The project involves more than 150 researchers of the INAF institutes in Bologna, Catania, Milan, Padua, Palermo, and Rome. The universities of Perugia, Padua, Catania, Genova and the Milan Polytechnic together with the INFN sections of Roma Tor Vergata and Perugia also participate in the project. The University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, the North Western University in South Africa, and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Spain are the international partners of the project. Finally, several Italian and foreign industrial companies actively participated in the project.

Project key persons

• Giovanni Pareschi (Principal Investigator) – giovanni.pareschi@inaf.it
• Salvatore Scuderi (Project Manager) – salvatore.scuderi@inaf.it
• Andrea Giuliani (Project Scientist) – andrea.giuliani@inaf.it

INAF Institutes contact persons

• IASF Milano – Nicola La Palombara
• IASF Palermo – Teresa Mineo
• IAPS Roma – Martina Cardillo
• IRA Bologna – Marcello Giroletti
• OAS Bologna – Andrea Bulgarelli
• OA Brera – Stefano Vercellone
• OA Catania – Giuseppe Leto
• OA Padova – Luca Zampieri
• OA Roma –  Saverio Lombardi

Other Institutes and Universities

• University of Perugia (Italy) – Gino Tosti
• University of Padova (Italy) – Alberto Franceschini
• Fundación Galileo Galilei (Italy and Spain) – Adriano Ghedina
• Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain) – Josefa Becerra
• University of Sao Paulo and FAPESP (Brasil) – Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino
• North Western University (South Africa) – Markus Böttcher
• University of Geneva (Switzerland) – Roland Walter

Public outreach and education

• INDACO Group – Anna Wolter anna.wolter@inaf.it