Astronet

Astronet is a consortium which gather European funding agencies in order to establish a comprehensive long-term planning for the development of European astronomy. The consortium started on September 1, 2005.^[1][2]

Participants

• Centre national de la recherche scientifique/Institut national des sciences de l'univers (coordinator), France
• Federal Ministry of Education and Research and PT-DESY, Germany
• European Southern Observatory, international
• Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy
• MCINN (now MINECO), Spain
• NOTSA
• Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, the Netherlands
• Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
• NCBiR, Poland

Associates

• ESA, International,
• MPG and DFG, Germany,
• LAS, Lithuania,
• SRC, Sweden,
• GNCA,Greece,
• HAS, Hungary,
• ESF, Estonia,
• SER, Switzerland,
• FWF, Austria,
• AI SAS, Slovak Republic,
• CAS, Czech Republic,
• ROSA, Romania,
• NASU, Ukraine,
• ARRS, Slovenia.

Forum members

• ISA, Israel,
• Institute of Astronomy of the University of Latvia,
• Academy of Finland,
• Forskningsrådet for Natur og Univers (FNU), Denmark.

Financing

ASTRONET is an ERA-Net financed by the European Commission FP6 (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
• European Northern Observatory
• Cherenkov Telescope Array

References

1. "Astronomie: le programme européen Astronet présente un plan sur 20 ans". Le Point. 2008-11-25. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
2. What is Astronet?

Further reading

• "Astronomers unveil wish list." Nature.
• (German) "Himmlische Visionen für das All - Astronomen diskutieren die Großprojekte der." Deutschlandradio Kultur.
• (Portuguese) "As the stars were born?." Expresso.

External links

• Official website
• (German) "Mathematician with ASTRONET successful - New methods for calculation of trajectories in space."