  This document is submitted as input to the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024 by
three European members of the EIC Users Group Steering Committee (Vice Chair,
one at-large member, and the EU Representative). We submit the document on
behalf of the international EIC Users Group (EICUG) community, but we
specifically represent 335 European members of the EICUG (25%) based in 80
institutions (30% of the total) located in Armenia, Czech Republic, Finland,
France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. This
European involvement is an important driver of the EIC, but can also be
beneficial for a number of related ongoing and planned nuclear physics
experiments in Europe. In this document, the shared interest regarding
scientific questions and detector R&D between the EIC and European nuclear
physics communities is outlined. The aim is to highlight how these synergies
offer ample opportunities to foster progress at the forefront of nuclear
physics.
