Full house at Swedish Big Science Forum 2026 in Lund

Study visits att ESS and MAX IV

The forum took place at The Loop in Lund, located between the large European research facilities ESS and MAX IV. The programme began with study visits to the two facilities, before the conference officially opened at lunchtime with an exhibition and networking.

Lunch-to-lunch

During the two days, participants took part in technical seminars, company pitches, one-to-one meetings and networking sessions. A central meeting place was the Big Science Technology Exhibition, where Swedish companies, universities and research institutes showcased technologies and expertise alongside representatives from major European research infrastructures such as CERN, ESS, European XFEL, FAIR/GSI, Fusion for Energy, EISCAT and the European Solar Telescope.

A new feature this year was the opportunity for Swedish companies to present their expertise in short company pitches, which attracted a large audience.

Mini AIMday Big Science Technology

The programme concluded with the Mini AIMday Big Science Technology sessions, where companies and researchers worked together to address concrete technical challenges presented by MAX IV and IFMIF-DONES, with the aim of identifying innovative and commercially viable solutions.

An efficient meeting place

Many participants highlighted the forum as an efficient meeting place for connecting industry, research and international facilities.

Johannes Gutleber, senior researcher at CERN, commented after the event at Linkedin:

“Thanks to Big Science Sweden for organising this meeting. It is very effective to get in touch with many people from many different domains in a short amount of time. And most of all, I met super friendly people and had a lot of fun exchanging and creating new contacts. This creates a real community.”