News and Events

Outcomes of the Canadian roundtable on a national neutron strategy

Feb 3, 2021
Work Package 5.
The Canadian Neutron Initiative (CNI) has published a report summarising the outcomes of a roundtable meeting which brought together representatives of the Canadian scientific community at the end of 2020 in order to discuss key elements of a newly emerging national strategy for research with neutron beams.
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Industry and innovation at ESS

Jan 28, 2021
Work Package 4.
The year of 2020 was the year when the Industry and Innovation Work Package of BrightnESS² and the function itself took off at ESS. Several deliveries to the project and innovation ground work within the Organisation have successfully been executed.
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An emerging national neutron strategy in Canada

Jan 21, 2021
Canada.
The Canadian neutron beam community is aligning around an emerging strategy to rebuild Canadian capacity for materials research and development with neutron beams.
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Thrust mini-symposia on life sciences research

Jan 13, 2021
Mini-symposia series.
Our partners from South Africa, Necsa and iThemba LABS, are inviting you to participate in a mini-symposia on neutrons in life sciences research.
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RI Logistica Programme Committee established

Jan 12, 2021
Logistics.
The kick-off meeting of the RI Logistica Programme Committee took place on 14 December 2020.
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General Assembly approves project progress

Jan 12, 2021
General Assembly.
The third General Assembly of the BrightnESS² project took place online on 17 December 2020.
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Exploring the socio-economic impact of ESS

Dec 19, 2020
Impact.
Europe’s Research Infrastructures (RIs) play a critical role in delivering scientific breakthroughs and fostering innovation as the expected results of enabling science - this is part of the broader socio-economic impact that RIs like ESS offer to society.
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First meeting of the Industry Advisory Board of ESS

Dec 17, 2020
Industry.
With the support of BrightnESS², the European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS) has established an external Industry Advisory Board (IAB) for direct engagement with industry leaders and researchers.
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Neutrons Canada: neutrons.ca

Dec 13, 2020
New website.
Neutrons.ca has been recently secured as the future online home for Neutrons Canada, which is a new entity to be created by the Canadian Neutron Initiative (CNI) Working Group.
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The first virtual meeting of newly assigned ESS Internal Innovation Board

Dec 11, 2020
Innovation.
On December 7, 2020, the ESS Internal Innovation Board met for the first time. Following a general introduction, the question was asked: What is Innovation to you and how can we define it? To home in on an answer, the innovation DNA at ESS was discussed and with representatives from Human Resources, Communication, Technology, Project and Science, there were some excellent views and arguments. Diversity is fuel for innovation and there is plenty of both at ESS, the board members concluded.
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