JIVE, the Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC, is the central organisation in the European VLBI Network (EVN), implementing the central data processing and user services that turn the network of distributed telescopes into a single observatory to study the radio sky at the highest possible resolution. The ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) replaces the JIVE foundation, which was created in 1994. JIVE continues to be hosted by ASTRON (the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands.