Astronet is a consortium which gather European funding agencies in order to establish a comprehensive long-term planning for the development of European
astronomy
Astronomy () is a natural science that studies astronomical object, celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and chronology of the Universe, evolution. Objects of interest ...
. The consortium started on September 1, 2005.
What is Astronet?
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Participants
*Centre national de la recherche scientifique
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
/Institut national des sciences de l'univers
An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations ( research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body.
In some countries, institutes c ...
(coordinator), France
*Federal Ministry of Education and Research
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (german: link=no, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, ), abbreviated BMBF, is a cabinet-level ministry of Germany. It is headquartered in Bonn, with an office in Berlin. The Ministry provi ...
and PT-DESY, Germany
*European Southern Observatory
The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, commonly referred to as the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental research organisation made up of 16 mem ...
, International
*Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
The National Institute for Astrophysics ( it, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, or INAF) is an Italian research institute in astronomy and astrophysics, founded in 1999. INAF funds and operates twenty separate research facilities, which in turn e ...
, Italy
* MCINN (now ), Spain
* NOTSA
*Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
The Dutch Research Council (NWO, Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) is the national research council of the Netherlands. NWO funds thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes and steers the course o ...
, the Netherlands
*Science and Technology Facilities Council
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is a United Kingdom government agency that carries out research in science and engineering, and funds UK research in areas including particle physics, nuclear physics, space science and astro ...
, United Kingdom
* NCBiR, Poland
Associates
*ESA
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, headquarters = Paris, Île-de-France, France
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, spaceport = Guiana Space Centre
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, International
* MPG and DFG, Germany
* LAS, Lithuania
* SRC, Sweden
* GNCA, Greece
*HAS
HAS or Has may refer to:
Organizations
* Hawaii Audubon Society, bird conservation organization in Hawaii
* Hellenic Actuarial Society, association of actuaries in Greece
* Hubbard Association of Scientologists International, corporation founde ...
, Hungary
* ESF, Estonia
*SER
Ser or SER may refer to:
Places
* Ser, a village in Bogdand Commune, Satu Mare County, Romania
* Serpens (Ser), an astronomical constellation of the northern hemisphere
* Serres, known as Ser in Serbian, a city in Macedonia, Greece
Organizatio ...
, Switzerland
* FWF, Austria
* AI SAS, Slovak Republic
* CAS, Czech Republic
*ROSA
Rosa or De Rosa may refer to:
People
*Rosa (given name)
*Rosa (surname)
* Santa Rosa (female given name from Latin-a latinized variant of Rose)
Places
* 223 Rosa, an asteroid
* Rosa, Alabama, a town, United States
*Rosa, Germany, in Thuringia, ...
, Romania
* NASU, Ukraine
*ARRS ARRS may refer to:
* American Roentgen Ray Society
* Association of Road Racing Statisticians
The Association of Road Racing Statisticians is an independent, non-profit organization that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics regarding roa ...
, Slovenia
Forum members
* ISA, Israel
*Institute of Astronomy of the University of Latvia
*Academy of Finland The Academy of Finland ( fi, Suomen Akatemia, sv, Finlands Akademi) is a governmental funding body for scientific research in Finland. It is based in Helsinki. Yearly, the Academy administers over 260 million euros to Finnish research activities. ...
*Forskningsrådet for Natur og Univers (FNU), Denmark
Financing
ASTRONET is an ERA-Net financed by the European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body ...
FP6
The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 to FP9, are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the Europea ...
(under the initiative « Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area (ERA) »), up to a level of 2.5 M€, out of a total budget of 3.2 M€. The project duration is 4 years.
See also
*European Extremely Large Telescope
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is an Observatory#Astronomical observatories, astronomical observatory currently under construction. When completed, it is planned to be the world's largest Optical telescope, optical/Infrared#Regions within ...
* European Northern Observatory
*Cherenkov Telescope Array
The Cherenkov Telescope Array or CTA is a multinational, worldwide project to build a new generation of ground-based gamma-ray instrument in the energy range extending from some tens of GeV to about 300 TeV. It is proposed as an open observatory ...
References
Further reading
"Astronomers unveil wish list."
''Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans ar ...
''.
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"Himmlische Visionen für das All - Astronomen diskutieren die Großprojekte der."
''Deutschlandradio Kultur
Deutschlandfunk Kultur (; abbreviated to ''DLF Kultur'' or ''DKultur'') is a culture-oriented radio station and part of Deutschlandradio, a set of national radio stations in Germany. Initially named ''DeutschlandRadio Berlin'', the station was ren ...
''.
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"As the stars were born?."
''Expresso
Expresso may refer to:
* Espresso, a coffee beverage
* eXpresso, a hosted workspace for Microsoft Office communities
* Expresso (Donkey Kong), a character in the ''Donkey Kong Country'' series
* ''Expresso'' (newspaper), based in Lisbon, Portu ...
''.
External links
Official website
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"Mathematician with ASTRONET successful - New methods for calculation of trajectories in space."
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