Objective
For more than two decades, the EU has been supporting free transnational access (TA) to existing national research infrastructures (RI). In particular, the optical/infrared and the advanced radio astronomy communities are now recognised as TA flagship communities. Their telescopes and instrumentation complement each other with respect to wavelength coverage, as well as spectral, spatial and time resolution, and therefore together form a cohesive suite of RIs that made ground breaking discoveries possible and thus strengthened Europe's leading role in international science. While scientists more and more rely on multi-wavelength and multi-disciplinary access to the best RIs, there is a quest by the RI providers for a sustainable funding scheme for TA, since establishing and maintaining outstanding RIs requires considerable resources. In this pilot, the best research institutions from both communities will combine their efforts to further improve and harmonize their services and to make best use of their RIs, allowing mutual and TA to telescopes, telescope networks, and data archives. This will facilitate multi-wavelengths and time-domain studies. TA shall be simplified by the development of a common proposal submission tool. Improved instruments, adaptive optics, and software to deliver science ready data products will boost the performance of our RIs. This pilot will address imminent threats to astronomical research from satellite mega constellations and commercial radio emitters, and finally, it will develop plans for a long-term mutual relationship and for a continued funding of TA beyond this pilot.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-INFRAIA-2020-1
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
75794 Paris
France
Participants (36)
CB2 1TN Cambridge
80539 Munchen
00136 Roma
SN2 1FL Swindon
28006 Madrid
85748 Garching
2311 EZ Leiden
M13 9PL Manchester
7991 PD Dwingeloo
3526 KV Utrecht
38400 Saint Martin D'heres
7991 PD Dwingeloo
41296 Goeteborg
28003 Madrid
87100 Torun
LV3600 Ventspils
02150 Espoo
8000 Aarhus C
04550 Almeria
L3 5UX Liverpool
38205 San Cristobal De La Laguna
11810 Athina
KY16 9AJ St Andrews
DH1 3LE Durham
4099 002 Porto
00 927 Warszawa
1121 Budapest
91120 Palaiseau
EX4 4QJ Exeter
3000 Leuven
38712 Brena Baja
0200 Canberra
91120 Palaiseau
SK11 9DL Macclesfield
7925 Cape Town
70013 Irakleio