The EC made public the final Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment on July 20, 2022. The agreement sets a shared direction for changes in assessment practices for research, researchers and research performing organisations, with the overarching goal to maximise the quality and impact of research. You can download the final agreement here. Read the EC [...]
The ESCAPE Final Event, the conference ESCAPE to the future will take place on October 25-26, 2022 in Brussels/BE. Participants can join the conference in person or through remote connection. Limit of participants in person: 150; registration is open until September 24, 2022. More here.
The European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (EAS) 2023 will take place from July 10 to 14, 2023 in Krakow, Poland. The call for sessions is out, you find relevant information here. Deadline: September 30, 2022. Proposals should be submitted via online.
ASTRONET first started in 2005 as a consortium of European funding agencies and research organisations and is now a self-sustained group of funding agencies and associated bodies. The network aims at encouraging a common science vision for all of European astronomy. Astronet is working on the next Science Vision and Infrastructure Roadmap to include all [...]
The Max Planck Institut for Radio Astronomy´s call for APEX Proposals 2022 is open. See the call here. Deadline: 11 August 2022 (18:00 CEST) Image: © ESO
The European Commission has launched two new calls for evidence for the interim evaluation of Horizon Europe and the post-evaluation of Horizon 2020. These initiatives will help evaluate the first results of Horizon Europe’s research and innovation actions funded by the EU and the outputs and impact of the entire Horizon 2020 programme. Deadline for [...]
The ERC has announced its Work Programme for 2023 with a total budget of around €2.2 billion for grants. This amount will support more than a thousand top researchers across Europe. Established by the ERC Scientific Council, the Work Programme 2023 has been adopted on July 11, 2022 by the European Commission. Find the ERC [...]
The call for proposals of the 100-m radio telescope (Effelsberg/DE) of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy is open. Deadline for proposal submission: 29 September 2022, 15:00 UT. Find the call here. Image: © N. Tacken (MPIfR)
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images in a [...]
About 1800 scientists from around the globe attended the European Astronomical Society (EAS 2022) Annual Meeting in Valencia. Opticon RadioNet Pilot project (ORP) was subject of several presentations on the special session European Forum of Astronomical Communities on 30 June 2022, a special platform at the EAS meetings launched at the EAS Meeting in 2017 [...]