Dolní Břežany municipality in Central Bohemia region was selected as the most convenient location for the most intense laser in the world.

ELI International Beamlines will become an international infrastructure employing approx. 300 homeland and foreign member staff. In addition, it will be targeted by hundreds users and partners from all over Europe. Reasonable distance from the Prague airport and main highways were considered to be essential criteria whereas domestic scientific and industrial base is concentrated in the capital.

Fast and effortlessly to ELI

Dolní Břežany municipality and Prague is connected via regular public city transport. By 2017, the metro line D is expected to reach to Písnice, which is located 3 km far.

Having finished the city ring R1, the distance from the airport takes about 20 minutes; at the same time the highway network is available. The fact heavy trucks are not allowed to enter the village was another criterion why ELI Beamlines selected this locality.

Dolní Břežany – European Capital of science

Dolní Břežany is a growing prospective municipality having a thoroughly developed land-use development plan. Urban adaptations offered a communication axis to interconnect a new and historical municipality center and ELI facility. An impressive center of technology may offer its employees and partners friendly working environment as well as relax services and off-the-job activities.

The sustainable laser

The ELI Beamlines facility is being built on a brownfield site with sufficient infrastructure. According to the current zoning plan, the area can be used for public amenities, science and research. It is therefore a place that provides enough space both for the laser center, as well as for any other building of similar use (technology park buildings, spin-off companies or other research facilities).