The Spatial Research Excellence by ESS project – SREss Phase 2 will carry out investments in research infrastructure at ESS. The aim of the project is to, by investing in the research infrastructure, lay the crucial base to ensure that it is possible to complete and instrument the European Spallation Source ERIC, by securing the basic infrastructure around accelerator, target station and instrumentation. European Spallation Source (ESS) is a Sami-European research project. The aim is to create a world-class facility for research with neutron scattering techniques in a variety of fields of science. Sweden and Denmark are host countries for the facility and Sweden has a special responsibility with the placement in Lund. ESS will be a multidisciplinary research center based on the world’s most powerful neutron nucleus. Ace can be compared to a large microscope, where different materials are studied using neutrons. ESS is expected to have a central role in neutron research and Swedish involvement in the organisation is of high priority. The European Spallation Source ERIC was established by the European Spallation Source (EU) 2015/1478. On 1 October 2015, the transition from ESS AB to ESS ERIC was completed, giving ESS ERIC a legal status in all member states. Ace will deliver the first neutrons in 2019. Then the plant will develop for several years before it reaches its full potential.