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ESS Director General Helmut Schober stands to the left of the King of Sweden, French President Emmanuel Macron, Swedish Minister of Education Mats Persson and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström, by a red carpet outside the shiny glass office buildings of ESS

VIP State Visit

ESS Director General welcomes the King of Sweden, French President Emmanuel Macron, Swedish Minister of Education Mats Persson and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström.

Image: Ulrika Hammarlund/ESS

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Handshake Macron

Handshake Macron

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DG talk

DG talk

ESS Director General presenting ESS.

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Large room with wooden panelling, with smart standing tables with HRH The King of Sweden and His Excellency President Macron of France looking at ESS Director General who is speaking from the right

DG talk atrium

HRH The King of Sweden and His Excellency President Macron of France listening to ESS Director General Professor Helmut Schober speaking about ESS as a tool for scientific excellence and collaboration.

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President Macron is moving down a line to shake hands with 7 or 8 ESS staff members who are smiling at him

French handshake

A cohort of ESS's French staff members gathered to meet their President.

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ESS Technical Director Kevin Jones introduces the accelerator RFQ to the visitors, including Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström

Kevin RFQ

ESS Technical Director Kevin Jones introduces the Normal Conducting Linac RFQ (Radio Frequency Quadrupole) to the visitors, including Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström and Ola Barver, Aide-de-Camp to HM the King

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DG Helmut Schober in a tunnel with the accelerator on the right,  explains to HRH The King and President Macron about how a particle accelerator works

DG explains

DG Helmut Schober took the visitors into the accelerator tunnel and explained the principles of how it works and what it is for. 

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A view of many heads - reporters in the foreground, and the visitors including HRH The King of Sweden, President Macron and Swedish and French Ministers behind.

Tunnel view

HRH The King of Sweden, President Macron and Swedish Minister Mats Persson listen as Helmut Schober introduces the final ceremonial moments in the accelerator tunnel.

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Documents

Explore ESS - poster (English)

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Videos

What is ESS?

A short video explaining what the European Spallation Source (ESS) is, how it works and what it is for.

What will the ESS instruments do?

Why have 13 European countries teamed up to build a giant neutron microscope in the outskirts of Lund, Sweden? To study the smallest building blocks of the world around us, to gain a deeper understanding and to develop the materials needed in our future, sustainable society. Find out more in this video.

Science with neutrons

What are neutrons and why will we use them at ESS? Because neutrons have special properties making them a powerful tool for science. Find out more in this short video.

We will change the world

Come change the world with us.

CREDIT: ESS

Texts, Drugs and Dinosaurs - Neutrons Show the Way

How has science changed our lives? How will neutrons help us meet the challenges of the future? And what's it like to work in an international science facility under construction? This talk will take you on a trip through archaeology, life science and magnetism, and end up at a huge construction site.

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