APPEC Tech Forum Vacuum & Cryogenics Industry meets Academia
24-11-2025 - 26-11-2025
Monday 24 November 11:30 – Wednesday 26 November 17:00, 2025
Sint-Janskerk, Vrijthof 24, 6211 LD Maastricht, NL
European physicists in astroparticle physics as well as in neighbouring fields are planning the next generation of experiments to be built within the next decade. The success of the projects in direct dark matter detection, low energy neutrino physics, neutrino properties, gravitational wave detection as well as related accelerator-based experiments in particle and nuclear physics highly depends on challenging technologies in the domain of vacuum and cryogenics.
For a thorough planning of all stakeholders it is important to carefully elaborate the timing of the projects and their needs as well as the market availability of key products. The APPEC Technology Forum is organized jointly with the international union of vacuum societies IUVSTA, national vacuum societies from the Netherlands and Germany, Maastricht University, NIKHEF and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to identify synergies between projects from neighbouring fields. It shall provide a discussion forum for companies, project scientist and funding agencies to define future ways of boosting cooperation to the benefit of all stakeholders.
Registration and event information is available at https://indico.cern.ch/event/1514758/. You can also indicate, if you are interested in presenting a poster for your experiment, or if you would like to present products and information about your company.
At the end of the meeting we offer a visit to ET-Pathfinder, a R&D facility for the development and testing of technologies for the next generation gravitational wave observatory, the Einstein Telescope.
More upcoming events
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.
CERN webinar on Electromechanical Power Supply Equipment
On Wednesday 15 October 2025, CERN will organise an online thematic industrial event that will concern Electromechanical Power Supply Equipment.
The event aims to target suppliers from CERN Member and Associate Member States with particular focus on those with capability in the design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of:
• Power transformers
• Busbars and racks
• Circuit breakers
• Switchgear
• Disconnectors
• Distribution panels and assemblies
• Other low- and medium-voltage supply components
• Etc.
Brainport Industries Campus Eindhoven
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Companies are welcome to get to know the BigScience.NL network of Industrial Liaison Officers and multiple Big Science Organisations. Several companies will share insights into their experiences working with Big Science Organisations, showcasing the opportunities and the challenges such projects may entail.
We will end the industry meeting with networking drinks and the opportunity to further connect with the ILO’s.