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New office will maximise Sweden’s benefit from ESS and MAX IV
The Swedish Research Council and Vinnova have set up a joint office to coordinate national inputs to the research facilities ESS and MAX IV in Lund. The office has been set up at the request of the Swedish Government, and will work towards maximising…
Big Science Sweden Conference 2020
Are you one of the many who had been looking forward to gathering new momentum at the BSBF2020 in Granada… only to find it has been postpone…
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Big Science facilities to which Swedish companies can supply equipment and services
Facilities for which Sweden provides funding
Particle fysics
Accelerator complex with a focus on particle physics. Geneva, on the border between Switzerland and France
Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (under construction). Darmstadt, Germany
RADIATION FACILITIES
Synchrotron radiation. Lund, Sweden
Synchrotron radiation. Grenoble, France
Synchrotron radiation. Hamburg. Germany
X-ray Free Electron Laser. Hamburg, Germany
FUSION RESEARCH
Facility for testing technology, materials, and physics regimes necessary for commercial production of fusion energy (under construction) Cadarache, France. Global project with European procurement office in Barcelona, Spain – F4E (Fusion for Energy).
GROUND-BASED SPACE RESEARCH
Chile; development and procurement in Munich, Germany
Kiruna, Sweden
Construction planned in South Africa and Australia (under negotiation)