GREAT is a pan European science driven research infrastructure which will facilitate, through focused interaction on a European scale, the fullest exploitation of the ESA Gaia 'cornerstone' astronomy mission, enabling the European astronomy community to provide answers to the key challenges in our understanding of the Galaxy and Universe.

GREAT (http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/GREAT)  is funded through two major European programmes, both led from the IoA, Cambridge - for more details see:

• GREAT ESF Research Network Prograamme: http://www.great-esf.eu
• GREAT EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network: http://www.great-itn.eu