Umbrella MoU Signed by 14 Parties

Umbrella is the pan-European federated identity system for the users of the large-scale European photon and neutron facilities. This IT platform offers for the first time an EU-wide, unique and persistent ID for a wide, multidisciplinary user community. It was initiated by the IRUVX-PP project and further developed with the support of several EU projects such as PaNdata and CRISP.
On the 31st of March 2015, the Memorandum of Understanding of the Umbrella Collaboration was signed by 14 parties: ALBA, DESY, Diamond Light Source Ltd, Elettra, EMBL Heidelberg, ESRF, European XFEL, HZB, ILL, Instruct Academic Services Ltd, KIT, PSI, STFC and SOLEIL.


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