1. Studentships Advertisement in Messenger and on the Web http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/adm/pers/vacant/studentship2007.html This is your chance to get a student with somebody in the community! Application deadline: 15 June

2. New Fellows Chile Garching

3. Workshops 2008 Proposals have been solicited (mail from 5 March) Deadline: 15 April

4. Head of the Office for Science Chile Deadline for applications: 31 March

5. ESA opportunities Call for Proposals for the first planning cycle for the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 published http://sci.esa.int/cv2015

6. Offices in Garching The aim is to bring all astronomers together back into the main building. Details are still being worked out at the moment.

7. European Research Council ERC Starting Independent Research Grant call now open for people who are between two and nine years after their PhD to start up a research group http://erc.europa.eu/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.display&topicID=65 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant will be announced before autumn 2007 http://erc.europa.eu/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.display&topicID=66