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PROJECT PARTNERS  CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) CNRS coordinates the French participation in the VO through the Action Spécifique Observatoires Virtuels France (Specific Action France Virtual Observatory – AS OV). AS OV is supported by INSU and CNES, and coordinates the French participation to the VO from most French Observatories. The EuroVO-AIDA project is coordinated by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS - INSU/Université Louis Pasteur), a major participant in the development of the VO at the international and national levels, and a partner of the European FP5 AVO RTD project, FP6 VOTECH ) Design Study and FP6 EuroVO-DCA project. CDS publishes widely used reference services in the VO.  ESA (European Space Agency) The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe's gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens in Europe. The Science Programme enhances European capability in space science and applications, builds European industrial technical capacity, and brings together European national space programmes. ESA's centre in Spain,the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), holds the associated archives. The ESAC Science Archives Team is developing VO compliant access to all these archives, as well as developing tools and facilities in the context of the Euro-VO Facility Centre with ESO. ESA also participated in the EuroVO-DCA project .  ESO (European Southern Observatory) The European Southern Observatory is a European intergovernmental research organisation developing and operating observatories in Chile on behalf of astronomers in 11 member states of the EU. ESO operates the world’s largest astronomical data archive with more than 3000 registered users and provides access to 50 Terabytes of data from ESO telescopes. ESO was the co-ordinating organisation of the FP5 AVO RTD Project and founding member of the (IVOA). ESO participated in the Euro-VO Data Centre Alliance and leads the Euro-VO Facility Centre with ESA. It contributes to several VOTECH tasks.  INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica) The Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - INAF promotes, realizes and co-ordinates, also within programs of the European Union and international organisms, activity of research in many astronomical fields, in collaboration with the Universities and with other public and private, national and international subjects. It is a network that consisting of Astronomical Observatories and Institutes geographically distributed over the national territory. INAF is also active in the fields of GRID technologies (deployment of infrastructure and integration of domain-specific applications) and archives of astronomical data (from both ground-based and space-borne facilities). INAF also participated in the EuroVO-DCA project.  INTA (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial INTA (National Institute for Aerospace Technology) is a governmental organization for space-based research and technology. It leads the Spanish Virtual Observatory Project and the Spanish Virtual Observatory Thematic Network, two initiatives funded by the Ministry of Education and Research to enhance and coordinate the participation of the Spanish institutes in the VO framework. INTA possesses at LAEFF the largest Spanish Astronomical Data Centre and participated in the EuroVO-DCA project.  NOVA (Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor Astronomie), legally represented by the University of Groningen NOVA is the National Research school for astronomy in the Netherlands. It is a joint enterprise of five participating Universities (Groningen, Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Nijmegen, aiming for front-line astronomical research and training and knowledge transfer of young astronomers. NOVA participated in the EuroVO-DCA project. The University of Groningen formally and legally represents the NOVA organization.  UEDIN The University of Edinburgh enters the project on behalf of the AstroGrid Project, which is a consortium of six UK Universities and Public Laboratories who collaborate within the UK to take forward the Virtual Observatory agenda. AstroGrid has a particular focus on development of the technical infrastructure necessary for the VObs, such as Virtual Storage, Authentication, API, Workflow systems, and grid and web service interfaces, as well as development of the related standards. For that reason AstroGrid is acknowledged as the lead partner within the Euro-VO Technology Centre (VOTC), and is the co-ordinating partner for the FP6 VOTECH project. The AstroGrid project, along with CDS, ESO, and the US-NVO, was a founding member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA). The University of Edinburgh is a major European University. It hosts a leading Astronomy research centre at the Royal Observatory.  UHEI The Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg is the oldest University in Germany. It is a member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), which comprises 18 of the strongest research places in Europe and its Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie produces the largest number of physics PhDs among all German universities. The German partner institute is the Zentrum für Astronomie of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (ZAH). ZAH comprises the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI), the Institut für Theoretische Astrophysics (ITA) and the Landessternwarte Königstuhl (LSW). It was founded in 2005 and now constitutes the largest astronomy group at a German University. ZAH scientists participate at major astronomical projects. The Astronomisches Rechen-Institut is representing the Virtual Observatory part of the German astronomical community. GAVO (German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory) is the organisation which coordinates the German participation in the VObs. It is developing software tools for federating, accessing and analysing large distributed datasets, and an interface to grid computing. Within the IVOA activities GAVO is participating to the definition of VObs standards, with particular emphasis on standards for Theory issues. |
EuroVO-AIDA Partners
co-funded project