On Tuesday, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) held a workshop at the Museum of Science and the Cosmos in Tenerife (Spain), focused on promoting successful participation in the European Research Council (ERC) calls for proposals under the European Horizon Europe framework programme, the European Union’s main instrument for funding research and innovation. The event, organised as part of the Alpha Star project (funded by the Spanish State Research Agency Ref. GPE2025-001690-P), brought together research staff from the IAC and other organisations within the regional R&D ecosystem

On 10 and 11 June, the IACTEC facilities – the technology transfer and business collaboration hub of the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) – will host the meeting of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Science Programme Committee (SPC), the body responsible for deciding how funds allocated to ESA’s science programme should be managed and for what purposes. The meeting in Tenerife brings together representatives from the 23 ESA member states and specialists involved in the planning, selection and monitoring of the scientific projects that will shape European space science in the

The European Solar Telescope (EST) project has taken a decisive step towards construction with the establishment of the Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR), marking the first formal commitment at the governmental level to this European flagship in solar research. Until now, EST has been driven by a scientific consortium of universities and research institutions across Europe. The creation of the BGR transforms EST into a collaboration among European nations, whose national governments lend political support to the project and to the creation of a future European Solar Telescope