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On 1 December 2022, JIVE concluded its Gender Equality Plan, which will contribute towards improving the diversity in the organisation as well as establishing a fairer and safer work environment.

The Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) announce up to 7 grants for students to participate in the ASTRON/JIVE 2023 Summer Research Programme. Deadline for applications is 1 February 2023 23:59 CET.

On 17-19 October 2022, JIVE and ASTRON co-hosted the 3rd Next Generation VLBI workshop (ngSVLBI-3) in Dwingeloo, the Netherlands. The hybrid workshop was attended both in-person and remotely by about 90 participants from all over the world.

On Wednesday 26 October JIVE joined many of Europe's biggest facilities in physics-related disciplines cementing a long-term deal to commit to sharing and processing open data. This agreement was presented at the “ESCAPE to the Future” conference where partners of the H2020 ESCAPE project as well as members of the scientific community and the European Commission gathered at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science in Brussels (Belgium).

The CASA package is now capable of calibrating the majority of VLBI observations. The new tasks and functionalities to process and calibrate VLBI observations - whose implementation has been led by JIVE - are described in a paper published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) journal. In addition to a description of the software, a comparison with AIPS processing is included, demonstrating the results are virtually identical. This paper appears jointly with the new CASA reference paper, which gives a high-level overview of the entire CASA package.

Over 70 students from all over the world participated in the 9th European Radio Interferometry School (ERIS 2022) hosted by JIVE and ASTRON in Dwingeloo (the Netherlands) on 19-23 September 2022.

On Sunday 2 October 2022, we will open our doors to visitors during the Dutch Weekend of Science, which will comprise hundreds of events all over the Netherlands.

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.