Introduction to the ESS Partner Day. Toon Verhoeven Industrial Liaison Officer for ESS Delft, March 12, 2014

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1 Introduction to the ESS Partner Day Toon Verhoeven Industrial Liaison Officer for ESS Delft, March 12,

2 ILO for ESS ILO: Industrial Liaison Officer In this function only since January 1, 2014 Member of the ESS-ILO network where each participating country is represented My personal background is in fusion energy research For > 30 years in fusion research For > 10 years playing the role of ITER-ILO Ir. A.G.A. Verhoeven Industrial Liaison Officer for ITER and ESS, the European Spallation Source Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) P.O. Box BE Nieuwegein The Netherlands or mobile: visitor's address: Edisonbaan 14, 3439 MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands Moving to the TU-campus in Eindhoven in

3 Programme of today We start with 3 questions: Why is the Dutch R&D enthusiastic about ESS? Why is ESS enthusiastic about Dutch participation? Why are Dutch companies enthusiastic about ESS? 3

4 Programme of today Starts with the first question: Why is the Dutch R&D enthusiastic about ESS? 10:30 Welcome Bert Wolterbeek, director Reactor Institute Delft 10:45 Introduction by the chairman of the ESS Partnerday Toon Verhoeven, Industrial Liaison Officer ESS 10:55 The importance of the ESS for R&D in the Netherlands Jeannette Ridder, Dutch Ministry of Education 11:05 The European Spallation Source and The Netherlands Nico Kos, Senior Manager (International) Innovation Programme NWO later on: 12:25 The Dutch in-kind contribution: present state and perspectives Katia Pappas, Head of the Neutron and Positron Materials research group, TU Delft 4

5 Second question: Why is ESS enthusiastic about Dutch participation? 11:35 ESS overview James Yeck, Chief Executive & Director General, ESS 12:00 Science at ESS / Instruments and Future Users how the Netherlands can be involved Dimitri Argyriou, Science Director, ESS 13:30 The Machine / The Accelerator Hakan Danared, Deputy Head of Accelerator Division, ESS 13:45 The Target Station John Haines, Head of Target Division, ESS 14:00 The In-Kind Contributions 14:15 Procurement and ILO Network Allen Weeks, Deputy Director of Project Support and Administration 5

6 Third question: Why are Dutch companies enthusiastic about ESS? 14:30 Presentations by Dutch Companies Ronald Dekker Cock Heemskerk HIT Hans Priem Victor Pastoor Hans Poolman Erwin Lenten Sander Kossen Demaco VDL-ETG Grontmij Amsterdam Scientific Instruments Imtech Het Huygens Huys (The house of Huygens) 6

7 15:50 Meet & Match After the presentations we have scheduled Meet & Match where all the persons who have given a presentation will be ready to have further discussions with the audience. This will be organised as follows: we will have high tables where people can stand around and where the speakers are divided in small groups in accordance with their expertise. Furthermore, tables are reserved for the ILO s and also for the RID experts, so they are ready to answer any questions, as well. 1) Dutch governance Bert Wolterbeek; Jeannette Ridder; Nico Kos 2) ESS science & Instr. James Yeck; Dimitri Argyriou 3) ESS machine Hakan Danared; John Haines 4) ESS business Allen Weeks; Ute Gunsenheimer 5) Dutch science at ESS Bruck Ekkes; Wim Bouwman 6) Dutch instrumentation at ESS Katia Pappas; Lambert van Eijck; Jeroen Plomp; Ad van Well 7) Het Huygens Huys Sander Kossen 8) HIT Cock Heemskerk 9) Imtech Erwin Lenten 10) Amsterdam Sc. Instr. Hans Poolman 11) Demaco Ronald Dekker 12) VDL-ETG Hans Priem 13) Grontmij Victor Pastoor 14) ILO s Rob Klopping; Toon Verhoeven 15) Organisation Andre Groenhof; Kirsten Soekhoe; Yvonne Weijgertse-Janssen 7

8 17:15 Summary and Closing Remarks Rob Klopping, Industrial Liaison Officers Network coordinator 17:30 19:00 Drinks reception & buffet During the entire day you can give Rob Klöpping input for his Summary and Closing Remarks With all this input Rob will try to come to a view on how to continue from today onward! During the day we will have computers available to check for EoI: Expression-of-Interest See also: 8

9 More information: New website in preparation: Have a good and interesting day! 9

Date: 1 May 2013. Call for Expressions of Interest. Dear Colleagues,

Date: 1 May 2013. Call for Expressions of Interest. Dear Colleagues, Date: 1 May 2013 Call for Expressions of Interest Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the European Spallation Source (ESS) is preparing to move into the construction phase. When Sweden and Denmark