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| Title | Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy |
| Grant Agreement Number | 730890 |
| Funding Programmes | H2020 |
| Budget | Total: €10,011,619.61, EC Contribution: €10,000,000.00 |
| Dates | 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2020 |
| Type Of Project | RIA |
| Abstract | 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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Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country, EC contribution to budget) |
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, (€796,132.25) |
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Partners
(Organisation name and Country, EC contribution to budget) |
UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN, Netherlands, (€399,762.50) KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET, Denmark, (€429,527.50) NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY, Ireland, (€213,017.50) UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM, United Kingdom, (€244,957.50) POLITECNICO DI MILANO, Italy, (€133,750.00) UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO, Portugal, (€203,750.00) OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES, France, (€56,250.00) LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY, United Kingdom, (€306,980.00) NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS, Greece, (€17,850.00) NORDIC OPTICAL TELESCOPE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION, Sweden, (€221,953.00) EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY - ESO EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, Germany, (€450,000.00) UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI, Poland, (€210,000.00) UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE, Belgium, (€172,500.00) THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom, (€200,987.50) NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO, Netherlands, (€89,533.75) THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, United Kingdom, (€125,212.00) THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, United Kingdom, (€75,000.00) UNIVERSITY OF BATH, United Kingdom, (€141,250.00) HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY, United Kingdom, (€126,187.50) LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR ASTROPHYSIK POTSDAM , Germany, (€146,793.75) THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, United Kingdom, (€186,982.50) DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY, Australia, (€295,244.00) FIRST LIGHT IMAGING SAS, France, (€270,000.00) INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE THEORIQUE ET APPLIQUEE IOTA - SUPOPTIQUE, France, (€100,000.00) MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA CSILLAGASZATI ES FOLDTUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT, Hungary, (€144,325.00) |
