ERIS2017 – Registration is closed
The European Radio Interferometry School 2017, which will take place on 16-20 October 2017 in Dwingeloo/NL is already booked out! Registration is closed. Find here more information
YERAC 2017 / 47th Young European Radio Astronomer´s Conference in Bologna, 18-22 September 2017
The YERAC has been held almost every year since 1968, hosted by the various European Radio Astronomical Institutes. It gives undergraduate, graduate and young post-doctoral students in radio astronomy from all over Europe the opportunity to meet and present their work. For many of the participants, YERAC is the first international meeting and a good [...]
PhD Appointments at the IMPRS for Astronomy & Astrophysics Bonn, Cologne
The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy & Astrophysics is a joint doctoral program between the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (Bonn) and the Universities of Bonn and Cologne. Submission deadline for applications: November 14, 2017 Find more information here and here: imprs2017
Speech of Jo Johnson, UK Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, at the Instruct ERIC inauguration event in London
The UK Research Office in Brüssel informed that Minister Johnson highlighted the importance of collaboration with European and international partners on major science, research and technology initiatives and that modern scientific research nearly always involves the sharing of expertise to tackle the hardest questions, making a link between big science and big opportunities for collaboration. He [...]
Job announcement: PhD position at Bielefeld University
The Faculty of Physics of the University of Bielefeld is looking for a PhD for the project MeerKAT on an part-time basis. Start is October 1, 2017. Find more information here.
Huib van Langevelde steps down as JIVE director
After serving as the director of JIVE for a decade , the long-standing RadioNet Board member Prof Huib van Langevelde steps down as JIVE director. He will take over a different role at JIVE and spend more time on science and development. Read more here. JIVE is beginning the process of selecting a new director. [...]
Independent top advisors call for increased EU investment in research and innovation for the sake of Europe’s future
Shaping the future of Europe's research and innovation - You will find the EC news alert and all the material from the 3 July conference, including the report of the High Level Group.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS – GLOBAL 3mm VLBI ARRAY
VLBI proposals for observing at 3mm wavelength (86 GHz) using the VLBA, GBT*, EFFELSBERG, PICO VELETA, ONSALA, METSAEHOVI, YEBES and KVN telescopes should be submitted by 1 AUGUST 2017 (UT 21:00). Successful proposals will be considered for scheduling in GMVA Session I 2018 (12-17 April 2018) or in a later session. Proposals for GMVA+ALMA observations [...]
Ghana and South Africa celebrate first success of African network of telescopes
News from JIV-ERIC: Ghana and South Africa have announced the first successful detection of fringes during a VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) test experiment with the European VLBI Network (EVN). A 32 metre converted telecommunications antenna at Kutunse, Ghana, was used in the ‘first fringe' detection. The experiment is one of three positive detections, with [...]
IPTA 2017 Science Week
The International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) is a world wide collaboration, made of the contributions of three continental consortia: EPTA in Europe, PPTA in Australia and NanoGRAV in the US. Its primary goal is to detect gravitational waves in the Nanohertz regime using radio pulsar timing observations. The European part of the collaboration is supported [...]