Objective
Europe has become a global leader in optical-near infrared astronomy through excellence in space and ground-based experimental and theoretical research. While the major infrastructures are delivered through major national and multi-national agencies (ESO, ESA) their continuing scientific competitiveness requires a strong community of scientists and technologists distributed across Europe’s nations.
OPTICON has a proven record supporting European astrophysical excellence through development of new technologies, through training of new people, through delivering open access to the best infrastructures, and through strategic planning for future requirements in technology, innovative research methodologies, and trans-national coordination.
Europe’s scientific excellence depends on continuing effort developing and supporting the distributed expertise across Europe - this is essential to develop and implement new technologies and ensure instrumentation and infrastructures remain cutting edge.
Excellence depends on continuing effort to strengthen and broaden the community, through networking initiatives to include and then consolidate European communities with more limited science expertise.
Excellence builds on training actions to qualify scientists from European communities which lack national access to state of the art research infrastructures to compete successfully for use of the best available facilities.
Excellence depends on access programmes which enable all European scientists to access the best infrastructures needs-blind, purely on competitive merit.
Global competitiveness and the future of the community require early planning of long-term sustainability, awareness of potentially disruptive technologies, and new approaches to the use of national-scale infrastructures under remote or robotic control.
OPTICON will continue to promote this excellence, global competitiveness and long-term strategic planning.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-INFRAIA-2016-1
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
CB2 1TN Cambridge
United Kingdom
Participants (34)
75794 Paris
00136 Roma
80539 Munchen
SN2 1FL Swindon
85748 Garching
28006 Madrid
2311 EZ Leiden
13590 Meyreuil
91120 Palaiseau
2595 DA Den Haag
38205 San Cristobal De La Laguna
1121 Budapest
00 927 Warszawa
11810 Athina
H91 Galway
1165 Kobenhavn
4000 Liege
4099 002 Porto
14482 Potsdam
20133 Milano
Participation ended
221 00 Lund
Participation ended
2601 Canberra City Act
EH14 4AS Edinburgh
KY16 9AJ St Andrews
L3 5UX Liverpool
DH1 3LE Durham
EX4 4QJ Exeter
BA2 7AY Bath
Participation ended
OX1 2JD Oxford
S10 2TN Sheffield
91120 Palaiseau
8000 Aarhus C
04550 Almeria
3122 Hawthorn