3rd Announcement of Opportunity for the Cluster Guest Investigator and Early Career Scientist Programme
25 February 2019
This Announcement of Opportunity (AO) solicits proposals for participation in the Cluster Guest Investigator and Early Career Scientist programme.Proposals for this programme must identify compelling scientific studies that make use of the Cluster spacecraft and payload in 2020. Proposals to exploit Cluster data with other satellite data, or proposals for theoretical and/or modelling studies focused on the goals and objectives of the Cluster mission, are encouraged.
This AO is open to the worldwide scientific community. Co-investigators of experiments on the Cluster mission are eligible to propose under this AO; Principal Investigators are excluded. Up to ten Guest Investigators and ten Early Career Scientists will be selected through this AO.
Full details of this AO, including all documentation and the submission forms, are on the dedicated AO home page at:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/cluster-ao3
Schedule for this AO and important dates
| Activity | Date |
| Announcement of Opportunity issued | 25 February 2019 |
| Deadline for Letter of Intent | 28 March 2019, 12:00 (noon) CET |
| Deadline for Proposal submission | 29 May 2019, 12:00 (noon) CEST |
| Evaluation phase | June–September 2019 |
| Selection | October–November 2019 |
| Execution of GI operations | 2020 |