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Dutch Black Holes Consortium receives funding

On 25 November, NWO announced that the interdisciplinary Black Holes Consortium will receive EUR 4.9 million. Part of this money will be invested in preparations for the Einstein Telescope, and...

NRW state parliament unanimously supports Einstein Telescope

The state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia has unanimously pledged its support for the groundbreaking international science project Einstein Telescope (ET). Einstein Telescope is a planned European gravitational-wave detector of the...

The Netherlands and Flanders pull together for candidacy

The fifth Flemish-Dutch summit took place on 4 November. During this meeting, the highest political level discusses cooperation on specific topics. Minister Van Engelshoven and Minister Crevits also discussed the...

Maastricht University and IBM explore quantum computing possibilities for Einstein Telescope

The future Einstein Telescope may make use of quantum computers. Maastricht University will investigate the possibilities for this together with computer company IBM. The university recently entered the IBM Q...

The E-TEST project: The Euregio Meuse-Rhine prepares for the Einstein Telescope

Today the online kick-off meeting of the project E-TEST takes place. The project is supported and funded by the European Union through its Interreg V-A EMR programme, and coordinated by...

Einstein Telescope application for European roadmap submitted

On September 9th, the Italian government submitted an application to include the Einstein Telescope in the European roadmap for large research infrastructures. The governments of Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and...

Working visit to Maastricht of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

On Monday 3 August, representatives of the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia came to Maastricht for a working visit. This Benelux group of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia wanted to be...

The Einstein Telescope and industry: exploring technological challenges together

The Einstein Telescope comes with unique technical challenges that cannot be solved by science alone. That’s why collaboration with industry is important. During webinars on July 1st and 15th specialists...

BMBF funding for Einstein Telescope preparations

Fourteen German universities and research institutions receive a total of around 2 million euros from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This grant allows physicists and geophysicists to...

Concrete progress for ETpathfinder

A lot of talk has been going around about the prototype for a new generation of gravitational wave detector: ETpathfinder. And now, after many months of careful planning and preparation,...