Maximising the economic and social impact of the implementation of the Einstein Telescope (ET) in Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR)

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Interreg V-A - Belgium-Germany-The Netherlands (Euregio Maas-Rijn) (2014TC16RFCB001), managing authority: Provincie Limburg. Beneficiary: Aachener Gesellschaft für Innovation und Technologietransfer mbH. Location: Euskirchen (NUTS DEA28); Aachen cities region (NUTS DEA2D); Arrondissement of Liège (NUTS BE332); Arrondissement of Nivelles (NUTS BE310); Zuid-Limburg (NUTS NL423); Netherlands; Germany; Belgium. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 2,226,034.25; EU co-financing EUR 1,149,995.91 (co-financing rate 51.66%), as stated by the source. Runs 2021-03-01 to 2023-08-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): By extremely high technical demands on components and systems, large research institutions represent demanding customers for SMEs. Often only small quantities are needed and limited markets are addressed. With the current efforts of the EMR regions for the construction of the Einstein Telescope (ET) for the detection of gravitational waves, there is a chance to establish a large-scale research facility here, which offers simultaneously a great chance esp. to SMEs, to improve their technologies. These innovations can be transferred to other applications and other high demanding markets and, thus, will strengthen the company’s competitiveness. In addition to the technologies used to build the telescope, the following technologies are of particular importance for the operation of the facility: Cryogenics, Controls, (Quantum) optics, Vacuum Technology, Polishing and coating of mirrors, Precision engineering, Me­chatronics, Metrology, Lasers, Sensors, Advanced Materials, Computing / Algorithms and Modelling. It will take several years until the ET is operational. This period should be used to enable SMEs already located in the Greater EMR or start-ups still being founded to benefit from this facility with their products and services. Due to numerous high-tech SMEs and start-ups as well as research institutions and universities,Grea­ter EMR is currently already very well positioned in these enabling technologies on international level. In order to provide the players with the opportunity of a return of investment up to the construction of the ET, related markets like aerospace and automotive, but also other, neighbouring application fields (profiting from the emerging ET technologies), are addressed simultaneously by ET2SMEs. These markets place similarly high demands on products and services in the same technology fields. In the aerospace sector, low temperatures and vacuum are a particular challenge, in the automotive sector, new materials as well as new (optical) [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project aims to maximize the economic and social impact of the Einstein Telescope in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 2,226,034.25, running from March 2021 to August 2023. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.