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Announcement of Opportunity Status
Briefing meeting in advance of next Call for Medium and Fast missions and of an exploratory call for mini-F proposals in the ESA Science Programme

Registration open: 4 December 2024
Briefing meeting: 11 December 2024, starting at 14:00 CET

Announcement of Opportunity for Complementary Scientists in the LISA Science Team

Open
Proposals due: 22 January 2025, 12:00 (noon) CET

Announcement of Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Scientist in the Comet Interceptor mission Closed
Letters of Intent due: 15 October 2024, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Proposals due: 12 November 2024, 12:00 (noon) CEST

Announcement of Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Scientists for the EnVision mission

Closed
Letters of Intent due: 30 July 2024, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Proposals due: 24 September 2024, 12:00 (noon) CEST

10th Announcement of Opportunity for Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS mission

Closed
Proposals due: 3 June 2024, 12:00 (noon) CEST
CHEOPS 5th Announcement of Opportunity (AO-5): for observations to be carried out between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025 Closed
Phase 1 observing proposals due: 25 April 2024, 12:00 (noon) CEST
XRISM First Announcement of Opportunity for the Guest Observer Programme Closed
Proposals due: 4 April 2024, 12:30 CEST
Announcement of opportunity for Membership of the LISA Science Team Closed
Letters of Intent due: 21 February 2024, 12:00 (noon) CET
Proposals due: 27 March 2024, 12:00 (noon) CET
Announcement of opportunity for Membership of the NewAthena Science Study Team Closed
Letters of Intent due: 21 February 2024, 12:00 (noon) CET
Proposals due: 20 March 2024, 12:00 (noon) CET
Call for Expressions of Interest to become Member of the Astronomy Working Group, Solar System and Exploration Working Group, Space Science Advisory Committee Closed
Proposals due: 22 January 2024, 12:00 CET
Announcement of Opportunity for ESA-appointed representatives to the NASA Great Observatory Maturation Program's (GOMAP) Science, Technology, Architecture Review Team (START) for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission Closed
Letters of Intent due: 1 November 2023, 12:00 (noon) CET
Proposals due: 30 November 2023, 12:00 (noon) CET
Announcement of Opportunity for ESA-appointed scientists in the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission Closed
Letters of Intent due: 15 September 2023, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Proposals due: 20 October 2023, 12:00 (noon) CEST
XMM-Newton 23rd Announcement of Opportunity: for observations to be carried out between May 2024 and April 2025 Closed
Proposals due: 6 October 2023, 12:00 UT
INTEGRAL 21st Announcement of Opportunity: for observations to be carried out in 2024 Closed
Proposals due: 29 September 2023, 14:00 CEST
Announcement of Opportunity for Membership of the CHEOPS Science Team Closed
Proposals due: 4 September 2023, 12:00 (noon) CEST
9th Announcement of Opportunity for Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS mission Closed
Proposals due: 5 June 2023, 12:00 (noon) CEST

Announcement of Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Scientists in the Comet Interceptor mission

Closed
Letter of Intent due: 20 April 2023, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Proposals due: 1 June 2023, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Announcement of Opportunity for membership of the Science Strategy Teams of the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration mission Closed
Proposals due: 22 March 2023, 12:00 (noon) CET
Announcement of Opportunity for ESA appointed scientists to the Science Topical Panels of the Einstein Probe mission Closed
Proposals due: 7 December 2022, 12:00 (noon) CET

Announcement of Opportunity for a Community Scientist in the PLATO Mission

Closed
Proposals due: 29 November 2022, 12:00 (noon) CET
Call for Membership in the Target Identification and Comet Environment Working Groups for the Comet Interceptor mission Closed
Proposals due: 7 November 2022, 12:00 (noon) CET
Announcement of Opportunity for Membership in the SOLAR-C Science Working Group Closed
Proposals due: 3 November 2022, 12:00 (noon) CET
XMM-Newton 22nd Announcement of Opportunity: for observations to be carried out between May 2023 and April 2024 Closed
Proposals due: 7 October 2022, 12:00 UT
Announcement of Opportunity for membership of the NewAthena Science Re-Definition Team Closed
Applications due: 30 September 2022, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Call for Membership in the Venus Science Coordination group (VeSCoor) Closed
Applications due: 30 September 2022, 12:00 (noon) CEST

Call for a Medium-size and a Fast mission opportunity in ESA's Science Programme

Closed
Phase-1 proposals due: 14 February 2022, 12:00 (noon) CET
Phase-2 proposals due: 15 July 2022, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Announcement of Opportunity for XRISM Guest Scientists (XGS) Closed
Letter of Intent due: 4 May 2022, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Proposal due: 4 July 2022, 12:00 (noon) CEST
8th Announcement of Opportunity for Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS mission Closed
Proposal due: 23 May 2022, 12:00 (noon) CEST
INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity for AO-20 Cycle Observations Proposals Closed
Observing time proposals due: 1 April 2022 (14:00 CEST)
Third Announcement of Opportunity (AO-3) for participation in the CHEOPS Guest Observers Programme Closed
Phase-1 proposals due: 15 March 2022 (13:00 CET/12:00 GMT)
Call for Membership in the Expert Committee for the Large mission covering the science theme "Moons of the Giant Planets" Closed
Applications due: 18 January 2022, 12:00 (noon) CET
XMM-Newton 21st Announcement of Opportunity: for observations to be carried out between May 2022 and April 2023 Closed
Proposals due: 8 October 2021, 12:00 UT
Announcement of Opportunity for community scientists in the Ariel mission Closed
Letters of Intent due: 9 July 2021, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Proposals due: 31 August 2021, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Announcement of Opportunity for an ESA appointed scientist in the Einstein Probe mission Closed
Letters of Intent due: 9 July 2021, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Proposals due: 31 August 2021, 12:00 (noon) CEST
7th Announcement of Opportunity for Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS mission Closed
Proposals due: 19 April 2021 (14:00 CEST)
INTEGRAL 19th Announcement of Opportunity: for observations to be carried out between January 2022 and December 2022 Closed
Proposals due: 9 April 2021 (14:00 CEST)
Announcement of Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Scientists and Guest Investigators in the ExoMars 2022 mission Closed
Letters of Intent due: 12 January 2021, 12:00 (noon) CET
Proposals due: 15 February 2021, 12:00 (noon) CET
Second Announcement of Opportunity (AO-2) for participation in the CHEOPS Guest Observers Programme (covering the period March 26 2021 to March 25 2022) Closed
Proposals due: 1 December 2020 (13:00 CET/12:00 GMT)
XMM-Newton 20th Announcement of Opportunity: for observations to be carried out between May 2021 and April 2022 Closed
Proposals due: 9 October 2020 (12:00 UT)
INTEGRAL 18th Announcement of Opportunity: for observations to be carried out between January 2021 and December 2021 Closed
Proposals due: 4 May 2020 (14:00 CEST)
Note change of submission date
6th Announcement of Opportunity for Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS mission Closed
Proposals due: 30 April 2020 (12:00 CEST)
XMM-Newton 19th Announcement of Opportunity: for observations to be carried out between May 2020 and April 2021

Closed
Proposals due: 11 October 2019, 12:00 UT

Announcement of opportunity for membership of the Science Board of the Martian Moons eXploration Mission (MMX)

Closed
Proposals due: 20 August 2019, 12:00 (noon) CEST

Voyage 2050
Call for White Papers for the Voyage 2050 long-term plan in the ESA Science Programme

Closed
White Papers due: 5 August 2019, 12:00 (noon) CEST

Announcement of Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Scientists and Guest Investigators in the BepiColombo mission

Closed
Letters of Intent due: 13 June 2019, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Proposals due: 15 July 2019, 12:00 (noon) CEST

Call for proposals for an ESA-ESO workshop in 2020

Closed
Proposals due: 5 June 2019, 14:00 CEST

Announcement of Opportunity for the CHEOPS Guest Observers Programme

Closed
Proposals due: 16 May 2019, 14:00 CEST

5th Announcement of Opportunity for Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS mission

Closed
Proposals due: 15 May 2019, 12:00 (noon) CEST

Voyage 2050
Call for Membership of Topical Teams for the Voyage 2050 long-term plan in the ESA Science Programme

Closed
Applications due: 6 May 2019, 12:00 (noon) CEST

Announcement of Opportunity for the Cluster Guest Investigator and Early Career Scientist Programme

Closed
Letters of Intent due: 28 March 2019, 12:00 (noon) CET
Proposals due: 29 May 2019, 12:00 (noon) CEST

INTEGRAL 17th Announcement of Opportunity: for observations to be carried out between January 2020 and December 2020

Closed
Proposals due: 5 April 2019, 14:00 CEST

Call for a Fast (F) mission opportunity in ESA's Science Programme for a launch in the 2026-2028 timeframe

Closed
Phase-1 proposals due: 25 October 2018, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Phase-2 proposals due: 20 March 2019, 12:00 (noon) CET

XMM-Newton 18th Announcement of Opportunity: for observations to be carried out between May 2019 and April 2020

Closed
Proposals due: 5 October 2018, 12:00 UT

Call for proposals for an ESA-ESO workshop in 2019

Closed
Proposals due: 29 June 2018

Announcement of Opportunity for Community Scientists in the PLATO mission

Closed
Letters of Intent due: 26 April 2018
Proposals due: 23 May 2018 (by 12 noon)

4th Announcement of Opportunity for Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS mission Closed on 10 May 2018
 
Announcement of Opportunity for European Participating Scientist Membership of the Science Team for the X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (XARM) Closed on 6 April 2018
 
3rd Call for Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS Mission Closed on 5 May 2017
 
Call for mission concepts for the large-size “L3” mission opportunity in ESA’s Science Programme Closed on 16 January 2017
Announcement of Opportunity for the operations and scientific exploitation of the SPICE instrument on board the Solar Orbiter mission Closed on 26 September 2016
Call for a Medium-size mission opportunity in ESA's Science Programme (M5) Closed on 5 October 2016
 
New Science Ideas Closed on 14 September 2016
 
2nd Call for Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS Mission Closed on 4 May 2016
 
European Scientist Participation in the WFIRST FSWG Closed on 8 April 2016
 
Interdisciplinary Scientists and Guest Investigators in the ExoMars 2016 Mission Closed on 30 March 2016
 

Announcement of Opportunity for Science Planners in the NASA-led IRIS Mission

Closed on 8 May 2015
 
Joint Call for a Mission from the Chinese Academy Of Sciences (CAS) And The European Space Agency (ESA) Closed on 16 March 2015
Call for a Medium-size mission opportunity in ESA's Science Programme for a launch in 2025 (M4) Closed on 15 January 2015
Call for mission concepts for the large-size 'L2' mission opportunity in ESA's Science Programme Closed on 15 April 2014
 
Call for a Small mission opportunity in ESA's Science Programme for a launch in 2017 Closed on 15 June 2012
 
Call for a Medium-size mission opportunity for a launch in 2022 Closed on 3 December 2010
 
Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Call for Proposals Closed on 29 June 2007
 
Announcement of Opportunity for European membership in the Hinode Science Working Group (SWG) Closed on 2 March 2007