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Awarded

To see the Grants awarded by the IAC (Access the National Subsidy Advertising System) select "Convocatorias", Admon. del Estado: select:  Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación e Universidades;  Organo: select: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Grants awarded by IAC

Received

  • Stars4ll: a collective awareness platform for promoting darkness. H2020 Grant
    WHY: 2015 has been named by the United Nations as the International Year of Light (light2015.org). Electricity and light have many obvious benefits for human mankind, but they also pose some relevant threats: the every day increasing excess of light thrown by humans to the sky seriously threatens to remove forever one of humanity’s natural wonders
    Miquel
    Serra Ricart
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  • Specialized cryo-mechanical equipment for the development of astronomical instrumentation
    The development and consolidation of the Cryogenics line of the Mechanics Department of the IAC is fundamental for the center to position itself and acquire an active participation in the construction of the future instruments of the GTC, EST, as well as for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E -ELT). With this action, the necessary
    María Begoña
    García Lorenzo
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    Not in force
  • Evolution of galaxies
    Galaxy evolution is one of the hot topics in Astrophysics that have shown tangible progress in the last years. This has been mostly due to advent of large telescopes, both ground based and in space, with state-of-the-art instruments, equipped with high sensitive detectors. They have made possible acquiring the deepest surveys in different
    Jorge
    Cepa Nogue
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    Not in force
  • Operation and scientific exploitation of the AMS experiment in the IAC
    The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a general purpose high energy particle detector that was deployed to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 19, 2011 to conduct a unique long duration mission of fundamental physics research from space. Among the physics objectives of AMS are a search for Dark Matter, Antimatter, the study of
    Ramón
    García López
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    Not in force
  • Participation in the NISP instrument and preparation for EUCLID science
    The main goal of this project is to ensure the scientific and technical participation of IAC and UPCT in the ESA space mission EUCLID (Cosmic Vision Program) during the period 2016-2018. In particular, the spanish scientific participation includes researchers belonging to IAC, UPCT, IFCA, CAB, IFT, Univ. of Salamanca and CEFCA. Currently, the NISP
    Carlos Manuel
    Gutiérrez de La Cruz
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    Not in force
  • Design, manufacture and putting into orbit of DRAGO: a near-infrared earth observation camera
    Within ALISIO project, which started in 2018, a new instrument called DRAGO is being developed. DRAGO is an Earth Observation camera, valid for operation in a low orbit (~600 km). This camera operates in the infrared range up to 1.6 micron and it is compatible with the CubeSat standard, fitting in platform CubeSat 3U+. The completion of this
    Pablo Gustavo
    Redondo Caicoya
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    Not in force