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Observing proposals are invited for the European VLBI Network (EVN). The deadline for proposal submission is 1 October 2022 at 16:00 UTC. See the Call for Proposals text here for full information about the call and how to submit proposals.

The September 2022 issue of the EVN/JIVE Newsletter is now available and includes relevant updates of the European VLBI Network.

On 25-26 October 2022, the H2020 ESCAPE Project is organising its Final Event at the Royal Belgium Institute of Natural Sciences, located in Brussels (Belgium). The event will also be accessible through remote connection and registration is open until 24 September 23:59 CEST.

On 28 July 2022, a delegation of the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) visited JIVE headquarters in Dwingeloo, the Netherlands.

In February 2022, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (India) achieved a new milestone in the path towards enabling their VLBI capabilities by completing two coordinated experiments conducted along with telescopes of the European VLBI Network (EVN), where Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) fringes with the GMRT were detected successfully.

The JIVE Annual Report 2021 is now available. It presents a summary of JIVE’s many activities throughout the year.

On 23 June 2022, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science Robbert Dijkgraaf opened the newly furnished Big Questions theme room of the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, the Netherlands. The new content of the exhibition features an interview of JIVE Chief Scientist and Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration Project Director Huib van Langevelde, who also participated in the opening, giving a keynote address.

From 27 June to 1 July 2022, JIVE and the European VLBI Network (EVN) will be participating as exhibitors at the European Astronomical Society 2022 (EAS 2022) Annual Meeting, the largest conference of European astronomy, which will be held in Valencia (Spain).

On 23 June 2022, the H2020 ESCAPE Project is organising the online webinar "ESCAPE VO | Connecting ESFRI data to the EOSC using the VO", including the participation of Marjolein Verkouter, JIVE Head of Technical Operations and R&D. Participation on the webinar is free but registration is mandatory.

The third edition of the Next Generation Space VLBI workshop (ngSVLBI-2022), co-organised by JIVE and ASTRON in Dwingeloo (The Netherlands) will be held on 17-19 October 2022. Registration is now open and the deadline for abstract submission is 15 July 2022.