Objectives
The OPTICON consortium exists to deliver a simple yet challenging set of strategic objectives.
Structuring the European astronomical community by ensuring astronomers are able to carry out state of the art research on state of the art facilities.
Developing European astronomy by allowing astronomical communities to develop scientific plans for their own future facilities.
Strengthening European astronomy by delivering technology research and development, helping ensure extant and future astronomical research facilities are state of the art.
The consortium membership required to attain those goals defines the OPTICON partnership. The consortium is composed of all the national and international organisations which (wholly or in-part) own and operate Europe’s medium-sized modern optical-infrared astronomical observatories, and several major Institutes and organisations which develop and build innovative instrumentation – hardware and software – for those observatories and telescopes. All modern mid-sized telescopes are involved, both night-time and Solar.
OPTICON will incorporate the following networking (NA), trans-national access (TNA) and joint research activities (JRA) activities.
For reference a list of the original FP7 contract (2009-2012) Activities is
available here (PDF file).
| Workpackage Number | Description |
|---|---|
| WP1 | Towards Adaptive Optics for the European Extremely Large Telescope |
| WP2 | Fast Detectors and Cameras |
| WP3 | Astrophotonics |
| WP4 | Image reconstruction in optical interferometry |
| WP5 | Development of Active Freeform Mirrors (AFMs) |
| WP6 | Novel Dispersive and Holographic Optical Elements for Astronomy |
| WP7 | Transnational Access |
| WP8 | Management |
| WP9 | Innovation |
| WP10 | European Extremely Large Telescope Science |
| WP11 | Time Domain Astronomy |
| WP12 | Medium Sized Telescope Integration |
| WP13 | Enhancing community skills - Integrating Communities |
| WP14 | The European Interferometry Initiative |
