Yearly Archives: 2021

The EU has launched the SpaceResearch calls. Total budget over 200M. The grants will fund projects in 22 topics with start dates 2022 and 2023. See the 2021 calls here and the 2022 calls here. Deadline for applications: February 16, 2021.

The Caroline Herschel Medal celebrates the longstanding scientific cooperation between Germany and the United Kingdom. Administered by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in collaboration with the German Astronomical Society (Astronomische Gesellschaft, AG), the medal will be given in alternate years to researchers based in the UK and Germany, with an accompanying prize fund of £10,000 which [...]

The European Commission published a report called Monitoring the open access policy of Horizon 2020. The report examines, monitors and quantifies compliance with the open access requirements of Horizon 2020, for both publications and research data. Not only has this study been commissioned to measure current compliance to open access research policies under Horizon 2020, [...]

The UK’s National Radio Astronomy Facility, e-MERLIN/VLBI, operated from Jodrell Bank Observatory on behalf of STFC, is a unique and world-leading radio astronomy facility for high resolution (0.01-0.1arcsec) imaging at centimetre wavelengths, and is a designated SKA pathfinder instrument. The e-MERLIN/VLBI also provides the UK’s contributions to the European VLBI Network (EVN). Now fully integrated [...]

The call for expressions of interest (EoIs) leading eventually to LOFAR2.0 Large Programme proposals is now open. EoIs are not observing proposals. Rather, these are intended to inform how to best organise community workshops in 2022, in which LOFAR will invite all EoI submitters to together take stock of the ideas and consider how a [...]

The second edition of the IAU WiA newsletter gives a brief update on the activities carried out last month and the encouraging feedback from the participants. Special attention is drawn to the following 7 points / call for participation: 1 - First virtual Training Program series on Essential Skills for Astronomy Research, Nov 8-12th, 2021. [...]

Encouraged by the positive response of the community to its first edition in 2021, the Office for Science in the Directorate of Science is glad to organise the "Hypatia Colloquium" series 2022. PhD students and early postdocs (max 3 years from the PhD) working in any field of theoretical and observational astronomy and astrophysics are [...]

The Korean VLBI Network (KVN) invites scientific proposals for VLBI observations during the 2022A season from astronomers around the world. Observations of successful proposals will be scheduled between January 16 and June 15, 2022. Full details here. Proposals should be submitted via the KVN website. Submission deadline:  1.11.2021, UT 08:00 (KST 17:00)