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OPTICON

Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy

Coordinator	FIRST LIGHT IMAGING SAS ; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL ; NORDIC OPTICAL TELESCOPE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION ; THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS ; Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias ; UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI ; University of Liège ; AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS ; Durham University ; EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY - ESO EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ; University of Porto ; National University of Ireland Galway ; Polytechnic University of Milan ; University of Bath ; THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARSOF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ; National Observatory of Athens ; Leiden University ; THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ; Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales ; IT University of Copenhagen ; LG - Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam ; National Institute for Astrophysics ; NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO ; Liverpool John Moores University ; Department of Industry ; Max Planck Society ; INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE THEORIQUE ET APPLIQUEE IOTA - SUPOPTIQUE ; University of Exeter ; University of Sheffield ; Technology Strategy Board ; CNRS - Institut des Sciences Biologiques ; CSILLAGASZATI ES FOLDTUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT ; Heriot-Watt University
Grant period	2017-01-01 - 2021-06-30
Funding body	European Union
Call number	H2020-INFRAIA-2016-1
Grant number	730890
Identifier	G:(EU-Grant)730890

Note: 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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Record created 2017-06-14, last modified 2023-02-08

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