First Business Day at ESS

On the 7th June, twelve Italian companies visited ESS to meet Procurement, In-kind and Research representatives in a one-day event in Lund.

The event is part of ESS engagement with the private sector and with Industrial Liaison Officers (ILO) in the member states.

Welcomed by Allen Weeks, ESS Head of Communications, External Relations and In-Kind Contribution, the companies learnt more about how to do business with ESS, its procurement rules (Meredith Shirey, Head of Supply, Procurement and Logistics) and business opportunities related to IK collaboration (Gábor Németh, Head of In-Kind Contribution Management).

ESS Head of Accelerator, Mats Lindroos, provided a detailed overview of ESS In-Kind partnerships with Italian universities and research institutes.

“This was the first visit of Italian Companies to ESS with the objective to present their know-how and competencies of interest for the ESS project,” says Italian ILO Sandro Centro, professor at the University of Padua.  “Possibly, according to the ESS management, a future visit of a different set of Italian Companies can be envisaged.”

In the second part of the meeting, companies presented to an audience of ESS accelerator and target experts their main areas of expertise and their portfolio of projects with other European research infrastructures.