The NRAO will host the 18th Synthesis Imaging Workshop on 18-25 May 2022 (virtual format). The workshop will introduce the participants to aperture synthesis theory and techniques, data calibration, imaging, and analysis methods. The participants will have a chance to see examples and work on data from the Very Large Array (VLA), Very Long Baseline [...]
The Commission adopted on February 9, 2022 the EIC Work Programme 2022. This programme opens funding opportunities worth over €1.7 billion in 2022 for breakthrough innovators to scale up and create new markets, for example in quantum computing, new generation batteries and gene therapy. Launched in March 2021 as a major novelty of the Horizon [...]
See the open ERC Advanced Grant Call 2022 here.
The SKA Observatory (SKAO) has been selected, along with NSF’s NOIRLab, to co-host a new centre that aims to mitigate the impact of satellites on astronomical observations. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) signed a memorandum of understanding with the two co-hosts on February 2, 2022 enacting the creation of a Centre for the Protection of [...]
See here the tentative ERC 2023 call calendar - the dates of the calls are still tentative and subject to change.
The Commission has called for organisations to express their interest in being part of a coalition on reforming research assessment. The coalition will bring together research funding organisations, research performing organisations, national/regional assessment authorities or agencies, associations of research funders, of research performers, of researchers, as well as, learned societies and other relevant organisations, all [...]