Published on 27 February 2006

Council of the European Southern Observatory meets for first time in Switzerland

Bern, 27.2.2006 - The council of the European Southern Observatory, ESO, is meeting for the first time in Switzerland. On the agenda of the two-day conference 27-28 February in Bern is discussion of current and planned projects, the financing of long-term and strategic plans and requests by different European countries to participate in ESO activities as full members. The invitation to hold the 66th meeting of the ESO in Switzerland came from the State Secretariat for Education and Research, SER.