ALBA Mission, the science educational project of ALBA Synchrotron, closes its 3th edition, which has counted with 225 registered schools, 364 teachers, 503 classroom groups and more than 10.000 students all around the country. Students and teachers have highly valued the impact of the project in their classrooms, both at a motivational and learning level. Moreover, this school-year offered four new experiments about light and its properties.
Check out the last annual report, covering the most remarkable activities of 2020. How ALBA faced the pandemic and kept giving service to the user community, a selection of science highlights, technology reviews and a brief summary of last year.
MINERVA will be the 13th beamline of the facility and will be used to support the development of the ATHENA mission, the Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics that will reveal new insights about hot and energetic universe. The beamline project started on March 2020, the final beamline design has been approved today and it is to be ready to start operating in 2022.
The user community of the ALBA Synchrotron is called to participate in a webinar session next 30th of June 2021 from 09:30 to 16:05h, where the ALBA II project will be presented in detail. Registration is open to follow the event virtually by Zoom application.
The ALBA Synchrotron has actively participated in the Smart Agrifood Industry congress organised on the 25 and 26 of May by secpho, the Deep Tech cluster from South Europe, using their innovative virtual platform Secpholand. Several connections with companies were made during the event.
