Big Science Business Forum 2022
BSBF 2022 was a business oriented congress which congregates the main European Research Infrastructures, focused on technology and with the aim to be the main meeting point between Research Infrastructures and industry.
This was the second edition of the event after the success of the previous edition in Copenhagen, where more than 1,000 participants from more than 500 organisations and 29 countries gathered together to discuss the future prospects of the Big Science Market.
BSBF 2022 Organisers
Host Organisers
CDTI - Innovation agency of the Ministry of Science and Innovation
MCIN - Ministry of Science and Innovation
CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
Big Science Organisations
CERN - The European Organization for Nuclear Research
EMBL - European Molecular Biology Laboratory
ESA - European space Agency
ESO - European Southern Observatory
ESRF - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
ESS - European Spallation Source
European XFEL - European X-Ray Free Electron Laser
FAIR - Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe
F4E - Fusion for Energy
ILL - Institut Laue-Langevin
SKAO - Square Kilometre Array
Industry Liaison Officers
PERIIA - The Pan-european Research Infrastructure ILO Association
BigScience.dk -Denmark ILO (BSBF2018 Organisers)
BigScience.nl - Netherland ILO
Conference documentation
BSBF2022 Procurement Handbook
You can download the BSBF2022 procurement handbook here: Procurement handbook
BSBF2022 Presentations
Plenary I - The investment potential of Europe's Big Science Market
Plenary II - How to do business with Big Science Organisations
| CDTI - Roberto Trigo |
A1 - Electrical, power electronics, electromechanical and RF systems
| CERN - Alessandro Masi | CERN - Stefano Bertolasi | CERN - Oliver Brunner | ESA - Piero Angeletti |
| ESS - Morten Jensen | FAIR - Harald Klingbeil | F4E - Franceco Paolucci | IO - Ivone Benfatto |
A2 - Affiliated Big Science Organisations (ABSOs) I
| Introducción - Javier Echavarri | CTAO - Wolfgang Wild | EST - Miguel Núñez Cagigal | BSC - Sergi Girona |
| LEAPS - Caterina Biscari | LEAPS - Michele Svandrlik | LEAPS - Elke Plönjes-Palm |
A3 - Diagnostics and detectors, sensors, optics and instruments
| OVERVIEW - Luca Stringhetti | SKAO - Luca Stringhetti | ESO - Samuel Leveque | CERN - Ray Veness |
| F4E - glenn Counsell | European XFEL - Jan Grüenert | ESA - Evridiki Ntagiou | ESS - Andreas Jansson |
A4 - Information and communication technologies
B1 - EU Policy for Research Infrastructures - Opportunities for Industry
| ESFRI - Patricia Postigo | EC - Patricia Postigo | CERN - Mauritzio Vretenar |
| ET - Mario Martínez | VDL - Miranda Van den Berg | ENRIITC - Anne Charlotte Joubert |
B2 - Industrial Opportunities for IFMIF-DONES
| EUROFUSION - Tony Donne | CIEMAT - Joaquín Sánchez | DONES - Angel Ibarra |
| CIEMAT - Daniel Cano | F4E - Philippe Cara | UGR - Enrique Herrera |
B3 - Basic material technologies and advanced manufacturing techniques
| Introducción - Mauro Morandin | OVERVIEW - Ignacio avilés Santillana | ESA - Thomas Rohr |
| European XFEL - Joachim Schulz | F4E - Stefan Wikman | CERN - Ignacio Avilés Santillana |
B4 - Complex building construction and its safety related systems
| ESS - Peter Jacobsson | F4E - Laurent Schmieder | CERN - Luz anastasia Lopez Hernandez & Pierre Ninin |
| ESA - Aline Decadi | ESRF - Alvaro Ruiz-Baillon | ILL - Giuliana Manzin |
C1 - High precision and large mechanical components
C2 - Instrumentation, control and CODAC
| Introducción - Carol Watts | CERN - Alessandro Masi | ESA - Agustín Fernández León | ESO - Jochen Haucke |
| European XFEL - Steve Aplin | F4E - Filippo Sartori | IO - Mikyung Park |
C3 - Cryogenics, vacuum and leak detection technologies
C4 - SME Involvement and Key Aspects for Procurement
D1 - Affiliated Big Science Organisations (ABSOs) II
| Introducción - Toon Verhoeven | DTT - Francesco Romanelli | MYRRHA - Hamid Aït Abderrahim |
| ESS Bilbao - Mario Pérez | TIARA - Jose Manuel Pérez |
D2 - Superconductivity and superconducting magnets
| Introducción - Fredrik Engelman | OVERVIEW - Andrzej Siemko | European XFEL - Sara Casalbuoni |
| FAIR - Christina Roux | CERN - Andrzej Siemko |
D3 - Career opportunities and pathways in the Big Science market
| CERN - Jose Miguel Jiménez | ESA - Lucy Van Der Tas | F4E - Leonardo Biagioni | UPM - Guillermo de Arcas |
| UGR - Blanca Biel | ENSA - María Vega | IPP - Miguel Astrain | ATTRACT - Pablo García Tello |
D4 - Remote handling systems
| CERN - Roberto Rinaldesi | ESO - Ronald Guzman | European XFEL - Joachim Schulz |
| FAIR - Christos Karagiannis | F4E - Carlo Damiani | IO - Jim Palmer |
Technology Transfer Proposals
Technology transfer was pivotal to BSBF2022. The following proposals were discussed in open meetings and are available for further discusssion:
Basic material technologies and advanced manufacturing techniques
Leading Enterprises: Beryllium Machining (See proposal)
F4E: Keep fusion cool (See proposal)
FAIR: GreenIT Cube / Digital Open Lab (See proposal)
F4E: New electron beam welding technology for very large structures assembly (See proposal)
F4E: Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics for highly integrated electronic devices (See proposal)
F4E: Innovative material to outperform natural diamond properties (See proposal)
F4E: Glass-to-Metal Seals for hermetic interconnexions (See proposal)
F4E: Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) joining of similar and dissimilar materials (See proposal)
F4E: A metallurgical bonding technique by diffusion at the atomic level for the solid assembly of similar and dissimilar materials (See proposal)
CERIC: Graphene for water in Life Sciences (See proposal)
Jagiellonian University in Krakow/CERIC: Atomically precise surface cleaning (See proposal)
Cryogenics, vacuum and leak detection technologies
European XFEL - A new technology for the successful assembly of all flange components (See proposal)
F4E - New piezo motor for thermal vacuum enviroments (See proposal)
Jagiellonian University in Krakow: Method of application of liquids on an object in a vacuum system and vacuum system for application of liquids on an object (See proposal)
Information and communication technologies
CERN: Withe rabbit Technology (See proposal)
EtherCAT: EtherCAT: the Ethernet Fieldbus (See proposal)
European XFEL: Virtual reality for training in high tech industry (See proposal)
T-Systems: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) (See proposal)
Clomplex building construction and its safety related systems
CERN: Robotics platforms and software for specialized interventions in harsh enviroments (See proposal)
ESA: European Crew Personal active Dosimeter (EuCPAD) (See proposal)
F4E: Multi-layered Shielded Cabinet for Electronics in harsh enviroments (See proposal)
F4E: Simple vision software for harsh enviroments (See proposal)
F4E: New digital hydraulic valve for more reliable, accurate and efficient motion control (See proposal)
MAGICS: Radiation hardened integrated circuits capable of resisting high radiation enviroments (See proposal)
Diagnostics and detectors, sensors, optics, instruments
CERN: Singular Light: Integrated Single-Mode Laser Converter (See proposal)
ESO: Blackbody Calibrator (See proposal)
ESA: Method for Measuring and Viewing a Wave Surface using Spectrophotometry (See proposal)
FAIR: RoSEN - Investigation and Visualization of Multidimensional Data (See proposal)
F4E: High-precision dimensional inspections (See proposal)
F4E: Inspecting components with a micro margin of error 25 times thinner an A4 page (See proposal)
F4E: High-resolution Fiberoptic Encoder (See proposal)
F4E: HIT-Housing Inspection Tool (See proposal)
Magic Eye: Collision Avoidance with ILT (See proposal)
Electrical, power electronics, electromechanical, RF systems
CERN: Powerful Digital Controls for high stability power supplies (See proposal)
ESS: Consultancy on Power Converters for Big Science facilities (See proposal)
ESS: High Voltage Pulsed or DC Power Supplies for RF amplifiers (See proposal)
ESRF: Hot Swap (See proposal)
ESRF: RF Fingers (See proposal)
CRISA - AIRBUS DS: GaN (Gallium Nitride) devices in power electronics (See proposal)
F4E: Advanced low level RF system for IRMIF and LIPAc particle accelerators (See proposal)
High precision and large mechanical components
F4E: Predicting the effects of welds in massive pieces (See proposal)
Instrumentation, control CODAC
ESRF: Tango Controls (See proposal)
Remote handling systems
TISICS: Ultralight MMC robotics (See proposal)
EMBL: EasyGrid (See proposal)
ESA: Hand controller device (See proposal)
F4E: Adaptable Remote Handling Diagnostics Tool (See proposal)
European XFEL: System for full remotely controllable manipulation of X-ray beam (See proposal)
Other technology areas
EMBL: cryoEMgrids (See proposal)
FAIR: Ion-Track Membranes and Nanostructured Electrodes (See proposal)
FHP Lda.: RFMLI 2 (See proposal)
F4E: Cost effective electromagnetic analysis (See proposal)
F4E: Cost effective robot software ready to market (See proposal)
BSBF Summary Video
BSBF2022 Webinars
Prior to the event, a series of webinars were organised dealing with different topics to the Big Science market, the European Research Infrastructures (RI) and the BSBF2022 itself:
- 1st BSBF Webinar - Covid-19 Pandemic: Impact and Measures on the Big Science Market
- 2nd BSBF Webinar - Big Science Organisations Strategic Plans, 2020-21 Procurements and Flagship Projects (Day 1) (Day 2)
- 3sd BSBF Webinar - How Industry and Research Infrastructures can innovate the Big Science Market: the BSBFTechnology Transfer Track
- BSBF Webinar Miniseries - Episode #1: Strategic view, roadmaps and development programmes of astronomy research infrastructures
- BSBF Webinar Miniseries - Episode #2: Fusion: Strategies, roadmaps and development programmes
- BSBF Webinar Miniseries - Episode #3: High-Energy Accelerators and Synchrotrons: strategies, roadmap and development programmes
- BSBF Women in Big Science Webinar