SOLARNET
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Spagna - Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) - Stockholms Universitet (SU) - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS (CNRS) - Astrofisica (INAF) - Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (UNITOV)- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, M.P. (CSIC) - Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG) - Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Postdam (AIP) - University of Northumbria at Newcastle (NU) - The University of Sheffield (USFD) - University College London (UCL) - The Queen's University of Belfast (QUB) - Astronomicky Ustav AVCR vvi (ASU) - Koninklijke Sterrenwacht Van Belgie (ORB) - Sveuciliste u Zagrebu - Geodetski Fakultet (HVAR) - Astronomical Institute Of The Slovak Academy Of Sciences (AISAS) - Universita Della Svizzera Italiana (USI/IRSOL) - Universitaet Graz (UNI GRAZ) - Skolkovo Institute Of Science And Technology (Skoltech) - Aperio Sofware Limited (Aperio) - Alpao (ALPAO) - SMN Sciencemedia Network GMBH (SMN) - Winlight Optics (WO) - Inter-University Research Institute Corporation National Institutes Of Natural Sciences (NINS) - Association Of Universities For Research In Astronomy INC. (AURA) - Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer) - A.D.S. International SRL (ADS) - BDP Engineering And Manufacturing SCARL (BDP E&M) - Universidad De Oviedo (UNIOVI) - University Of Durham (UDUR) - Haute Ecole Specialisee De Suisse Occidentale (HES-SO) - Advanced Mechanical And Optical Systems SA (AMOS).
Abstract
This project aims at integrating the major European infrastructures in the field of high-resolution solar physics.
The following actions will be taken:
- (i) realise transnational access to all European users;
- (ii) integrate small communities and foster European collaboration;
- (ii) enhance and spread data acquisition and processing expertise to the Europewide community;
- (iii) increase the impact of high-resolution data by offering science-ready data and facilitating their retrieval and usage;
- (iv) encourage combination of space and ground-based data by providing unified access to pertinent data repositories;
- (v) foster synergies between observational and theoretical research communities by organising meetings where each presents state-of-the-art methodologies;
- (vi) train a new generation through student schools, a mobility program, and grant program to attend conferences;
- (vii) develop innovative post-focus instrumentation;
- (viii) develop and build next generation devices to correct for atmospheric turbulence;
- (ix) lay foundations for combined use of synoptic and high-resolution facilities on ground and in space
- (x) dissemination activities towards society.
The project involves all pertinent European research institutions, infrastructures, and data repositories. Together, these represent first-class facilities. The additional participation by private companies and non- European research institutions maximizes the impact on the world-wide scale. In particular, the project achievements will be of principal importance in defining the exploitation of the future 4-meter European Solar Telescope.
