The European Innovation Council (EIC) is a key novelty of Horizon Europe and represents the most ambitious innovation initiative that Europe has taken, with a budget of €10 billion for the period 2021-2027. The EIC has a mission to identify, develop and scale-up breakthrough technologies and disruptive innovations. The first calls for applicants are planned [...]
RadioNet Newsletter 2/2021 has been issued. Read it here.
EC created a FAQs section where frequent questions on submitting articles for publication on Open Research Europe (ORE) are answered. Read the FAQs here.
EC published a Q&A confirming that UK entities are already eligible to apply for calls of Horizon Europe. It explains the process, scope and main features of UK’s association to Horizon Europe. Read more here.
The Special Session SS11 on the European Astronomical Society virtual meeting EAS 2021 will be held on June 29, 2021. The SS11 session Extreme astrophysics at extremely high resolution focusses on highlighting the latest scientific results of high-resolution radio instruments, such as the European VLBI Network (EVN) and similar arrays, with particular focus on the synergies with high resolution [...]
After a seven-month-long journey, on Feb. 18, 2021 NASA’s Perseverance Rover successfully landed on the red Planet. NASA's Perseverance spacecraft blazed through the Martian atmosphere and touched surface of the Red Planet, in the area of the Jezero crater. On the picture (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ) you see the first image NASA’s Perseverance rover sent back [...]
RadioNet came to an end on 31 December 2020, completing over 20 years of a remarkably successful series of EU-supported projects. During these years, RadioNet evolved into a widely-recognized consortium offering competitive European infrastructures in the range from sub-mm to meter waves. RadioNet also fostered Europe-wide collaboration in innovative technical development and it helped to [...]
Today, February 18, 2021, 9pm (CET), the current Mars mission called 'Mars 2020' with its rover 'Perseverance' will land on the red planet. Details for watching online here. Details can be found on NASA's info site of the mission.
On May 24-27, 2021 the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU’s) Commission C2 — Communicating Astronomy with the Public (CAP) — will host the CAP 2021. The central theme will be Communicating Astronomy with the Public in the Age of Global Crises. Thanks to generous support from The Kavli Foundation, which has provided a grant to strengthen the IAU’s public [...]
The International LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) Telescope (ILT) is looking for a Policy Officer. First application deadline is March 8, 2021 ILT is a world-leading distributed radio astronomy research infrastructure, with cohesively operated facilities, in part owned by a steadily growing number of diverse partners around Europe, and anchored by ASTRON (the Netherlands Institute for [...]