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Five contenders expressed at the ESS- Bonn conference (May 2002) their interest to host the ESS:
- ESSS: The joint bid by Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian regional governments, laboratories and universities for a Swedish location: The ESS-Scandinavia consortium had expressed an interest to host the ESS facility in Lund in the cross boarder region between Sweden and Denmark, the so-called Øresund region. The ESS-Scandinavian initiative includes a broad range of universities, research institutes, the national neutron scattering societies, transnational organisations and the Region Skene and the City of Lund as members.
- The FZJ supported by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany: The Research Centre Jülich prepared the site-bid and proposed a site near to the Research Centre of Jülich, which lies in the so-called EUREGIO region, close to Belgium and the Netherlands. The State Parliament and the government of North Rhine-Westphalia backed up the proposal of Research Centre Jülich (FZJ).
- RAL/CCLRC: The interest expressed by the RAL in the UK. The CCLRC proposal for a site in Oxfordshire was backed up by the ISIS facility, one of the world leading spallation sources, at CCLRC's Appleton Rutherford Laboratory in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
- The joint offer from the German States of Sachsen and Sachsen-Anhalt: The governments of the States of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt had formed an inter-state, inter-ministerial working party, which was directed by the responsible ministries for economy, science and culture were jointly proposing a site between the cities of Halle and Leipzig in Eastern Germany to host the ESS. The regional and local authorities (Governmental committees of the cities of Leipzig and Halle), the agricultural development societies as well as scientists of universities, research institutions and the Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin were directly involved into the working party.
- YESS: The Yorkshire region in the UK: The White Rose University Consortium, which comprises the universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, and Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Developing Agency for Yorkshire and Humber, had prepared the Yorkshire site proposal jointly. The White Rose University Consortium proposed a site by Selby at Burn Airfield between the cities of Leeds and York in the region of North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
They have demonstrated the interest ESS represented for them. These were not hollow words: they were willing to invest considerable amounts of money and resources.
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