ESS Partner Countries and Partner Institutes

Twelve Founding Member Countries are involved with helping build ESS. Organisations and companies coming from these states can apply to contribute available Work Packages and Work Units. ESS is constantly seeking new partners in an effort to build innovation and research capacity in Europe, but also rest of the world. The countries and institutes are:

Sweden

• Lund University 
• Uppsala University

Denmark

• Aarhus University
• Copenhagen University
• Roskilde University
• Technical University of Denmark

Czech Republic

• Nuclear Physics Institute of the ASCR

Germany

• Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht
• Technical University Munich

France

• CEA Saclay
• CNRS Orsay
• Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB)

United Kingdom

• Cockcroft Institute (STFC)
• Daresbury Laboratory (STFC)
• Huddersfield University (STFC)
• Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory - Oxford, (STFC)
• Science and Technology Facilities Council - STFC
• UKAEA Culham (STFC)

Italy

• CNR, Rome
• Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste
• INFN, Catania
• INFN, Legnaro
• INFN, Milan

Estonia

• Tallinn Technical University
• University of Tartu

Hungary

• Atomki - Institute for Nuclear Research
• Centre for Energy Research, Budapest
• WIGNER Research Centre for Physics

Norway

• Bergen University
• Institute for Energy Research (IFE)
• Oslo University

Poland

• Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland, (NCBJ)
• IFJ PAN, Krakow
• Łódź University
• Polska Energetyczna Grupa - PEG
• Warsaw University of Technology
• Wroclaw University of Technology

Switzerland

• Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
• Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

Founding Observer Country Spain

• ESS Bilbao