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]

## Contents

* 1 Participants
* 2 Associates
* 3 Forum members
* 4 Financing
* 5 See also
* 6 References
* 7 Further reading
* 8 External links

## 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 [es]), 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

## References

1. ↑ "Astronomie: le programme européen Astronet présente un plan sur 20 ans". Le Point. 2008-11-25. http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-sciences-sante/2008-11-25/astronomie-le-programme-europeen-astronet-presente-un-plan-sur-20/919/0/294567. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
2. ↑ What is Astronet?

## 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."

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