Big Science

Big Science means groundbreaking fundamental research that is carried out in large international collaborations. This research requires expensive and technologically advanced research infrastructures.

This website is a portal to show the opportunities for Dutch industry to participate in Big Science, through collaborations with scientific institutes or to respond on tenders of the Big Science Facilities.

FME supports new Innovation fund

FME welcomes the new innovation fund for companies active in the domain of the 10 key-enabling technologies listed in the National Technoloy Strategy. The fund is aimed at those projects that have the potential to create products that will be exported. The fund should help innovative companies to cover investment risks to scale up to the point of stimulate the potential for the export.

Read the FME news item here

Dutch Fusion Day 2025: engage, explore and innovate

On Friday 9 May 2025, the second edition of the Dutch Fusion Day will take place in Eindhoven, organized by DIFFER, EIRES (TU/e) and ILO-net.

Technologieconferentie Big Science Business Forum 2026 naar Maastricht

Technologieconferentie Big Science Business Forum 2026 naar Maastricht 

BigScience.NL en de Belgische technologische brancheorganisatie Agoria halen BSBF2026 naar Maastricht

België en Nederland organiseren in oktober 2026 samen het zogenoemde Europese Big Science Business Forum (BSBF) in het MECC in Maastricht. Naar verwachting 1.000+ deelnemers vanuit toonaangevende hightechbedrijven ontmoeten Europese Big Science Organizations op deze conferentie om kennis te delen over hoogwaardige technologie en innovatie.

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ESO Extremely Large Telescope instrumentation webinar on October 1, 2025

Dear all,
 
I would like to invite you for the following webinar, which will take place on October 1, 2025, at 1:00 PM. 
 
Webinar organised for the ESO Member state industry suppliers to the Extreme Large Telescope (ELT) Instruments
We are excited to invite you to our upcoming ELT-Instrumentation Procurement Webinar on October 1st, 2025. This event is a follow-up to the successful ELT-Instruments-Information Day held in Geneva on April 7th, 2022, organised by the ESO Industrial Liaison Officers (ILOs) of the ESO member states.

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Get involved

You can register your company; you will then be put in contact with the ILO-net who can provide you with information about relevant Calls for Tender. You will also receive regular invitations to Big Science events. You can also register here for a page in the ILO-net company brochure.

Company brochure

The ILO-net issues a company brochure at the occasion of new events. As an example shown here is the brochure that was issued for the Dutch Precision Fair 2022.

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Research organisations

A few research organisations are highlighted below.
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ITER

CERN

CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research

ESFR

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility