The Open Clusters Chemical Abundances from Spanish Observatories survey (OCCASO) aims to obtaining high-resolution spectra (R<65,000) in the optical range (500-800 nm) for Red Clump (RC) stars in Northern hemisphere OCs. This survey systematically targets OCs with at least six RC stars per cluster, with a signal-to-noise around 70. It was designed to obtain precise radial velocities and detailed chemical abundances in OCs to analyze their kinematics and chemical trends in the Galactic disk.

The WEAVE (WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer) Galactic survey aims to determine chemical abundances and radial velocities for several million of stars complementing the Gaia mission. 

The 4MOST is a fibre-fed spectroscopic survey facility on the VISTA telescope with a large enough field-of-view to survey a large frac­tion of the southern sky in a few years. The facility will be able to simultaneously obtain spectra of ~2400 objects distributed over a hexagonal field-of-view of 4.2 square degrees. This high multiplex of 4MOST, combined with its high spectral resolution, will enable detection of chemical and kinematic substructure in the stellar halo, bulge and thin and thick discs of the Milky Way. Thus, help unravel the origin of our home galaxy. The instrument will also have enough wavelength coverage to secure velocities of extra-galactic objects over a large range in red­shift, thus enabling measurements of the evolution of galaxies, black holes, and the structure of the cosmos.