
Partnerships & Collaborations
Thirteen Founding Member nations, around 40 European in-kind partners and more than 130 global institutions are all cooperating to build the world's next-generation neutron source.
As a large and advanced science facility, the European Spallation Source requires expert competences represented by professionals from all over the world. The technical design work already represents one of the largest and broadest European collaborations of its kind.
In-Kind Contributions
Many of our partner research institutes, universities, and laboratories are individually responsible for leading one or several work packages, each containing multiple work units, with leadership distributed among all participants. ESS's partners are actively engaged in scientific and technical research and development, manufacturing, delivery and installation in the project to build ESS. Around 30% of the project will be realised through in-kind contributions.
ESS Technical Design Collaborations
The ESS Technical Design Report (TDR) from April 2013 is the guiding document for the construction of ESS. It was developed over several years through a collaboration process including around 60 partner laboratories worldwide and the ESS staff in Lund. The work was organised into the Accelerator, Target Station, and Neutron Scattering Systems collaborations. The TDR, as well as the preceding Conceptual Design Report, can be found on our publications page.
Who Is Building ESS?
Follow the links for highlights from our ongoing technical and scientific collaborations around the world. National labs, universities, institutes and fellow Big Science facilities are all currently coordinating in the design, production and delivery of ESS's accelerator, target station, instruments, research labs, software, controls and other systems.
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Click here for a full list of in-kind and collaboration partners
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ESS @ SCK•CEN
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ESS @ IFJ PAN
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ESS @ Lund U
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ESS @ HZB
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ESS @ FZ-Jülich
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ESS @ STFC
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ESS @ IFE
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ESS @ INFN-LASA
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ESS @ CERN
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ESS @ IPN Orsay
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ESS @ UCPH
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ESS @ Uppsala
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ESS @ Tartu
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ESS @ Bilbao
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ESS @ IRFU
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ESS @ Linköping
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ESS @ NPI
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ESS @ HZG
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ESS @ Aarhus U
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ESS @ INFN
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ESS @ FZ-Jülich
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ESS @ LLB
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ESS @ J-PARC
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