Three suitable deep-sea sites are identified, namely going from west to east, KM3NeT-Fr, off-shore Toulon (France), KM3NeT-It, off-shore Portopalo di Capo Passero (Italy) and KM3NeT-Gr, off-shore Pylos (Greece). The first phase of construction of the KM3NeT 2.0 Research Infrastructure began in 2015 at the KM3NeT-It and KM3NeT-Fr sites and is expected to be finished in 2028. For this a Letter of Intent for KM3NeT 2.0 has been published and a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by all participating funding agencies. Within the framework of KM3NET-INFRADEV2 (EU-HORIZON programme) the Collaboration is aiming to adopt an AISBL legal entity in the near future.
The KM3NET RI provides to its collaboration members and the world-wide Astroparticle community information on the directions, energies and flavour of its detected neutrinos.
Deep sea optical and acoustic noise data is made available to the Earth and Sea science community.
COOPERATION WITH OTHER RIs
The KM3NeT Collaboration has established MOUs with several other astronomical observatories (IceCube, CTA, HESS, LHASSO, HAWC, Fermi, SVOM, Master, Grandma, etc).
The KM3NeT sites are part of the EMSO Consortium.
KM3NeT is involved in several EU projects with other RIs: ASTERICS, ESCAPE, REINFORCE, EOSC, OSCARS, ACME.