There is an increasing demand for a wide variety of complementary measurement and characterization techniques to be used together with neutron experiments. In the future, the challenge will be to make the most out of potential cooperative efforts, in order to achieve best possible scientific synergies.

Institut Laue-Langevinoperates the most intense neutron source in the world. The EuropeanSynchrotron Radiation Facility, ESRF, is today’s most powerful Europeansynchrotron. Constructing the ESRF on the ILL site is bringing increasingscientific benefits, as researchers using one facility frequentlyexploit the potential of the other.

ISIS is situated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. It is the world's leading pulsed neutron and muon source. Diamond is a thirdgeneration synchrotron light source.