The RADIOBLOCKS project will start on 1 March 2023. It is coordinated by JIVE ERIC and including major European research infrastructures for radio astronomy, together with partners from industry and academia, has been granted 10 M€ by the European Commission to develop “common building blocks” for technological solutions beyond state-of-the-art, that will enable a broad [...]
In this call, the Observatory of Yebes (IGN) invites astronomers around the world to submit scientific proposals for the first semester of 2023. This call is oriented to single dish observations and VLBI observations not included in the EVN or GMVA calls. Submission deadline: January 16, 2023, 16:00 UTC.
On December 1, 2022, the EC launched the largest public consultation ever held on the past, present and future of the EU’s Horizon research and innovation programmes 2014-2027. For 12 weeks, stakeholders are encouraged to reply to multiple-choice and open questions and are invited to submit position papers. Stakeholders will be able to share their views on [...]
ALMA ‘s recovery from the cyber-attack is well underway, but it has become clear that the most compact configurations (C-1 and C-2) will not be visited. Information regarding Scheduling Blocks that can only be observed in C-1 and C-2 configurations, will be posted on the Science Portal once the necessary ALMA operations tools and services [...]
The RadioNet newsletter 11/2022 has been issued. Read here.
An international group of scientists including astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) and ALMA present new observations of the first quasar ever identified. Its name is 3C273 and it is located at a distance of approx. 1.9 Billion light years in the Virgo constellation. The new high-resolution radio images trace the [...]
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has signed off the 2021 accounts of all the EU's Joint Undertakings, and confirmed the positive results reported in previous years. See the ECA press release here and the report here.
The EC info day on the Research Infrastructures Work Programme will take place on December 6, 2022. It will focus on the 2023 calls of the Work programme 2023-2024, for its main destinations. More here.
The call for proposals of the 100-m radio telescope (Effelsberg/DE) of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy is open. Access/funding is offered through the ORP project. Deadline for proposal submission: 02 February 2023 (15:00 UT) Find the call here. Image: © N. Tacken (MPIfR)
On November 8, 2022 the Commission has signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment. The Agreement sets a common direction for changes in assessment practices for research, researchers and research organisations, with the goal to maximise the quality and impact of research. That day also marked the Commission’s endorsement of the San Francisco Declaration on [...]