The Opticon RadioNet Pilot will build the capacities of astronomers and engineers with the knowledge and skills required to take full advantage of astronomical infrastructures. This is essential because the specialist knowledge involved in data acquisition and analysis from different astronomical observations require specialised, tailored training of the user base. This will be done by offering:
- common training schools, where synergies between optical and radio astronomical data analyses can be exploited, encouraging mobility, networking and knowledge transfer between different communities;
- a set of specialised schools and workshops led by experts, where the next generation of users will be trained in the basics and finer points of instruments, data acquisition and analysis from both optical and radio observatories.
Technical schools and workshops in appropriate institutes and observatories will be organised to ameliorate the lack of systematic training in observational astrophysics in most universities, and the progressive disappearance of “training at the telescope”.
Facility | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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EVN | ERIS 2022 | CASA VLBI workshop 2023 | |||
IRAM | 10th IRAM 30-meter School on Millimetre Astronomy | 11th IRAM Interferometry School | 12th IRAM Interferometry School 2024 | ||
e-MERLIN | e-MERLIN data school | ||||
LOFAR | 7th LOFAR DATA School | ||||
ALMA | ALMA Science Archive School | First European ALMA school | |||
NEON | 2022 NEON Observing School | ||||
Synergy |
ORP multi-messenger school/Synergy school
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date | place | meeting |
18-22.11.2024 | Grenoble/FR | 12th IRAM Interferometry School 2024 |
30.09.-04.10.2024 | Granada/ES | ERIS2024 |
02-06.09.2024 | Bonn/DE | 16th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users´ Meeting |
02-06.09.2024 | Dusham/UK | ORP multi-messenger school/Synergy school |
10-14.06.2024 | Manchester/UK | First European ALMA school |
15-19.04.2024 | Dwingeloo/NL | 7th LOFAR DATA School |
23-25.10.2023 | Manchester/UK | e-MERLIN data school |
05-09.06.2023 | Dwingeloo/NL | CASA VLBI workshop 2023 |
17-26.05.2023 | Milan/IT | 2023 ORP Instrumentation School |
20.02.-20.03.2023 | Online | 2023 Proposal Writing School |
21-25.11.2022 | Grenoble/FR | 11th IRAM Interferometry School |
5-7.10.22 | Bologna/IT | ALMA Science Archive School |
19-23.09.2022 | Dwingeloo/NL | ERIS 2022 |
15-19, 22-23.11.2021 | online | 10th IRAM 30-meter School on Millimetre Astronomy |