External visit of Zientzia Astea to the facilities of Zamudio

More than fifty people have visited this afternoon the facilities that the ESS Bilbao Consortium has in the Zamudio Technology Park, where they have been able to see first-hand the scientific and technological advances that the team of physicists and engineers are carrying to contribute to the project of the European Spallation Neutron Source (ESS). Scientific and technological infrastructure for the study of the largest materials currently being built in Europe.

ESS Bilbao together with the University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea and within the XVIII Edition of the Zientzia Astea, Week of Science, Technology and Innovation http://zientzia-astea.org/es/schedule/visita- al-ess-bilbao /, has organized this visit to scientific technology facilities to bring particle physics and neutron science and technology to society and make a pedagogical work on the relevance that this type of research has in our daily lives and it will have an impact on the welfare of society.

ESS Bilbao is a strategic center of international reference in acceleration of particles and neutron sciences and technologies that provides knowledge and added value through the contribution in kind to the project of the European Spallation Neutron Source (ESS).