These are the slides of a talk on the FP7 Collaborative Project "Exploitation of Space Data for Innovative Helio- and Asteroseismology - SpaceInn". This talk was held on Tenerife during the SpaceInn Global Helioseismology working group meeting in March 2014.

Anne-Marie Broomhall, Yvonne Elsworth, Sanjay Gosain, Frank Hill, Oskar v.d. Lühe

Presentation on the need for synoptic observations of the Sun. This presentation was given at the 2nd SPRING workshop in Tatranska Lomnica, October 14, 2014.

Presentation given at 11th European Space Weather Week by Alexei Pevtsov PRING is a project to develop a geographically distributed network of instrumentation to obtain synoptic solar observations. Building on the demonstrated success of networks to provide nearly-continuous long-term data for helioseismology, SPRING will provide data for a wide range of solar research areas. Scientific objectives include internal solar dynamics and structure; wave transport in the solar atmosphere; the evolution of the magnetic field over the activity cycle; irradiance fluctuations; and space weather origins. Anticipated data products include simultaneous full-disk multi-wavelength Doppler and vector magnetic field images; filtergrams in H-Alpha, CaK, and white light; and PSPT-type irradiance support. The data will be obtained with a duty cycle of around 90% and at a cadence no slower than one minute. The current concept is a multi-instrument platform installed in at least six locations, and which will also provide context information for large-aperture solar telescopes such as EST and the DKIST. There is wide support for the idea within the EU and the US solar research communities. The project is in the early planning stages, and we are open to and looking for participants in the science and instrument definition.

These are the slides of the opening of the Solarnet III / HELAS VII / SpaceInn Conference in Freiburg, August 31, 2015.