FELS OF EUROPE is a collaboration of all free electron laser (FEL) facilities in Europe, with the goal to meet the technological and scientific challenges of these novel and rapidly developing technologies and to provide a worldwide unique, pan-European research infrastructure that enables exploiting the full scientific potential of these unique accelerator based short-pulse light sources. The collaboration is an initiative of the ESFRI projects EuroFEL and European XFEL and includes 15 facilities in 11 countries.

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15 October 2025

Topical Workshop on Selected Problems in FEL Physics: from Soft X-rays to THz

The 3rd edition of the international FELs of Europe event, “Topical Workshop on Selected Problems in FEL Physics: from Soft X-rays to THz", has just concluded in Grado, on the northern Adriatic ... more »
30 September 2025

PhotonDiag 2025 conference in Liverpool

The 7th FELs OF EUROPE Workshop on FEL Photon Diagnostics, Instrumentation, and Beamline Design took place in Liverpool, United Kingdom, at the Liverpool University Guild of Students from 2-4 ... more »
20 November 2024

FELs of Europe poster prize at UFDIM 2024

The UFDIM (Ultrafast Dynamic Imaging of Matter) conference 2024, held at DESY in Hamburg (Germany) from 18-20 November 2024, on top of the currently upgraded FLASH, focused on new techniques for ... more »
23 October 2024

JSR Special Issue on "PhotonMEADOW2023" published online now

The JRS Special Issue on the PhotonMEADOW2023 Joint Workshop which took place in Trieste from 12-14 September 2023 is now ... more »
18 September 2024

FELs of Europe brochure (Free Electron Lasers: Delivering brilliant science) now available

FELs of Europe and Strategy Group 2 (SG2) of LEAPS are proud to release a brochure showcasing highlights of 10 years of research with free-electron lasers. Thanks to Anton Barty from DESY and ... more »