On 27th October 2021, members of the NanoWorldMaps consortium from half a dozen European countries held their 3rd annual meeting 2021 (online). After hearing about recent progress in large area nanoscale correlative microscopy applied to 3D images of tissue samples, the focus of the meeting was on detailing the consortium’s vision for a new European Research Infrastructure. It was decided that a proposal will be made to the next opportunity under Horizon Europe for „Research Infrastructure Concept Development“ in April 2022 (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01-01).

Delegates were also pleased to learn that the NanoWorldMaps concept is now mentioned in the Italian research infrastructure roadmap.