NEXT in short
The new national competence centre, NEutron and X-ray science for industrial Technology transitions (NEXT), will co-create materials innovations for enabling sustainable industry transitions – using large scale neutron and synchrotron infrastructures (LSIs) as an enabling technology.
NEXT is a Vinnova supported national Competence Centre for Sustainable Industry.
NEXT plans ambitious research and innovation collaborations involving universities, research institutes, research infrastructures and industry. With a budget of over SEK 100 million, collaborative research will co create solutions to sustainable industrial transformation challenges in the field of sustainable materials – using large-scale research infrastructures (LSIs) as an enabling technology.
Collaborative research will also simultaneously shape LSI methodologies: streamlining LSI methodologies is important for enabling more straightforward use of LSIs in research processes. This is important because LSIs are a powerful tool for innovation. However, they are currently too complex to use. By also streamlining LSI methodologies, the NEXT consortium intends to enable more use of LSIs as well as increase the pace of future innovations.
The NEXT consortium comprises 24 partners, is coordinated by KTH Royal Institute of Technology and supported by Vinnova.