EURO-LABS: Europe’s Super Community of Subatomic Researchers

European-Laboratories for Accelerator Based Sciences (EURO-LABS) is a four-year project funded in the Horizon Europe program of the European Commission for Research infrastructure services to support health research, accelerate green and digital transformation, and advance frontier knowledge. Nuclear and high-energy physics explore at different scales of what the universe is composed and how it functions. Breakthroughs in accelerator and detector technologies combined with innovative experiments represent the key to new discoveries. High-energy physics, while preparing for the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), is pursuing the design of the next generation particle accelerators and detectors, balancing the present and the future. Newly available beams of nuclei far from stability and intense stable beams have opened new avenues, ranging from the production of new elements to the exploration of nuclear properties at extremes of temperature, angular momentum, and isospin. It is of vital importance to simultaneously optimize the use of existing and new research infrastructures (RI) to conduct curiosity-driven research addressing fundamental questions and technological challenges, and also advance projects with broad societal impact. EURO-LABS brings together, for the first time in Europe, the three communities engaged in nuclear physics and accelerator/detector technology for high-energy physics, pioneering a super community of subatomic researchers. The project provides efficient and unified access to the resources available at a large fraction of European laboratories and provides a diverse community of international users a very wide panel to choose the best and most relevant state-of-the-art RI or a network of RI and enhance Europe’s potential for successfully facing future challenges. EURO-LABS is a network of 33 research and academic institutions from 18 countries