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Friday, 26 February 2010 10:00 |
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Friday 19 February the ESS Industry Day was held in Copenhagen, Denmark. More than 400 representatives from European business and industry took part and gained information about how to get involved in the construction of the ESS.
The European Spallation Source will be the world’s leading research centre for materials research and life science with neutrons. It will be built in Lund in southern Sweden.
The ESS Industry Day was held in order to provide general information to European business and industry about the opportunities to take part in the construction of ESS, and about the R&D possibilities once the ESS has been built.
The keynote speakers were Peter Honeth, State Secretary at the Swedish Ministry of Education and Science, Inge Maerkedahl, Director for the Danish Authority for Research and Innovation, and Juan Carlos Cortes, Director of Industry, in the Spanish Ministry of Science. They all pointed out the importance of European collaboration in the ESS project, and the importance of ESS for increasing European innovation and growth.
- We are very happy about the great interest from business and industry in this European flagship project. Most parts of the ESS technology will be highly advanced, and the construction will be a challenge for us, for partner countries and for industry, says Colin Carlile, Director of the ESS Secretariat.
- We have now been able to link to vital business and industry sectors, that will be important in the coming procurement process.
The ESS construction is costed at around 1,4 billion euros. Out of this, 45 % will be spent by the central ESS team in Lund, and 55 % by the participating partner countries, mainly through in-kind contributions.
- We need to liaise with industry now at this early stage so that European R&D-intensive companies will be able to fully exploit the scientific potential of the ESS, says Bob Cywinski, spokesperson for the ESS Preparatory Phase.
The ESS Industry Day has been financed by the ESS Preparatory Phase, a project within the EU framework program for research FP7. |
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Monday, 07 December 2009 13:38 |
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More than 100 international scientists took part in the ESS Workshop on particle and medical physics, concluded today. The participation exceeded the expectations, showing the very large interest for ESS as a unique research tool for fundamental physics.
The European Spallation Source will be the world’s most powerful research facility for investigation with neutrons. The scientific planning has already started in order to maximise the scientific opportunites at ESS ten years from now.
The aim of the workshop, held in Lund, Sweden, was to invite the global physics communities to identify the unique research opportunities that the ESS will provide within fundamental and medical physics.
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 11:44 |
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Scientific and technical representatives of the ESS teams in Scandinavia and Hungary have met to discuss methods of working together in order to implement the European Spallation Source project.
The discussion resulted in a statement in which the parties state that “Europe, and particularly the three site contenders for the ESS site, must now work together to set in place a plan of action to complete the foreseen Design Update and to proceed to the construction and operation of the ESS”.
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Monday, 21 September 2009 11:30 |
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The 15 September the fifth and final Round Table in order to create the conditions for the building of the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund ended successfully in Krakow. The Round Table conference resulted in broad and enthusiastic support from the participating countries.
- It is very satisfying to be able to arrive at this stage and to know that at least twelve countries will be participating when the Steering Committee meets for the first time in Copenhagen at the end of October, says Colin Carlile, Director of ESS Scandinavia. Their first task will be to launch the Preconstruction Phase and set in place the new organisation for realizing the decision to build the next generation neutron source in Lund.
Only countries agreeing on locating ESS in Lund and participating in the Design Update will be represented in the Steering Committee. So far twelve countries including Norway and Germany have agreed to participate in the project and several more have entered into discussions on participation.
In the Preconstruction Phase there will be a Design Update resulting in a cost assessment necessary for the final financial agreements made between the participants during next year. |
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Friday, 26 June 2009 10:09 |
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ESS Scandinavia is observing European Green Week by planting a tree as a symbol of the goal to realize the first climate neutral research center of its kind.
- It is important when you construct a facility this size that you always consider how to do it in an as environmentally friendly way as possible, says Professor Colin Carlile, Director of ESS Scandinavia.
- The goal is to achieve climate neutrality, and to manifest this goal we plant this tree today. At the same time we renew our partnership in Sustainable Energy Europe.
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