epn-campus is an international science hub hosting three major European institutes along with joint partnerships. It is home to 1200 staff, 300 of which scientists or postgraduate students, and welcomes more than 8000 guest researchers every year, resulting in more than 2500 publications annually in peer-reviewed journals.

Grenoble, in the heart of the French Alps, is famous for science and innovation. In a world where technological progress is more than ever fuelled by fundamental research, the European Photon and Neutron Science Campus (epn-campus) builds upon the co-location of the world’s most powerful neutron source, the ILL, and the world’s premier photon source, the ESRF.

As service institutes, the ILL and the ESRF make their facilities available to visiting scientists from 19 member countries and all over the world. The Grenoble outstation of the EMBL on the campus has a scientific programme strongly related to the neighbouring neutron and photon facilities and amplified through numerous cooperative projects.

Ground breaking experiments at the very frontier of current research take place on the campus in fields as far apart as structural biology, fundamental physics, material science and environmental studies.

In order to maintain their world-leading ranks, the institutes build synergies and scientific partnerships at every level. New support facilities have been set up. These include the Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB), with a specialised deuteration laboratory for biological samples (D-Lab), and the Materials Science Support Laboratory. At the ESRF, eleven CRG (Collaborating Research Groups) complement the offer of beamlines to the European scientific community.

A new collaboration, the Partnership for Soft-Condensed Matter (PSCM) has just been established between the ILL and the ESRF, and other partnerships are foreseen in the future (extreme conditions).

This epn-campus common web site compiles information essential for visitors, whether they are scientific users of a facility, visitors to the institutes or members of the various scientific and administrative committees. In particular it enables access to the User Portals of the ILL and the ESRF where all user applications (account management, proposals, registration for experiments, reports, trainings etc) can be found.

EMBL Grenoble, France, is a laboratory of about 85 people, financed by 20 Member States and located in very close proximity to two unique European facilities for research in structural biology: the nuclear reactor of the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), which provides high flux neutron beams, and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), which produces amongst the world's most intense X-ray beams. [more]

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), located in Grenoble - France, is a joint facility supported and shared by 19 European countries.

The ESRF operates the most powerful synchrotron radiation source in Europe. Each year several thousand researchers travel to Grenoble where they work in a first-class scientific environment to conduct exciting experiments at the cutting edge of modern science. [more]

The Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) is an international research centre at the leading edge of neutron science and technology.

The Institute operates the most intense neutron source in the world, feeding intense beams of neutrons to a suite of 40 high-performance instruments that are constantly upgraded. [more]