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Announcing the discovery of gravitational waves – five years later

It’s exactly five years ago that scientists announced that they had managed to detect gravitational waves. The actual first detection was in September 2015, and confirmed a prediction of Albert...

Recording of industrial advisory board meeting online

Collaboration with industry is key, and that’s why the projects E-TEST and ETpathfinder both have an industrial advisory board. On 10 December, the projects organized their industrial advisory board together...

Ministers North Rhine-Westphalia and the Netherlands discuss Einstein Telescope

Around 3 December, two consultations took place between the governments of the Netherlands and North Rhine-Westphalia. Minister Van Engelshoven (Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands) and Minister Pfeiffer-Poensgen (Culture and...

European Einstein Telescope group discusses progress

Although the ESFRI proposal was submitted in September, the more than 700 scientists involved have plenty of work to do. Last week, they discussed their progress during a four-day online...

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...