Astronomy resources in Europe

Institutions

• ESA science programme
• ESO
• IRAM — Institute for Radio Astronomy
• JIVE — Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe

European networks

• APPEC — AstroParticle Physics European Coordination
• ASTRONET
• Europlanet
• HELAS — European Helio and Asteroseismology Network
• Radionet
• Opticon
• GREAT — Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training

Societies

• IAU — International Astronomical Union

Journals

• A&A — Astronomy & Astrophysics
• A&ARv — The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review

IYA 2009

International Year of Astronomy 2009

In September 2008 the EAS Council announced its proposal to partly finance a selection of projects that were officially affiliated to the International Year of Astronomy 2009 and were in need of complementary funding. The 4 selected projects are:

• Austria: "Astrophotography exhibition: a journey through the Universe"
• Portugal: "From Earth to the Universe in Portugal"
• Spain: "Tales of the Stars"
• Ukraine: "The first Ukrainian Internet Telescope"