On 23 May, Minister Dijkgraaf of Education, Culture and Science visited Maastricht. He also visited the gravitational wave laboratory ETpathfinder. In addition to the official part of the programme, he paid a spontaneous visit to the clean room to take a closer look at the metres-high installation.
On 29 April, the 3rd IAB (Industry Advisory Board) for the combined projects ETpathfinder, E-TEST and ET2SMEs, took place at the ETpathfinder facility in Maastricht.
Read more “3rd IAB for ETpathfinder, E-TEST and ET2SMEs a great success”
The Dutch government intends to conditionally allocate 42 million euros from the Dutch National Growth Fund to the Einstein Telescope, and is also reserving 870 million euros for a future Dutch contribution to the construction.
The Einstein Telescope project proposal meets the entry criteria of the Dutch National Growth Fund and has been submitted to the Advisory Committee. The Ministers of Economic Affairs and Climate Change (EZK) and Finance (FIN) confirmed this in a letter to the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) on 14 February. This confirmation takes the Einstein Telescope one step further in the process.
Does your company have an idea for a new product, process or technology? And could this be relevant to the Einstein Telescope? Then the voucher scheme of the ET2SMEs project might be interesting for you!
On November 8, Ingrid van Engelshoven – the Demissionary Minister of Education, Culture and Science – opened ETpathfinder during a festive ceremony in Maastricht.
Demissionary Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven will open ETpathfinder in Maastricht this afternoon.
On 31 October, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven submitted an application for the Einstein Telescope to the National Growth Fund, supported by her colleague of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.
Dr. Jessica Steinlechner of the Department of Gravitational Waves and Fundamental Physics (GWFP) was awarded a VIDI grant to develop mirror coatings for gravitational waves detectors.
GWFP researcher, Dr. Jan-Simon Hennig, was awarded the Feodor-Lynen Fellowship from the German Alexander von Humboldt society.
De centrale spil van de ontwikkeling van de toekomstige Einstein Telescoop – voor de detectie van zwaartekrachtgolven – staat in Maastricht. Bij de universiteit van deze stad verrijst een laboratorium voor ET Pathfinder, een prototype van de Einstein Telescoop. De bouw van het laboratorium nadert zijn voltooiing. Wat gaat er in het lab gebeuren?
The first phase of constructing ETpathfinder was finished last summer by pouring the high-tech concrete floor. And with the drying of the concrete done, the build has entered the second phase: building the cleanroom.
Two research projects by Nikhef and others receive support from the National Science Agenda. One project wants to illuminate the mystery of black holes from all sides, the other looks directly back to almost the big bang. Both also focus explicitly on the curious general public.
The state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia has unanimously pledged its support for the groundbreaking international science project Einstein Telescope (ET).
On September 9th, the Italian government submitted an application to include the Einstein Telescope in the European roadmap for large research infrastructures. The governments of Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain support the application. Being part of this ESFRI-roadmap would recognize the importance of the Einstein Telescope for Europe.
On Monday 3 August, representatives of the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia came to Maastricht for a working visit. This Benelux group of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia wanted to be informed about the Einstein Telescope.
Fourteen German universities and research institutions receive a total of around 2 million euros from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This grant allows physicists and geophysicists to work on various technological aspects of the Einstein Telescope.
The Einstein Telescope comes with unique technical challenges that cannot be solved by science alone. That’s why collaboration with industry is important. During webinars on July 1st and 15th specialists from both – science and industry – explored the challenges and collaboration opportunities together.
A lot of talk has been going around about the prototype for a new generation of gravitational wave detector: ETpathfinder. And now, after many months of careful planning and preparation, the first visible steps towards realisation are finally complete.
Meanwhile in Maastricht, the construction work for R&D-lab ETpathfinder continues.
As of the 13th of March 2020 construction work has started in the ETpathfinder hall with tearing down a separation wall in the old printing hall.
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Activities are gathering pace at two sites in Europe where the Einstein Telescope, a proposed next-generation gravitational-wave observatory, may be built.
In preparation of the next generation of gravitational wave telescopes, a 20-meter prototype, called the ETpathfinder, will be built in Maastricht.
On the 6th and 7th of February 2020 the ETpathfinder Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) met in the ETpathfinder building at Maastricht to discuss and evaluate the ETpathfinder design and research plans.
Read more “First meeting of the ETpathfinder STAC”
De komst van de Einstein Telescoop naar Zuid-Limburg is weer een stap dichterbij gekomen. De EU heeft deze week een subsidie toegekend van 7,5 miljoen euro voor verder bodemonderzoek.
De komst van de Einstein Telescoop naar Zuid-Limburg is weer een stapje dichterbij gekomen nu uit onderzoek is gebleken dat de grond onder het Heuvelland stabiel genoeg is voor de kilometerslange detectoren van zwaartekrachtsgolven.
De kans dat er een enorme detector voor zwaartekrachtsgolven komt in Nederland is weer wat groter geworden.
Im Jahr 2015 wurden erstmals Gravitationswellen gemessen – mit zwei Detektoren in den USA. Nun planen europäische Forscher das „Einstein Teleskop“, das zehnmal sensibler für diese Wellen ist. Als Standort ist das Dreiländereck bei Aachen im Gespräch.
De testfaciliteit voor Einstein Telescope wordt gevestigd in het universiteitspand naast de Kennedybrug in Maastricht. De bouw start begin volgend jaar.
Een consortium van Belgische, Nederlandse en Duitse universiteiten en onderzoeksinstellingen gaat een onderzoekscentrum voor zwaartekrachtgolven bouwen in Maastricht.
De Universiteit Maastricht is officieel toegetreden tot de Einstein Telescope Coalitie van Nikhef en KU Leuven; een samenwerkingsverband dat gaat onderzoeken wat de wetenschappelijke en technologische mogelijkheden zijn om de Einstein Telescope te vestigen in de grensregio rond Zuid-Limburg.
Alle leden van het Nikhef-bestuur hebben ingestemd met de toetreding van Universiteit Maastricht tot het nationale samenwerkingsverband Nikhef.