XIII International Geant4 School
ELI Beamlines Facility, Dolní Břežany (CZ) | July 27-31, 2026
https://indico.eli-laser.eu/e/geant4_school
The XIII Geant4 International School will be held from July 27th to 31st 2026, at the Extreme Light Infrastructure - ELI Beamlines facility in Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic, in collaboration with the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS) of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and the COST Action CA21128 PROBONO.
The school is aimed at PhD students, post-docs, and young researchers working in various filelds from high energy, nuclear and accelerator physics, to medical and space science. The lectures of the XIII International Geant4 School will cover all aspects of the toolkit from basic installation through advanced topics and will be interspersed with examples that build a progressively more complex application, extensible to real space and medical use. The use of Geant4 in a laser-plasma environment will be discussed in a dedicated lecture.
The registration is open, the deadline for the registration is June 1, 2026 and all information can be found at the page: https://indico.eli-laser.eu/e/geant4_school
Participants are recommended to bring their own laptops. A virtual machine with Linux-CentOS and a ready-to-use Geant4 and Python installation will be made available.
The COST Action CA21128-PROBONO offers the opportunity of a reimbursement-type grant for up to 8 trainees.
According to COST rules, trainees eligleble to recieve financial support are only:
Individuals affiliated to a legal entity in COST Full/Cooperating Member, Near Neighbour Countries (NNC) or to a European RTD organisation. (see https://www.cost.eu/Country_Organisations_Table).
If you fulfill the above requirement, you can follow the next steps to apply for a CA21128-PROBONO scholarship until 20 of May 2026:
- Request for financial support by sending an email with your CV and a motivation letter to WG1-Leader, prof. Fitilis, at
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Use as subject "Request for GEANT4 scholarship" and you will recieve an automatic confirmation reply) - Join Working Group 1 or/and orthers WG of the COST Action PROBONO at https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21128 (you need to have/create an account to e-COST)
- By 25th of May, you will be informed via email if you are selected for a scholarship.
- Before the school starts, the awarded participants will receive an official invitation from the e-COST platform.
The grant includes travel support and daily allownce.
•The travel support is up to maximum 400€ for the long-distance travel expenses (>100km) from your location to the school venue and return. If actual cost isless than maximum, the exact amount spent will be reimbursed.
•The daily allowance (DA) is 160€ per day, for each day of the school, plus 100% of DA for arrival before the frist day and 40% of DA for departure after the last day of the school.
•The COST rules for reimbursement wil be applied.
Please notice: reimbursement will be provided after the school ends, which means that participants will need to pay in advance to be reimbursed afterwards.
