European VLBI Network (EVN) – a network of radio telescopes located primarily in Europe and Asia, with additional antennas in South Africa and Puerto Rico, which performs very high angular resolution observations of cosmic radio sources.
RadioAstron – radio interferometric observations with Russian satellite Spectr-R, equipped with a 10-m radio telescope.
RadioNet – European Commission projects to support European Radio Astronomy.
Low-Frequency Array for radio astronomy (LOFAR) – network of radio antennas located in different European countries (3 in Poland), that works at MHz frequencies.
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) – is the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere and among the largest in the world. It has a hexagonal primary mirror array 11 metres across.
High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) – world’s largest observatory for studying very high energy gamma-ray astrophysics.
Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) – an initiative to build next generation ground based gamma-ray observatories (on ESFRI).
Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (ATHENA) – is the X-ray observatory mission selected by ESA, within its Cosmic Vision programme, to address the Hot and Energetic Universe scientific theme.
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) – an initiative to build a telescope that will produce the deepest, widest, image of the Universe.
RoboPol – an initiative to build and operate a unique polarimeter that is currently mounted on 1 .3-m telescope of the Skinakas Observatory.
Partnerships
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Space Telescope Science Institute, USA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Wigner Research Center for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
