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.
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
CB2 1TN Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Participants (43)
75794 Paris
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75014 Paris
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96743 Kamuela
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06304 Nice
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13284 Marseille
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75006 Paris
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38058 Grenoble
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00136 Roma
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38712 Brena Baja
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80539 Munchen
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04550 Almeria
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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85748 Garching
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28006 Madrid
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2311 EZ Leiden
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13590 Meyreuil
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91120 Palaiseau
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2595 DA Den Haag
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38205 San Cristobal De La Laguna
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1121 Budapest
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00 927 Warszawa
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11810 Athina
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H91 Galway
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1165 Kobenhavn
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4000 Liege
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4099-002 Porto
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14482 Potsdam
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20133 Milano
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221 00 Lund
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2601 Canberra City Act
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EH14 4AS Edinburgh
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KY16 9AJ St Andrews
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L3 5UX Liverpool
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DH1 3LE Durham
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EX4 4QJ Exeter
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BA2 7AY Bath
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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S10 2TN Sheffield
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91120 Palaiseau
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8000 Aarhus C
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04550 Almeria
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3122 Hawthorn
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0200 Canberra
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