EAAC workshops and strategies

We report here about the last two EAAC workshops that have been partially supported by the I.FAST funded European Network for Novel Accelerators (EuroNNAc4), and about the WP6 contributions to the elaboration of common strategies to support the development of novel acceleration techniques. The European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (EAAC) series has the mission to discuss and foster methods of beam acceleration with gradients beyond state of the art in operational facilities. Started in September 2013, in the premises of the Hotel Hermitage in the Biodola bay in the island of Elba in Italy, it has continued its mission with biennial cadence until the 6^th edition in September 2023. The most cost effective and compact methods for generating high energy particle beams have been reviewed and assessed as a basis for elaborating strategies for the future R&D programs. Established since the 4^th EAAC workshop in 2019, the “Simon van der Meer Award” has been also assigned to recognize outstanding early career contributions in novel accelerator science.