HORIZON 2020 - A stellar nursery for young astronomers

One spacecraft, five years or more, and over a billion stars - ESA's Gaia mission set out in 2013 to produce a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. It will discover many new celestial objects in the process and provide astronomers with clues as to how our galaxy formed. An EU-funded training network involved 17 early stage researchers in this mission.

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Innovation Funding Researchers Marie Skłodowska Curie actions Space Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Poland Portugal Sweden United Kingdom Switzerland China

date: 07/07/2016

Project: Gaia Research for European Astronomy Tra...

acronym: GREAT

See also: CORDIS

The Great-ITN project allowed a group of young scientists to start their research careers on a high. It enabled successful applicants inspired by Gaia to enrol in PhD programmes at the participating universities and supported them with extensive training and complementary mentoring.

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