Events
Upcoming events
Big Science Business Forum
We are organising the Big Science Business Forum in Maastricht, the last week of October.
The aim is to give you the opportunity in your home country to connect with 20 Big Science Organisations, large and small and find out in two days in direct conversations with them whether your competences are a match for their needs and to determine whether it is worthwhile to invest in a relationship with them and start bidding for contracts. In addition, there are over 200 companies from Europe, who have similar interests and could be potential partners for collaborations in these Big Science tenders.
Industry meeting on Optics @ Cosine
The last Industry meeting of the year, organised by BigScience.NL at Cosine. This edition, we focus on Optics and will inform companies about developments and opportunities at Big Science Organisations.
Please register here
Galleries
All galleries »
Videos
Challenges in Big Science?
Past events
ESA Industry Space Days 2026
ESA Industry Space Days 2026: record turnout, strong Dutch presence
The 12th ESA Industry Space Days (ISD) took place on 16-17 September 2026 at ESTEC in Noordwijk, and was the largest edition to date. Around 240 exhibitors and more than 3,000 participants attended, representing 1,500 companies from across the European space sector. Attendees pre-arranged over 10,000 pre-arranged business to business meetings, with many more face-to-face encounters on site. More than 50 presentations were delivered across three conference halls.
Industry Meeting: Sustainability in Big Science at HFML-FELIX
On 2 September, BigScience.NL brought together representatives from industry and research organisations at HFML-FELIX in Nijmegen for an industry meeting dedicated to sustainability. Marc Baldus, Director of HFML-FELIX and profile holder for sustainability within the Dutch NWO institutes, opened the meeting and set the stage for open and lively discussions on this important and timely topic.
SPIE 2026
Dutch Astronomical Instrumentation Community Shines at SPIE 2026 in Copenhagen
5–10 July 2026, Copenhagen, Denmark
The astronomical engineering world gathered in Copenhagen for SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, the leading international conference on ground-based, airborne, and space-based telescopes and the instruments that power them. The event drew more than 3,000 attendees from across the globe, who took part in 13 simultaneous technical conferences featuring over 3,000 presentations on the latest research, technology, and project developments in astronomical instrumentation.
