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project info
Start date: 1 January 2019
End date: 30 June 2023
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 2 295 000,00 €
EU contribution: 1 848 852,00 € (80,56%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.

Mecon-Improvement and consolidation of the Gran Telescopio Canarias

The operation is focused on providing the installation of new services necessary to deal with the increased complexity of the telescope and its astronomical instrumentation, while correcting aspects of obsolescence. Another objective is to improve the efficiency of telescope operations and their performance, and therefore the quality of the scientific data generated._x000D_ _x000D_ This operation will be carried out by the GRANTECAN technical team, hiring the necessary services and supplies to companies, where possible from the Canary region. The developed technical equipment and instruments will be installed in the telescope and at GRANTECAN headquarters in La Palma and Tenerife.

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