bsbf2018.org. On Friday 1 September 2018 12:00 CET, BSBF2018 opened its exhibition space registration and within15 minutes the exhibition space was sold out. BSBF2018 is overwhelmed with the interest from businesses and organisations interested in exhibiting at BSBF2018 and wish to thank everybody who has shown interest and requested an [...]
cern.ch. Today, an official ceremony marked the inauguration of the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL(link is external)), in Schenefeld-Hamburg, Germany. Extending over a distance of 3.4 km in tunnels departing from DESY in Bahrenfeld-Hamburg, it will generate ultrashort X-ray flashes at a rate of 27 000 per second with an intensity [...]
Eso.org. In ESOcast 124 ESO’s outgoing Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, gives us his thoughts and reflections on a decade at ESO. Over the last ten years ESO has consolidated its position as the world’s foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation. In this period of growth the organisation has seen the accession [...]
8till5.se. ESS i Lund blir Sveriges i särklass mest påkostade bygge. Men okunskapen är stor om European Spallation Source. Därför vill regeringens särskilda samordnare Lena Ek ge ESS ett tilläggsnamn: New Materials for Global Challenges. – Det är ganska mycket uppförsbacke att tala om en spallation source, säger hon. Både den [...]
Bilaga i Dagens industri 170629. ESS är den största forskningssatsningen någonsin i Sveriges historia. Samtidigt är den svenska forskning som använder neutronspridning begränsad. Därför satsar SSF 120 miljoner kronor för att bygga en forskarskola för neutronspridning. Läs mer i Dagens industris tryckta upplaga. Mer information om forskarskolan Swedness finns här.
Bsbf2018.org. Big Science Business Forum takes place in 26-28 February 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark. Registration, sponsorship and exhibition is now open! Big Science Business Forum 2018 will be the first one-stop-shop for European companies and other stakeholders to learn about Europe’s Big Science organisations’ future investments and procurements worth billions of euros. The forum will offer [...]
Eso.org. ESO has signed a contract with the German company Physik Instrumente GmbH & Co. KG, based in Karlsruhe, to construct the position actuators (PACTs) that will adjust the positions of the 798 hexagonal segments of the primary mirror of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). The segments that make up the [...]
European Commission (ec.eu). Today the European Commission has adopted a communication presenting the revised schedule and budget estimates for European participation in the ITER project. This international project aims to build in Europe a key facility for testing the possibility of generating sustainable energy from fusion. A new baseline for the project [...]
Event, June 27th in Brussels. Shaping the next Framework Programme. The world is changing fast. Will technology trade barriers rise? Will relations among Europe, the US, China, Russia and other powers be upended? Will research priorities change – for climate, energy, health, defence, maritime? All of these questions will force new strategies [...]
Vinnova.se. Mindre budget för forskning och innovation och minskad forskarrörlighet mellan länderna. Det kan bli resultatet när Storbritannien lämnar EU. Regeringen har gett Vinnova och Vetenskapsrådet i uppdrag att ta reda på vilka konsekvenser Storbritanniens utträde ur EU kan få för vårt innovations- och forskningssamarbete. En första bedömning av möjliga konsekvenser [...]