GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science

Provider

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

Programme

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Call for proposals

FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2

Main participants

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Contest type

RP - Co-financing of EC programme

Contract ID

MSMT-1840/2013-310

Project name in Czech

GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science

Annotation in Czech

GLORIA is an innovative citizen-science network of robotic telescopes, which will give free access and research to a virtual community via the Internet. The GLORIA partners will offer access to a growing collection of robotic telescopes via a Web 2.0 environment - 17 telescopes on 4 continents by the project?s end. The GLORIA partners can do this because most of the telescopes are already robotized using the same free/open-source RTS2 software (maintained by GLORIA members), and the web access will be based on Ciclope Astro (also by a GLORIA member), which currently provides the world?s first free-access robotic telescope at Montegancedo Observatory (http://om.fi.upm.es). The Internet experiments will be coordinated by Galaxy Zoo (http://galaxyzoo.org). The challenge will be to involve people from around the world, to maximise their collective intelligence, and to foster their participation in astronomy research both in data analysis and actual observations. The e-Infrastructure will be managed usingthe method of karma, proven in most successful web 2.0 sites, whereby those users who participate the most are awarded corresponding observing time. GLORIA will be an e-Science network for the virtual community, demonstrating how networking and open e-Infrastructures can increase the quality of research. During the project, 17 telescopes and 2 experiments will be deployed for these citizen scientists, and a foundation will be built up of documentation, free software, and a community of people will havegrown, to maintain and grow GLORIA into the future. Significant dissemination efforts will be made to draw in ordinary people, as well as scholars, to use the network, to learn about astronomy, and to do real science. Currently, GLORIAs telescopes are individually supported from national funds and as this should continue, the network will not bear the cost of their maintenance. GLORIA can easily survive in the future with minimal national funding or even donations.

R&D category

ZV - Basic research

CEP classification - main branch

BN - Astronomy and celestial mechanics, astrophysics

CEP - secondary branch

BF - Elementary particle theory and high energy physics

CEP - another secondary branch

JD - Use of computers, robotics and its application

10303 - Particles and field physics
10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
20204 - Robotics and automatic control
20205 - Automation and control systems

Provider evaluation

U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)

Project results evaluation

Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.

Realization period - beginning

Oct 3, 2012

Realization period - end

Oct 1, 2014

Project status

U - Finished project

Latest support payment

Mar 27, 2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data delivery code

CEP15-MSM-7E-U/01:1

Data delivery date

Jul 2, 2015

Total approved costs

158 thou. CZK

Public financial support

158 thou. CZK

Other public sources

0 thou. CZK

Non public and foreign sources

0 thou. CZK