On 2 March 2022, the Swedish Government encouraged higher education institutions and research funders to ”immediately stop all contact and cooperation with state institutions in Russia and Belarus and to not initiate any new contacts or commitments”.

This will affect MAX IV users affiliated with a Russian or Belarusian state institution, regardless of nationality. Russian or Belarusian nationals not affiliated with a Russian or Belarusian state institution, i.e. working in another country, are not affected. MAX IV has decided to end user agreements with affected users and implement the following restrictions with immediate effect and until further notice.

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For PIs affiliated with a Russian or Belarusian state institution, regardless of nationality: 

  • All accepted proposals from these PIs will cease validity, and all planned beamtimes associated with these proposals will be cancelled.
  • No new proposals will be accepted until further notice.

For any user affiliated with a Russian or Belarusian state institution, regardless of nationality:

  • No proposal shall have co-proposers with such affiliation.
  • No such user will be granted access to MAX IV facilities, neither remote nor on-site, including services such as data analysis, even if they are not PI on the proposal.
  • All accounts from such users will be deactivated, and no new user registration is possible for users with the aforementioned affiliation.

Please note: For publications that are related to experiments scheduled prior to February 2022, the mandatory acknowledgment to MAX IV must be modified according to the following (i.e.,the month and year when the experiment was scheduled should be specified):

“We acknowledge MAX IV Laboratory for time on Beamline [insert Beamline name here] under Proposal [insert proposal ID here] that was conducted in [insert Month Year here]. Research conducted at MAX IV, a Swedish national user facility, is supported by the Swedish Research Council under contract 2018-07152, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems under contract 2018-04969, and Formas under contract 2019-0249.”

As colleagues and members of the global research community, we hope to see all users back at MAX IV in a peaceful future.