2 February 2026 – The KM3NeT Collaboration gathered last week in the historic heart of Valencia, Spain, for the first Collaboration Meeting of 2026.
The meeting served as an important hub for researchers to discuss the latest data from the ARCA and ORCA detectors, coordinate upcoming sea campaigns, and share progress on neutrino oscillation and multi-messenger astrophysics analyses.
During the meeting, the KM3NeT Collaboration was pleased to welcome Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and University of Turku (Finland), with research teams led respectively by Anna Franckoviak and Elina Lindfors, as our newest observer institutes.
Additionally, the Valencia meeting saw the announcement of the latest winners of the Giorgos Androulakis Prize, which is assigned for recognizing exceptional dedication and achievements by early-career scientists and technicians and engineers
The Collaboration is deeply grateful to the Valencia Experimental Group of Astroparticles (VEGA-IFIC) group and to ADEIT foundation for their hard work and exceptional hospitality.
The next meeting is scheduled to take place in Bratislava, Slovakia, in June.
