Support and Funding

The CARACal team acknowledges support from the following institutes:

  • South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)

  • Rhodes University

  • Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari

  • ASTRON

  • Kapteyn Astronomical Institute

  • Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

and from the following funding allocations:

  • Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant number 679627, project name FORNAX)

  • Grant from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI Grant Number ZA18GR02) and the South African Department of Science and Technology’s National Research Foundation (DST-NRF Grant Number 113121) as part of the ISARP Joint Research Scheme.

  • At RUB this work is partly supported by BMBF project 05A17PC2