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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 ecosystemAdvertised on -
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The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) announces the death of its founding director, Professor Francisco Sánchez Martínez, whose determination led to the creation of one of Europe's leading research centres and two of the world's finest astrophysical observatories: the Teide Observatory in Tenerife and the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma. He passed away today in Madrid, where he had been living for the last few years, at the age of 89. The director of the IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet, emphasises that "Professor Sánchez's legacy is incalculable. He was a man who pavedAdvertised on