Looking closely at protoplanetary discs with the European ELT and it instruments

In this talk we will present the prospects for exploring the innermost regions of protoplanetary discs with the new European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Construction of the telescope is underway and the suite of instruments that will be available at first light and beyond are being designed. Most of these instruments will be equipped with adaptive optics systems that will reach the diffraction limit of the enormous 39-m telescope aperature. When coupled with a strong emphasis on observations at infrared wavelengths (0.8-19microns), the telescope and its instruments are expected to compliment JWST and ALMA perfectly and to add significantly to our knowledge of the physics and chemistry of discs. Details of the instruments will be presented along with some of the disc-related science cases that will be enabled by the new facility