Placing the ESS in Lund means placing it in a strong scientific environment. Lund not only hosts Scandinavia’s largest university, but also the Ideon Science Park with more than 250 innovation-based start-up companies, the synchrotron facility at MAX-Lab and the brand new Biomedical Centre. Just to mention a few.

A view over the notheast of Lund

The fast-growing transnational Medicon Valley, with a large number of biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, is among the top-ranked biotech clusters in the world.

 

  • Strong scientific community.
  • Excellent international research.
  • Twelve universities and several major research facilities within the Copenhagen/Öresund Region.
  • 10 000 scientists and 140 000 university students.
  • Large number of research-based companies within life science, telecom and ICT, food technology, environment – all fields of research that will draw benefits from the research done at the ESS.