An international team including UCL researchers have received €3 million from the European Union to complete a conceptual study of a telescope that could become operational in Chile after 2040. The consortium aims to propose the Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) as a candidate project to become the next major observatory infrastructure of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) after the completion of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in the Chilean Andes.