC.
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Latest News
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Published 16th January 2026
PaNOSC at the School on Synchrotron Light Sources and Their Applications - Watch the video
On January 15th, PaNOSC coordinator, Andy Götz, contributed to the School on Synchrotron Light Sources and Their Applications, with a talk on Open Science and FAIR Data, titled “The role of the [Open] Scientist in making Data FAIR for Reproducible Science”. The School. which was held online from the 12th to the 23rd of January […]
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Published 17th December 2025
PANOSC consortium signs Memorandum of Understanding with the European Open Science Cloud
The Director General of the ESRF, Jean Daillant, representing the 11 partners of the Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud (PaNOSC), has signed the EOSC Federation Memorandum of Understanding with the EOSC Association today, in presence of ILL representatives. On the 17th December 2025 the ESRF, host of PaNOSC, signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the EOSC Association to join the EOSC Federation. […]
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Published 3rd November 2025
Welcome to the EOSC Federation: MoU establishes shared path to operations
BRUSSELS — Today at the EOSC Symposium, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) took a major step toward its consolidation as Europe’s research and innovation data space. The 14 coordinators of the EOSC Federation’s first wave of EOSC Nodes joined EOSC Association (EOSC-A) President Klaus Tochtermann and Co-Chair of the EOSC Federation’s Build-up Group Bob […]
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Use Cases
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Published 5th July 2023
Use Case 32 - Reflectometry case study
Description of research Dr McCluskey et al. were interested in the structure of phospholipid monolayers at the surface of a novel Deep Eutectic Solvent (DES). They were able to collect a series of X-ray reflectometry data. However the analysis could not rely on the usual assumptions made about these materials previously measured on water. Challenge […]
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Published 5th July 2022
Use case 31 - Seamless connection of Jupyter notebooks and GUI applications for e-learning purposes
Open education through MOOCs (massive open online courses) has attracted considerable attention in recent years, both due to availability in technology, and to a recent increase in demand for online content. The PaN e-learning platform is a portal which represents the joint effort of the PaN community. The PaNOSC and ExPaNDS projects have been building […]
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Published 26th April 2022
Use Case 30 - VISA - Data Analysis in the Cloud
With the introduction of VISA (Virtual Infrastructure for Scientific Analysis) in June 2020, there has been a significant change with how scientists analyse experimental data and perform experiments at the ILL. Using a web browser, within a couple of minutes, a researcher can get access to a high-performance and secure data analysis environment, installed with […]
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