The ESMN was a collaboration of European solar physics research
groups aiming to measure and understand solar magnetism. It was
initiated as the European Solar Magnetometry Network funded as
TMR
network by a 1.3 million ECU grant from the EC during 1998 - 2002, and
then continued with a 1.4 million Euro grant from the
Fifth Framework
RTN Programme
of the European
Commission during November 1, 2002 - October 30, 2006 under contract
HPRN-CT-2002-00313 as the European Solar Magnetism Network.
Unfortunately, lack of further funding then terminated the ESMN.
The ESMN sucessfully integrated the utilisation of the European solar
telescopes on the Canary Islands with space observation (in particular
from SOHO), data interpretation, and theoretical analysis. It
employed 30 young researchers from EU and Associated countries and it
organised
six schools. Over 350 research papers
acknowledging the ESMN were published in refereed journals and
conference proceedings. In addition, the ESMN performed a host of
public outreach activities.
The ESMN partners were:
- Sterrekundig Instituut,
Utrecht, The Netherlands (coordination)
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias,
La Laguna, Spain
- Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte,
Naples, Italy
- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri,
Florence, Italy
- Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics,
Oslo, Norway
- The Institute for Solar Physics,
Stockholm, Sweden
- Astrophysikalisches Institut,
Potsdam, Germany
- Observatoire de Paris,
Meudon, France
- ESA Solar and Solar-Terrestrial
Missions Division,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Astronomical Institute,
Ondrejov, Czech Republic
- Astronomical Institute,
Tatranska Lomnica, Slovak Republic
- Department of Astronomy Eötvös University,
Budapest, Hungary
Rob Rutten
2010-03-19
