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Plasma wakefield acceleration provides accelerating gradients orders of magnitude beyond conventional radio-frequency technology and is a promising approach for future particle physics accelerators.This talk reviews the current status of plasma-based accelerators, their challenges and highlights the first near-term applications that are becoming feasible, including compact accelerator stages, test facilities, and advanced light-source concepts. These early applications play a critical role in validating performance, reliability, and operational maturity. The presentation then addresses the pathway towards collider-relevant energies. Achieving energies beyond 10 GeV requires either staged plasma acceleration or proton-driven schemes enabling single-stage acceleration in long plasma sources. The status of international R&D programmes, technical readiness, and emerging collider parameter sets is shown.
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