Abstract :
The 8th European Workshop on Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems, RADECS 2008, was held September 10–12, 2008 at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. The venue took place at the University´s Agora Building locating close to the Alba hotel, where most of the attendees were accommodated. The host of the event was the Department of Physics and its Industrial Applications group served as the organizer. The group runs the Radiation Effects Facility, RADEF, in the Department´s Accelerator Laboratory.