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Opticon RadioNet Pilot
| Funder | European Commission |
|---|---|
| Recipient Organization | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS |
| Country | France |
| Start Date | Mar 01, 2021 |
| End Date | Feb 28, 2025 |
| Duration | 1,460 days |
| Number of Grantees | 40 |
| Roles | Participant; Third Party; Coordinator |
| Data Source | European Commission |
| Grant ID | 101004719 |
Grant Description
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.
All Grantees
Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry As A European Research Infrastructure Consortium (Jiv-Eric); Aarhus Universitet; Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique Societe Civile; The University of Exeter; Uniwersytet Warszawski; Universiteit Leiden; The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge; Fundacion Galileo Galilei - Inaf Fundacion Canaria; The University of Manchester; Ska Organisation; Ventspils Augstskola; University of Durham; Centro Astronomico Hispano Aleman Aie; Idryma Technologias Kai Erevnas; The University Court of the University of St Andrews; Liverpool John Moores University; European Southern Observatory - Eso European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere; Aalto Korkeakoulusaatio Sr; Institut D'Optique Theorique Et Appliquee Iota - Supoptique; Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas; Office National D'Etudes Et de Recherches Aerospatiales; Low Frequency Array European Research Infrastructure Consortium; Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica; United Kingdom Research and Innovation; Universidade Do Porto; Ethniko Asteroskopeio Athinon; Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Wissenschaften Ev; Centro Nacional de Informacion Geografica; Observatoire de Paris; The Australian National University; Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias; Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika W Toruniu; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Salt Foundation (Pty) Ltd; Universite de Toulouse; Stichting Nederlandse Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Instituten; Hun-Ren Csillagaszati Es Foldtudomanyi Kutatokozpont; Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola Ab
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