ACME is an HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01 EU-funded project coordinated by Centre national de la recherche scientifique CNRS aims to realize an ambitious coordinated European-wide optimization of the accessibility and cohesion between multiple leading astroparticle and astronomy research infrastructures, offering access to instruments, data and expertise, focused on the new science of multi-messenger astrophysics.

With 40 world-class collaborating institutions from 15 countries, ACME brings together the astroparticle and astronomy communities in a joint effort to forge a basis for strengthened long-term collaboration between these research infrastructures irrespective of location and level up access opportunities across Europe and beyond.

The ACME project coordinator Prof. Antoine Kouchner (CNRS/Université Paris Cité), and co-coordinator Paolo D’Avanzo (INAF), represent each community to ensure balance and drive cross-domain collaboration.

IFAE and PIC will lead the improvement of transnational access to the MAGIC telescopes, enabling external researchers to propose observations and enhancing the accessibility of MAGIC data and its analysis tools. This will allow a broader scientific community to engage with and interpret very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray data in a multi-wavelength and multi-messenger context. IFAE and PIC will also participate in the development of a Center of Expertise on gamma-rays, aimed at supporting the entire astronomical community by providing specialized knowledge, tools, and resources for gamma-ray research within the framework of multi-messenger astrophysics."