Congratulations on Vinnova Competence Centre funding
NEXT - NEutron and X-ray science for industrial Technology transitions - will co-create materials innovations for enabling sustainable industry transitions – using large scale neutron and synchrotron infrastructures (LSIs) as an enabling technology.
Vinnova announced here in September 2023 the 11 new Competence Centres it will fund in the period 2024-2028 for enabling Digital or Sustainable Industry transformations. One of these was NEXT - NEutron and X-ray science for industrial Technology transitions.
The NEXT Competence Centre will co-create materials innovations for enabling sustainable industry transitions – using large scale neutron and synchrotron infrastructures (LSIs) as an enabling technology.
When co-creating innovations, the application for the NEXT Competence Centre motivated the need to also simultaneously shape LSI methodologies: streamlined LSI methodologies is important for enabling more straightforward use of LSIs in research processes - providing the basis for increasing the pace of future innovations.
The NEXT consortium comprises KTH Royal Institute of Technology (coordinator), Chalmers University of Technology, DVel, DESY, European Spallation Source ERIC, Excillum, Freemelt, GKN Aerospace, Hitachi Energy Sweden, Linköping University, Outokumpu Stainless, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sandvik Coromant, Sandvik Mining, Scania Group, Scatterin, Seco Tools, Siemens Energy, Swerim, Thermo-Calc Software, VBN Components and Walter Tools. The NEXT application also had support from MAX IV Laboratory and Jernkontoret as well as the established Vinnova supported competence centres Cam2 and FunMat II.