Today European Spallation Source AB has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the research facility FRMII
Colin Carlile, Director of ESS AB and Prof. Winfried Petry, Director of the FRMII research facility in Bavaria today signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The agreement covers technological collaboration, as well as scientific cooperation in order to prepare for the future scientific opportunities at ESS, notably within energy research, life sciences, nano technology and materials for the mitigation of climate change effects.
-The agreement is an important element for securing that the ESS is developed in cooperation with the leading European scientific environments, says Colin Carlile. The ESS project can find much inspiration in Heinz Maier-Leibnitz courageous thinking. Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz FRMII takes part in the German initiative to participate in the realisation of the ESS. The agreement was signed, witnessed by two ministers, during a press conference today in the framework of a visit by the Bavarian Minister of Science Dr Wolfgang Heubisch to the Danish Minister of Science Charlotte Sahl-Madsen, together with several leading German scientists. ESS will be an advanced research facility for materials and life science. It will be co-hosted by Sweden and Denmark. The main facility will be built in Lund in southern Sweden, and the ESS Data Management Centre will be built in Copenhagen, Denmark. For the Öresund region, today’s agreement means that scientists in the Öresund region will get increased possibilities to cooperate with leading German scientists. The FRMII neutron source is a research facility associated to the Technische Universität München. Over 20 German scientific organisations are partners of the FRMII, among them Forschungszentrum Jülich, the Max Planck Society, the München University Hospital and ten other universities. FRMII is used for fundamental science as well as applied science within medicine, radiography, materials and molecular analysis. It is also used for clinical diagnostics and PET scanning.
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