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Following recent investigations of the solar coronal heating problem, the scientific community is in agreement on the need for the stronger use of data for benchmarking theoretical models. In this respect, the role of spectroscopy combined with imaging is now considered as a high priority. Among the possible scenarios, the physics acting at unresolved small scales is considered to have a predominant role in the global heating. New missions, such as Solar-B, STEREO and SDO, will soon deliver high resolution spectroscopic and imaging data. In this project we propose gathering together specialists of different, but complementary, disciplines to develop methodologies to couple the data from new missions and the predictions from state-of-the-art theoretical models in order to provide major advances in our understanding of coronal heating. We will concentrate our efforts on:
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Web curator: Susanna Parenti