[25-24] LIFETIME IMPACT STUDY OF ILL

The Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) is the world’s leading neutron science and technology facility. t is a European research organisation based on inter-governmental agreements with three main stakeholders (Associates) – France, Germany and the UK – and ten more stakeholder countries (Scientific Members) – Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland. ILL was created in 1967 and has been operating since the early 1970s, producing more than 25 000 scientific publications to date. It is now recognized that such scientific production leads to major impacts – innovation, economic and societal – and that are there are many other important impacts, such as human resources and training and through procurement, resulting from sustained operation over many decades. These impacts must be measured and expressed as a return on the considerable investment of national funding, including a stakeholder-based analysis.... ... Object ILL is therefore seeking to commission a Lifetime Impact Study for which the principal deliverable will be a comprehensive report describing in detail the range of impacts of the ILL since its inception in 1967 and including future, near-term impacts. Scope The Impact Study must: • Draw out all forms of impact – scientific, human resources/training, innovation, economic and societal – in a balanced approach from more than fifty years of operation; • Include impacts that will emerge in the near future; • Provide a breakdown of impacts in terms of the ILL’s stakeholders – Associates and Scientific Members; • Provide methodology for ILL to continue capturing impact in the medium and longer term; • Take into account that the significant duration of operation is an opportunity to capture impact that takes time to emerge (from scientific to innovation, economic and societal) but recognising that data from the first decades of operation may be less easy to exploit.