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Astronet

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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.

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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

    • 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.

    References

    Astronet Wikipedia
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