RadioNet – the European Radio Astronomy Consortium – was established in December 2020 and consists of 25+ key radio astronomy institutes and infrastructures from Europe and beyond. These include all the major radio astronomy telescopes and arrays in Europe, covering a wide range of frequencies and angular resolutions. RadioNet acts to explore cooperative and strategic opportunities for the radio astronomy community.
The RadioNet Consortium is the continuation of a very successful collaboration of EU programmes over the last 20 years and is widely recognised. The RadioNet partners work together on the mechanisms and funding support (often from the EC) to deliver trans-national access to their infrastructures, on R&D to continually improve the capability of these facilities and to educate and train the scientific community to make the best use of these instruments.
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Recent UKRI/STFC Statement on e-MERLIN Funding
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) have announced that operational funding for the e-MERLIN radio interferometer will not be renewed beyond March 2028. In response, the University of Manchester, [...]
Call for Sessions Open for EAS Annual Meeting 2027
The European Astronomical Society (EAS) has opened the Call for Sessions for the EAS Annual Meeting 2027, which will take place 21–25 June 2027 in Vienna, Austria. Researchers are invited to help shape the scientific [...]
EVN Community Survey – Share Your Feedback
The European VLBI Network (EVN) is inviting users and members of the VLBI community to participate in a short anonymous survey ahead of the 17th EVN Symposium and Users' Meeting (14–18 September 2026, Manchester, UK). [...]
ESFRI Publishes Position Paper on Protecting Radio Astronomy Spectrum
The European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has published a new position paper calling for the protection of radio astronomy in the future regulatory framework for the 6425–7125 MHz frequency band. The paper urges [...]
France Joins the SKA Observatory
France has officially become the 14th member state of the SKA Observatory (SKAO), marking a major milestone for the world's largest radio astronomy project. The accession strengthens the Observatory's international partnership and reflects France's long-standing [...]
Pathfinder for the Next Generation Very Large Array
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) have announced a partnership to develop a pathfinder for the proposed Next Generation Very Large Array [...]
- URSI GA: J03 on Radio Astronomy from Space on August 15, 2026
- YERAC 2026 on August 17, 2026
- Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society 2026 on September 7, 2026
- Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society 2026 – Building Blocks of Cosmic Structure on September 7, 2026
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