Looking back on ETpathfinder's opening

On November 8, Ingrid van Engelshoven - the Demissionary Minister of Education, Culture and Science - opened ETpathfinder during a festive ceremony in Maastricht. Allow us to take you through the day's highlights by means of a photo report.

ETpathfinder is a state-of-the-art physics laboratory, which will serve as a testing ground for the development of technologies for future gravitational wave detectors. ETpathfinder’s arrival also strengthens the border region’s position as a candidate location for the new European gravitational wave detector, the Einstein Telescope. Read more

Photography: Philip Driessen

ETpathfinder is realised with support from Interreg Flanders-Netherlands, funded by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.

Interreg Flanders-Netherlands

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