Big Science Business Forum 2018
Save the date to Big Science Business Forum 2018: 27-28 February 2018 in Copenhagen
Below you can read about BSBF2018’s Affiliated Big Science organisations. They will all present their future investment and procurement plans in session A4 and B4 – Affiliated Big Science organisations I and II.
If you want to become an Affiliated Big Science organisation, please read our call for expression of interest and send us an application.
ALBA SynchrotronALBA is a third generation synchrotron light source located near the city of Barcelona in Spain. At the moment it runs a portfolio of eight beamlines, providing cutting-edge analytical tools to the scientific and industrial communities. With the prospect of hosting a total of ca. 20 beamlines, it is presently engaged in a gradual growth process, with three more beamlines in construction and plans to get approval for several more. Integrated in the European collaboration LEAPS, ALBA actively engages with public and industrial partners to generate knowledge and competitiveness with the ultimate goal of improving welfare of society at large.
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron – DESY is one of the world’s leading particle accelerator centres. Researchers use the large-scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its variety – ranging from the interaction of tiny elementary particles to the behaviour of innovative nanomaterials and biomolecules to the fundamental mysteries of the universe.
ELI – NP is one of the largest laser and gamma beam facilities in Europe and it has been funded since 2013 by the European Union. ELI-NP is located in the Magurele Physics Research Campus, in the south of Bucharest, Romania. The main purpose of ELI – NP is to achieve a series of new nuclear physics and applications only possible with these laser and gamma photon beams at unprecedented intensities. The laser beam will attain the peak power of 10 PW with the pulse width 20 fs resulting in the focused laser intensity higher than 1022 W/cm2. The gamma beam will attain 109 photons/s after the slit at the photon energy 19.5 MeV with better than 95% linear polarization. There will be more than 20 experimental setups using the two beams in 8 experimental areas.
ENEA is the name for Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development. It is an Italian research organization, with around 2700 staff employees distributed in its 9 research centers all over the national territory. The Agency’s activities are mainly focused on Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy Sources, Nuclear Energy, Climate and the Environment, Safety and Health, New Technologies, Electric System Research. ENEA’s multidisciplinary competences and great expertise in managing complex research projects are put at the disposal of the Country system. Specifically, its activities are devoted to: basic, mission-oriented, and industrial research exploiting wide-ranging expertise as well as experimental facilities, specialized laboratories, advanced equipment
FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, will provide particle beams with unprecedented intensity and quality. At its heart is a ring facility with a circumference of 1100 meters. A system of cooler-storage rings for effective beam cooling at high energies and various experimental halls will be connected to the facility. The existing GSI accelerators serve as a pre-accelerator. The FAIR facility will offer excellent research possibilities to scientists from all over the world, which reach from analysing the building blocks of matter to studying the processes in the universe.
MAX IV Laboratory is the Swedish synchrotron radiation facility and the largest investment in national research infrastructure ever made in Sweden. So far investments amount to Euro 430 million and will, by the time the facility is fully developed, have reached approx. Euro 600 million. MAX IV will have the highest quality of X-rays available to scientists from academia and industry in the whole world and these X-rays will be used to understand, explain and improve the world around us. They will enable the study of materials that we use today and improve them beyond the performance that we know. In addition, MAX IV will allow scientists to develop new materials and products that we cannot even imagine today, such as medications with better and more precise functions and fewer side-effects, nanoparticles for diverse areas of application, including paints, catalysis or computing, or lighter and stronger packaging materials for the future.
PSI is the largest research center for natural and engineering sciences within Switzerland and is recognized as the leading national laboratory hosting Switzerland’s unique world-class analytical large-scale research facilities. PSI develops, builds, and operates large-scale research facilities such as the Swiss Light Source (SLS), the SINQ neutron source, the SµS muon source, and the X-ray free electron laser SwissFEL. It performs cutting-edge research in three main areas: matter and materials; energy and environment; and human health. PSI is part of the ETH domain and employs 2100 people, with an annual budget of approx. 380 Mio CHF.
The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) has been working since several years on the design of a new multipurpose irradiation facility: Multipurpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications, better known as MYRRHA. This research facility will be the first demonstrator in the world of an accelerator driven system, abbreviated to ADS. The project consists in the creation in Mol (Belgium) of a large international research infrastructure in the field of nuclear sciences which will be used at least for the next 40 years. The project requires a total investment budget of 1.6 bn €2016 in 3 phases.
SKA Organisation is the private UK company responsible for the design phase of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an ambitious project to build a transformative radio telescope. During 2018, the partners of SKA will establish an intergovernmental organisation to assume responsibility for the construction and operation of the global observatory. Initial preparation for procurement activities will begin during 2018, and construction of the SKA1 facility expected to start in late 2019.
