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On behalf of everyone at the Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC we would like to wish you, your family and colleagues, and all our partners and stakeholders a happy, peaceful and safe festive season and new year 2022.

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

The Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) invites applications for the position of JIVE Support Scientist to become available from as early as April 2022. The position has a 50%-50% split between support duties and the appointee's own research. Deadline for applications is 1 February 2022.

JIVE Researcher Shivani Bhandari has been the recipient of one of the NWO-Veni grants announced today that will allow her to develop research in the field of Fast Radio Bursts for a period of three years.

The H2020 JUMPING JIVE project, which successfully passed its final review by the European Commission, has been instrumental during the past 4 years in the development and reinforcement of JIVE and the European VLBI Network (EVN) activities in key aspects for their sustainability that will impact the VLBI community in the next decades.

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 2022 Summer Research Programme. Deadline for applications is 1 February 2022 00:00 CET.

The European VLBI Network (EVN) is pleased to announce the second edition of the series of online seminars “The sharpest view of the radio Universe: VLBI – Connecting Astronomers Worldwide”. Five seminars will cover different science topics illustrating how Very Long Baseline Interferometry can improve our understanding of many astronomical phenomena and how this technique is useful for the whole astronomical community. The new seminars will start on 29 November 2021 and will be organised around every six weeks, leading up to the organisation of the 2022 EVN Symposium on 11-15 July 2022.

The September 2021 issue of the EVN/JIVE Newsletter is now available and includes relevant updates of the European VLBI Network (EVN).

Observing proposals are invited for the European VLBI Network (EVN). The deadline for proposal submission is 1 October 2021 at 16:00 UTC.

On 1 September 2021, the Session "Very Long Baseline Interferometry" will highlight the relevance of VLBI in the fields of astrophysics, Earth and planetary sciences. The session is co-organised by JIVE as part of the XXXIV General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS 2021) that will be held in Rome (Italy) from 28 August to 4 September 2021