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The Virgo interferometer is officially a IEEE Milestone, along with the two LIGO detectors. On 3rd February 2021 the ceremony of dedication of a IEEE Milestone to the three gravitational wave antennas ‘for the first gravitational waves detection and the launching of the era of Multi Messenger Astronomy with the coordinated detection of gravitational waves

The AHEAD2020 (Integrated Activities for High Energy Astrophysics) project has been funded under the Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructure Program. The AHEAD2020 main goal is to integrate and open research infrastructures for high energy and multi-messenger astrophysics. They offer a wide program of transnational access (TNA) to the best European test and calibration facilities and training/mentoring

During the week of October 4-8, the “Community Planning Meeting” (CPM2020) for the Snowmass 2021 took place. The aim was to developed the plans and the steps to take until the Community Summer Study (CSS) in July 2021. During the CSS a consensus on the key questions and opportunities of particle physics, enabling technologies and

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN, Italy, has reported its final results on the search for the neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay of 76Ge in the December issue of Physical Review Letters [1]. No signal has been observed, but all goals of the final phase of

On November 4, 2020, the International Cosmic Day (ICD) took place for the 9th time. It focuses on the measurement of cosmic rays that surround us all the time, but are mostly unnoticed. During this day students should therefore explore these comsic rays and discover what secrets they bring with. The pandemic posed special challenges

On 9 December, the APPEC General Assembly came together for an online Meeting. The meeting was opened by a welcome from the APPEC Chair Teresa Montaruli and the General Secretary Job de Kleuver. The first topic was on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, as follow-up of the sub-committee report, and how to develop a common strategy

Another KM3NeT/ORCA detector deployment campaign in the Mediterranean was brought to a conclusion in October 2020. A second junction box (JB) has been successfully connected to the KM3NeT/ORCA seafloor network. The JB was deployed to within a metre of its nominal position at a depth of 2450 m. The JB provides the power to the