ESO signed an agreement with an international consortium to build and operate MAVIS (Multi-conjugate-adaptive-optics-Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph), a unique instrument to be installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) that will provide images up to three times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope. MAVIS will tackle a range of research questions, from how the [...]
AERAP will organise the "Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Summit" from June 14-18, 2021. This virtual event will enhance science and innovation cooperation between Africa and Europe and build on key policy and programme initiatives to establish a more enabling environment for science and innovation policy codesign, programme cooperation and capacity building. Registration and full information is available [...]
The Horizon Europe Info Days 2021 will take place June 28-July 9, 2021. The 10-day event will give the opportunity to prospective applicants, and other stakeholders of EU research and innovation, to get information and ask questions about what’s new, main funding instruments and processes of Horizon Europe. Find full information here.
The European Commission adopted a Communication on its Global Approach to Research and Innovation, Europe's strategy for international cooperation in a changing world. With this, the EU aims to take a leading role in supporting international research and innovation partnerships, and to deliver innovative solutions to make our societies green, digital and healthy. Read full information [...]
Two respected science infrastructure experts have been appointed to lead construction activities at the telescope sites of the SKAO, respectively located in the Karoo in South Africa and in Western Australia. Tracy Cheetham, currently the head of construction planning for the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), will be the site construction director of the [...]
The Horizon 2020 project ESCAPE has produced a video explaining how ESCAPE is accelerating scientific discoveries by ensuring open access and long-term data usability for astronomy, particle & nuclear physics, while contributing to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), a vision of the European Commission of a large infrastructure to support and develop open science and [...]
Find here the RadioNet Newsletter issue 05/2021.
A detailed report of the ALMA Cycle 8 2021 Proposal Submission Statistics is now available. The report provides a summary of items such as the number of submitted proposals and time requested, subscription rates, and comparisons with the number of hours requested in previous Cycles.See the report here.
The 7th International Scientific Conference Baltic Applied Astroinformatics and Space data Processing” (BAASP) will be held on September 23-24, 2021 at Ventspils University of Applied Sciences as online event, organized by the Engineering Research Institute “Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre”. The BAASP Conferences are intended as a collaboration platform for cross border partnership and knowledge [...]
The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced that it has funded its 10.000th researcher and the RadioNet community congratulates heartily the ERC and all the grantees. The ERC grants come in different categories, e.g. for researchers starting or consolidating their careers, for collaborations, and for advanced leaders in their fields. The grants have in common that [...]