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After some initial reluctance I was happy to answer yes, and when EurAAP later sent me a formal proposal of chairing the conference, I was sure that I wanted to do it, and the excitement has only increased since then. Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg have a long tradition of antenna re- search, started in the early 1980s by my predecessor at Chalmers, Folke Bolinder, and Olof Dahlsjö at Ericsson Radar Electronics (ERE). Olof Dahlsjö was the head of the antenna department at ERE for more than 30 years. The antenna department at ERE grew later to what today is the antenna departments within the three companies Ericsson AB, Saab AB Electronic Defence Systems, and RUAG Space AB. 14 Swedish companies are today partners of the Chase Antenna Systems VINN Excellence center at Chalmers. The Chase center has a total turnover of 210 MSEK over 10 years (including financial support from the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems VINNOVA, Chalmers and the 14 companies), and thus represents a very significant undertaking within antenna systems research in Sweden. This has already resulted in several start-ups and spin-offs from Chalmers research, such as e.g. Bluetest AB. The EuCAP 2013 appears after six years have passed of the lifetime of Chase, so it is a great opportunity for us to show the world what we have achieved during these years. Naturally, all the companies in Chase strongly support that Chalmers is hosting EuCAP 2013, and several of them are also exhibiting at the conference. If you are interested in the strong antenna history of Sweden, I can recommend you to attend the Thursday afternoon session/ workshop on “The History of Antennas in Sweden”. This covers many important Swedish antenna historical aspects including Grimeton radio station SAQ (a Unesco World Heritage, we also arrange a visit by bus trip there), Professor Hallén and his famous integral equation, the radio telescope at Onsala outside Gothenburg, the enormous VHF and UHF EISCAT antenna systems for ionospheric Eurora research in Cap of the North, Swedish phased array antennas used e.g. on the Swedish fighter aircrafts JAS Gripen and early warning radar ERIEYE, and Swedish space antenna projects, and the development of the experimental stealth ship “Smyge” (meaning creep in English). There will also be presentations about Allgon, one of the first mass producers of small antennas, and Comhat/Arkivator mass producing reflector antennas and filters for radio links, mainly Ericsson’s MINI-LINK, one of their most successful products ever. Bluetest AB will also present their success story related to Over-The-Air (OTA) test equipment for mobile devices. So, I think this session should be interesting for many of you. The session is actually part of a Swedish Antenna Veterans Day, that includes also a bus trip to the Grimeton Unesco World Heritage and the evening banquet with ABBA music show. Naturally, international telecom companies find Gothenburg interesting today. We have an organization called Microwave Road that promotes the Gothenburg area for its competence in microwaves and antenna technology, and it has enriched the area that Huawei Technologies Sweden AB settled here a few years ago with several interesting antenna projects, involving also financial support of research at Chalmers. Chalmers welcomes this, and sees a lot of potential for the future in develo- ping our competences further together with also a fast-growing and ambitious company like Huawei. 6 7th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION Gothenburg