In-Kind Contributions

An in-kind model on the scale of the European Spallation Source has never been attempted in a European Big Science project, and it will serve as a model for such projects in the future.

Who is building ESS?

ESS is working with more than 40 European partner institutions, and more than 130 collaborating institutions worldwide under the in-kind model.

With the In-kind model, partners (on behalf of their national governments) supply equipment, design documentation, personnel or other services to support the construction of ESS. Once completed and accredited, these In-Kind Contributions (IKCs) count, alongside direct financial contributions, towards the overall contribution from a particular member country. The model ensures that key technologies are cultivated and enhanced in member states supporting national institutes and industry. IKCs help foster the political goodwill and collaboration required for large international projects.

As the success of ESS to a great extent depends on schedule performance, in-kind agreements are on the critical path. In total, about 30% of the €1 843 M ESS construction cost will be supplied through IKCs. In particular, significant parts of the scientific instruments, the Target Station, and the Accelerator will be delivered as IKCs.

As of the end of 2019, ESS had nearly €450 million signed in-kind agreements, and an additional €100 million in contributions at various stages of agreement. The total of €550 million represents more than 210 contracts with ESS partner institutions. This is a testament to the collective vision and drive of all the ESS stakeholders to provide Europe with the next generation of truly scientific infrastructure.

IKC Agreements

These are the In-Kind Contribution (IKC) Agreements that have so far been signed between ESS and its Partners. The agreements listed here have been approved by the ESS In-Kind Review Committee and the ESS Council, representing a total of

€238 136 341

Click on the categories below to see the respective IKC Work Package list.

Ref.	Country	IKC Partner	Work Package Description	Status	Cost Book Value (kEUR)	Partner Contact
AIK 2.1	Italy	Elettra	Linac Magnets	Approved	6 785.00	Riccardo Fabris
AIK 3.4	France	CEA	Radio-Frequency Quadrupole	Approved	8 710.00	Santo Gammino
AIK 3.5	Italy	INFN Catania	Ion Source and Low- Energy Beam Transport	Approved	4 543.00	Luigi Celona
AIK 3.6	Italy	INFN Legnaro	Drift-Tube Linac with BPMs, BCMs	Approved	16 761.00	Andrea Pisent
AIK 4.1	France	CNRS	Spoke Cryomodules	Approved	17 451.00	Sébastien Bousson
AIK 5.1	France	CEA	Elliptical Linac H-ECCTD, High Beta Elliptical cavities and cryomodule demonstrator	Approved	4 294.00	Pierre Bosland
AIK 5.2	France	CEA	Elliptical Cryomodules Components Supply	Approved	38 618.00	Pierre Bosland
AIK 5.3	France	CEA	Elliptical Cryomodules Engineering and Assembly	Approved	19 395.00	Pierre Bosland
AIK 5.5	France	CEA	Technical assistance in installation and commissioning of the medium and high beta cryomodules	Approved	600.00	Pierre Bosland
AIK 5.6	Italy	INFN Milano	Medium Beta Elliptical Cavities, Fabrication and Testing	Approved	11 150.00	Paolo Michelato
AIK 6.1	Poland	NCBJ	Gamma Blockers	Accredited	136.84	Karol Szymczyk
AIK 7.1	France	CEA	Emittance Measurement Unit for the low energy beam transport	Accredited	311.00	Pierre Bosland
AIK 7.2	France	CEA	Beam Diagnostics (Doppler Shift Measurement for Low-Energy Beam Transport)	Accredited	78.00	Frank Senee
AIK 7.3	France	CEA	Non-invasive profile monitor	Approved	1 549.39	Jacques Marroncle
AIK 7.4	Italy	Elettra	Wire Scanner Acquisition	Approved	563.00	Mario Ferianis
AIK 7.6	Norway	University of Oslo	Beam Diagnostics Imaging Systems	Approved	2 041.00
AIK 7.9	France	CEA	Neutron beam loss monitor	Approved	1 180.00	Thomas Papaevangelou
AIK 8.2	Poland	PEG	LLRF System Units	Approved	4 877.00	Krzysztof Czuba
AIK 8.4	Hungary	Atomki	RF Local Protection System	Approved	2 200.00	Beata Kiraly
AIK 8.6	Poland	IFJ PAN	RF Installation Phase 1 and Phase II	Approved	6 156.00	Dariusz Bocian
AIK 8.7	Poland	Warsaw UT	Phase-Reference Line	Approved	1 200.00	Krzysztof Czuba
AIK 10.1	Poland	IFJ PAN	Manpower for cryomodule tests in Lund	Approved	5 724.00	Dariusz Bocian
AIK 11.1	Poland	Wroclaw UT	Cryogenic distribution line, elliptical linac and test stand	Approved	6 650.00	Jaroslaw Polinski
AIK 11.2	France	CNRS	Cryogenic Distribution Line; Spoke Linac	Approved	2 448.00	Patxi Duthil
AIK 11.3	Poland	Wroclaw UT	Cryogenic distribution line, test stand	Approved	540.00
AIK 14.1	Norway	Bergen University	Ion source expert	Accredited	216.00	Dieter Röhrich
AIK 17.1	Estonia	Tallinn University of Technology	Design, Development and Experimental Evaluation of the High Voltage Power Converter Module for IOT Modulator	Accredited	50.00
AIK 17.2	Italy	Elettra-INFN	Power Converters for Magnets to the ESS Linac	Approved	2 580.00	Roberto Visintini
AIK 17.3	Poland	IFJ PAN	Power Converter Systems of the ESS Linac Project (PC Installation Phase I & II)	Approved	664.20	Dariusz Bocian
AIK 17.7	Italy	Elettra-INFN	Spoke RF Power Stations	Approved	19 451.00	Cristina Pasotti
			ACCSYS TOTAL		€186,922,430

Ref.	Country	IKC Partner	Work Package Description	Status	Cost Book Value (kEUR)	Partner Contact
IIK 01	France	CEA	Controls for ESS warm linac Proton Source and LEBT	Approved	850.00	Françoise Gougnaud
IIK 05	France	CEA	Controls for RFQ	Approved	768.00	Françoise Gougnaud
IIK 14.3.2 #2	Norway	IFE	Alarms Management	Accredited	143.00
IIK 14.3.2 #3	Norway	IFE	Client software development for the integrated control system (Logbook and Alarms)	Approved	281.00
IIK 14.4 #6	Switzerland	PSI	Digital Controller Board Development	Approved	4 004.70	Markus Janousch
IIK 14.4 #8	Estonia	Tallinn University of Technology	EPICS EtherCAT driver/slave development	Approved	564.00
IIK 14.4.2 #3	Estonia	Tallinn University of Technology	FPGA IOC	Approved	450.00
IIK 14.4.3 #1	Poland	Łódź University of Technology	IPMI EPICS BLM & RTM Software and Firmware Development	Approved	450.00
IIK 14.5	Switzerland	ZHAW	Machine Protection and Personnel Safety Core Components	Approved	2 700.00	Christian Hilbes
IIK 14.7.1	Norway	IFE	Main Control Room Conceptual Design	Accredited	250.00
IIK 14.7.1 #2	Norway	IFE	Control Room Stage 2 Design	Approved	485.00
IIK 14.7.1 #3	Norway	IFE	Control Room Stage 3 Implementation	Approved	465.00
IIK 14.7.2 #1	Norway	IFE	Server and Storage	Approved	700.00
IIK 14.7.3 #1	Estonia	Tallinn University of Technology	Cybersecurity assessment, development, training & Risk Assessment	Approved	150.00
IIK 14.7.3 #2	Norway	IFE	ICS Network	Approved	1 529.00
IIK 14.10.5 #1	Italy	INFN-Legnaro	DTL Control Systems	Approved	480.00	Andrea Pisent
IIK 17.3.2 #1	Norway	IFE	ICS Logbook management	Accredited	122.00
			ICS TOTAL		€14,391,704

Ref.	Country	IKC Partner	Work Package Description	Status	Cost Book Value (kEUR)	Partner Contact
NIK 2 #4	Hungary	Wigner	Miracles at ESS: Optimisations of the back-end of the backscattering instrument	Accredited	14.00
NIK 3 #1	Estonia	Tartu University	Set-Up for Laser-Neutron Pump-Probe Experiments	Accredited	196.00
NIK 3.3 #2	Estonia	Tartu University	Radiological Materials Glove Boxes for Neutron Scattering Experiments	Approved	70.00	Heisi Kurig
NIK 3.5 #1	Norway	Bergen University	DEMAX - Macromolecular Crystallisation	Accredited	305.00	Petri Kursula
NIK 3.6 #2	Estonia	Tartu University	Gas Handling Systems	Approved	400.00	Heisi Kurig
NIK 3.6 #3	Estonia	Tartu University	Laser pump probe follow project LLP 2 (Laser Pump Probe 2)	Approved	91.00
NIK 3.6 #4	Estonia	Tartu University	Humidity chamber for neutron SANS measurements	Approved	120.00	Heisi Kurig
NIK 3.6 #5	Estonia	Tartu University	Stopped flow Unit for neutron SANS measurements	Approved	120.00	Heisi Kurig
NIK 4 #1	Switzerland	PSI	Experimental Control Software	Approved	748.80	Mark Koennecke
NIK 4 #4	Switzerland	PSI	Data Curation	Approved	654.00	Stephan Egli
NIK 4 #5	Switzerland	PSI	Data Analysis & Modelling Software for Imaging	Approved	470.83
NIK 4 #11	Germany	Forschungszentrum Jülich	Data Analysis & Modelling (FZJ)	Approved	791.00	Joachim Wuttke
NIK 5.3 #5	Germany	Forschungszentrum Jülich	Test Package for Linear Motion Technology	Approved	331.00	Klauss Bussmann
NIK 5.3 #8	Hungary	Wigner	Secondment of a Motion Control Engineer (HU)	Approved	187.80
NIK 5.3 #10	Germany	Forschungszentrum Jülich	Robotics Sample Changer Platform	Approved	466.00	Klauss Bussmann
NIK 5.4 #5	Hungary	Center for Energy Research	Optimisation of signal to background ratio for neutron detectors	Accredited	75.00	Szabina Török
NIK 5.4 #10	Hungary	Center for Energy Research	Detector simulation effort	Approved	60.00	Szabina Török
NIK 5.4 #11	Norway	IFE	Test experiments with neutron instruments at the Jeep II reactor and contribution to the ESS Test beamline team	Approved	230.00	Bjørn C. Hauback
NIK 6.4 #3	France	LLB	NMX Detector Positioning Robot, Preliminary Study	Accredited	56.40	Jean-Luc Ferrer
NIK 6.4 #4	Hungary	Wigner	NMX Chopper system	Approved	357.00
NIK 6.4 #5	Hungary	Wigner	Secondment of a mechanical engineer to support the NMX Instrument Design effort	Accredited	182.80
NIK 6.4 #6	Hungary	Wigner	NMX Neutron Optics Engineering Design	Approved	55.00
NIK 6.4 #8	Hungary	Center for Energy Research	NMX Shielding System	Approved	160.00	Szabina Török
NIK 6.4 #9	Hungary	Wigner	NMX Control System  Architecture Study	Accredited	46.00
NIK 6.4 #10	Hungary	Wigner	Secondment of an instrument scientist to support the NMX Instrument Construction effort	Approved	80.00
NIK 6.6 #2	Czech Republic	UJF	Instrument BEER Phase I	Accredited	235.85
NIK 6.9 #1	Switzerland	PSI	Instrument ESTIA Phase I	Accredited	530.00	Artur Glavic
NIK 6.9 #2	Switzerland	PSI	Instrument ESTIA Phase II-IV	Approved	11 270.00	Artur Glavic
NIK 6.13 #3	Norway	IFE	Instrument HEIMDAL Phase I	Accredited	45.70
NIK 6.14 #4	Hungary	Wigner	Instrument BIFROST Phase I	Accredited	8.80	Rasmus Toft-Petersen
NIK 6.14 #5	Norway	IFE	Instrument BIFROST Phase I	Accredited	60.40	Rasmus Toft-Petersen
NIK 6.24 #1	Hungary	MTA Wigner	Secondment of a Mechanical Engineer	Accredited	27.68
NIK 13.3 #2	Estonia	Tartu University	Radiological Materials Glove Boxes for Neutron Scattering Experiments		70.00	Heisi Kurig
NIK 17.1	Estonia	Tartu University	Set-Up for Laser-Neutron Pump-Probe Experiments		196.00	Jörg Pieper
			NSS TOTAL		€16,956,060

Ref.	Country	IKC Partner	Work Package Description	Status	Cost Book Value (kEUR)	Partner Contact
TIK 2.2	Czech Republic	UJF	Target He Cooling System	Approved	5 590.00	Jakub Vyvadil
TIK 5.1	Czech Republic	UJF	Primary Water Cooling Systems	Approved	2 491.21	Jakub Vyvadil
TIK 5.2	Czech Republic	UJF	Intermediate Water Cooling Systems	Approved	2 588.78	Jakub Vyvadil
TIK 5.3	Czech Republic	UJF	TS HVAC	Approved	7 608.16	Jakub Vyvadil
			TARGET TOTAL		€18,278,150

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_{PHOTO: ESS Accelerator Ion Source and Low Energy Beam Transport Line at INFN-LNS (INFN)}

IKC Agreements

ACCSYS TOTAL

€186,922,430

ICS TOTAL

€14,391,704

NSS TOTAL

€16,956,060

TARGET TOTAL

€18,278,150

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