MPIfR 2022 call for APEX Proposals open
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
EC: Open calls for evaluation of impact of Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020
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 [...]
ERC Work Programme for 2023 adopted: Nearly €2.2b in grants
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 [...]
100-m Effelsberg radio telescope: Open call for proposals
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)
James Webb Space Telescope: sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date
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 [...]
Official inauguration of NOEMA
On 30 September 2022, the inauguration of the NOEMA Observatory by Antoine Petit (CNRS President), Martin Stratmann (MPG President) and Karl Schuster (IRAM Director) will take place; official addresses with an introductory statement by Prof. Reinhard Genzel, Physics Nobel Laureate 2020, in the Superdévoluy ski resort.
Three NRF-SARChI postdoctoral positions in VLBI
Applications are invited for multiple research positions focused on exploiting high angular resolution radio astronomy. The scientific goals of the project are to study the properties of dark matter, understand black hole activity and resolve star-formation processes in galaxies across cosmic time. The positions are part of a new initiative to develop Very Long Baseline [...]
ORP lanced a questionnaire to find out the users´ needs for astronomical infrastructures
The Opticon RadioNet Pilot (ORP) project brings together two mature communities, optical/IR and radio/sub-mm to work towards the harmonization and improvement of services of astronomical infrastructures and of the access to them. ORP offers access to many of the world’s premier optical/IR and radio telescopes and arrays and aims to develop various services to aid scientific [...]
EC: Page with all information on lump sum funding in Horizon Europe
Horizon Europe uses lump sum funding to reduce administration and financial errors and to make the programme simpler by removing the need to report actual costs. This makes the access to the programme easier, especially for small organisations and newcomers. Here you find the EC page with all information on lump sum funding in Horizon Europe. It is updated [...]
NIAS-Lorentz Program calls for coordinators for the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group
The NIAS-Lorentz Program calls for coordinators for the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group (NLTG) 2023/2024. The deadline for application with a pre-proposal is September 1, 2022. The NIAS-Lorentz Program is a collaboration established in 2006 by NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam) and the Lorentz Center (workshop center for all scientific disciplines, [...]