Abstract
ACME (the Astrophysics Centre for Multi-messenger studies in Europe) addresses the EC Call to provide wider, simplified, and more efficient access to the best research infrastructures (RI) available to researchers in the astronomy and astroparticle physics communities. ACME is set up to realize an ambitious coordinated European-wide optimization of the accessibility and cohesion between multiple leading RI, offering access to instruments, data and expertise, focused on the new science of multi-messenger astrophysics. ACME will forge a basis for strengthened long-term collaboration between these RI irrespective of location. Collaboration and user training will be specifically aimed at levelling up access opportunities across Europe and beyond. ACME objectives are: - implement the European roadmaps’ recommendations and act as a pathfinder to broaden, improve and align access to the respective RI services and data, and assess and evaluate new models for better coordination and provision of at-scale services - provide harmonized and inclusive trans-national and virtual access to world-class RI - develop centres of expertise providing expert support to enable easier access for more researchers - improve science data products management to facilitate both focused research goals and serendipitous discoveries, implementing FAIR approaches to broaden access - improve interoperable systems for rapid identification of astrophysical candidate events, and alert distribution to the network of RI and scientific consortia to optimize follow-up observations - provide training for a new and broader generation of scientists and engineers - open the astrophysics and astroparticle physics data sets to other disciplines, such as environmental studies or marine biology for the undersea neutrino facilities and increase citizen engagement in scientific research
Project details
Unibo Team Leader: Elena Cuoco
Unibo involved Department/s:
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Augusto Righi"
Coordinator:
Cnrs Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique Delegation Paris B Service Financier Et Comptable(France)
Other Participants:
Gran Sasso Science Institute - Scuola Universitaria Superiore
(Italy)
The University Of Manchester
(United Kingdom)
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna
(Italy)
Uppsala Universitet - Università di Uppsala
(Sweden)
Universite' De Geneve
(Switzerland)
The Queen'S University Of Belfast
(United Kingdom)
Cea-Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
(France)
Infn - Cnaf
(Italy)
Stichting Nederlandse Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Instituten (Nwo-I)
(Netherlands)
Universite' Catholique De Louvain
(Belgium)
Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III
(France)
Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne Service Financier
(Switzerland)
(Ucam) The Chancellor Masters And Scholars Of The University Of Cambridge
(United Kingdom)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen (Lmu)
(Germany)
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Wissenschaften Ev
(Germany)
Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika - Universitas Nicolai Copernici
(Poland)
Aalto Korkeakoulusaatio Sr
(Finland)
Stiftung Fzi Forschungszentrum Informatik Am Karlsruher Institut Fur Technologie
(Germany)
CENTRUM BADAN KOSMICZNYCH POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK-Space Research Centre Polish Academy of Sciences
(Poland)
Universidade De Santiago De Compostela
(Spain)
Taras Shevchenko National University Of Kyiv (Tsnuk)
(Ukraine)
The Open University
(United Kingdom)
Humboldt-Universitaet Zu Berlin
(Germany)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
(Germany)
Inaf - Istituto Nazionale Astrofisica
(Italy)
Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen Nuernberg
(Germany)
CHERENKOV TELESCOPE ARRAY OBSERVATORY gGmbH
(Germany)
Total Eu Contribution: Euro (EUR) 14.499.999,25
Project Duration in months: 48
Start Date:
01/09/2024
End Date:
31/08/2028
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101131928