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Although the Einstein Telescope will be located below ground, its construction will also impact many factors above ground. This is the domain of Johan Rutten, Environment and Sustainability Manager at the Einstein Telescope Project Office - EMR. 'My focus is on the added values the Einstein Telescope hopefully will provide for landscape, nature, agriculture, sustainability, tourism and business, all with minimal disruption and disturbance.'

In our new video series ‘People of Einstein Telescope’, you can meet the people behind the Einstein Telescope. In short videos, they introduce themselves and share their passion, commitment and enthusiasm for the Einstein Telescope. The first episode will be released in January. Stay tuned to our socials!

From the management of the project office for the Einstein Telescope – Euregio Meuse-Rhine project, Hans Plets and Stan Bentvelsen look back on a hectic 2024. And they are already looking ahead to next year.

Where in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregio can and may the Einstein Telescope be built? Landscape architect Mike Tomassen from HeusschenCopier Landschapskracht mapped the existing uses and policies of the landscape in the Einstein Telescope search area.

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How can the economies and societies in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands benefit from the arrival of the Einstein Telescope? A new expert committee on valorisation and impact aims to incentivise companies and knowledge institutions in the three countries to work together for the long term.

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Giacomo Bruno, professor at UCLouvain and experimental physicist, is a key player in gravitational wave research. Until 2018, he conducted his research at CERN. In this interview, he explores the links between CERN and the ET.

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The tunnels of the Einstein Telescope will be as straight as the lasers running through them. So straight that they are actually slanting again, because those lasers do not bend with the curvature of the earth. As a result, the vertices of the underground tunnels are two metres closer to the earth's surface than the centre of each tunnel. A negligible number compared with the much larger elevation differences in the landscape, but it is nevertheless measurable. This is because even at the tunnel ends, gravity does not point perpendicularly downwards, but is angled at 1/25th of a degree towards the centre of the earth. As a human, you don't feel that false flat, but the mirrors of the Einstein Telescope do have to tilt slightly to still point perfectly at each other.

On 4 December, POM Limburg, FWO and the Leuven Gravity Institute organised a teachers’ day especially for STEM and science teachers. 

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How much noise from vibrations is produced in the search and protection area of the Einstein Telescope? With passive seismics, this is being investigated. 

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For the work required for the feasibility studies for the Einstein Telescope, the project office is using entrepreneurs from the region as much as possible.

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To make sure the exploratory drilling for the Einstein Telescope does not disturb the surrounding nature, ecologist Joyce Janssen conducted nature research. 

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This newsletter is a publication of Einstein Telescope - Euregio Meuse-Rhine
Editors: Dewi Andoetoe, Gieljan de Vries, Arnaud Stiepen and Henk Schroen

Photos: Jonathan Vos | Video: Submedia
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