The Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry European Research Infrastructure Consortium (JIVE) was established by a decision of the European Commission in December 2014, and assumed the activities and responsibilities of the JIVE foundation, which was established in December 1993. JIVE's mandate is to support the operations and users of the European VLBI Network (EVN), in the widest sense. Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is a type of astronomical interferometry used in radio astronomy. It allows observations of an object that are made simultaneously by many telescopes to be combined, emulating a telescope with a size equal to the maximum separation between the telescopes. Normally the participating radio telescopes function individually, working on their own specific projects. In the case of VLBI, they all observe the same source at the same time, allowing much higher spatial resolution. There are many complex and challenging hurdles that need to be overcome to enable this effort. One challenge is the data processing requirement. JIVE operates the EVN data processor, known as the correlator - a special-purpose supercomputer for astronomical VLBI data correlation. Organisation of JIVE JIVE is located in Dwingeloo, the Netherlands and is hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON). JIVE has seven members: The Netherlands, represented by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) France, represented by the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Latvia, represented by the Ministry of Education and Science (IZM) Spain, represented by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA) Sweden, represented by the Swedish Research Council (VR) The United Kingdom, represented by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Italy, represented by the Istitutio Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) JIVE is also supported by the following participating research institutes: National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC), China Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), Germany National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy National Research Federation (NRF), South Africa There are currently 22 telescopes in the EVN. Observations using the EVN can also be carried out in real-time, thus earning the name of e-VLBI (electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry). The telescopes are then linked via high-speed national research and education networks (NRENs) which overcome some of the performance drawbacks of TCP/IP and UDP/IP (networking protocols) to allow sharing large volumes of data for immediate use. Such high-speed networks eliminate the shipping of disks of data from separate