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.

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
• ARIS, 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

Further reading

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

External links

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