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Synchrotron light is a key instrument for the scientific approach towards a sustainable world, and the ever-growing communication among the different synchrotron facilities boosts their scientific and socio-economic impact at regional and global levels.
Over the past decade, the ALBA Synchrotron, the Spanish 3rd generation light source, has become an important pillar of the Spanish and European Research Area, providing research capabilities and a wide range of state-of-the-art instrumentation to a community of more than 7000 academic and industrial users. With its ten operational experimental beamlines, while four more are being put into operation and with the creation, in collaboration with other institutions, of an electron microscopy center, it is an essential tool to address society's most urgent challenges.
ALBA is prepared to leap to the 4th generation, aiming at increasing its performance, reinforcing its role on the user community and on the industrial use of the instrumentation, as well as its educational vocation and training capacity. ALBA II, whose project has just started and is planned to be fully operative in the ‘30s, will combine the upgrade to low-emittance storage ring with the construction of new fully-optimized beamlines, the refurbishment of part of its instrumentation, and the evolution of the data infrastructure.
