PROPOSAL TIMETABLE

20 Jan: Call Released

23 Jan: LoI submitted
29-30 Jan: This meeting
7 Feb: Resources to be provided to WGs (action IOWG)
Feb 14: v1 of proposal to ACG and WGs
Feb 28: Inputs from WGs due
Mar 5: ESA briefing meeting
Mar 18/19: Proposal writing meeting (ACG)
Mar 20: v2 Proposal to WGs
Mar 28: Final comments due
April 1/2: Final proposal writing meeting
April 4: Proposal submission
April 15: Proposal deadline
April-May: evaluation by WGs and SSAC
June: SPC decision
Paul Nandra: Athena Summary
 COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Formal representation within ESA

ESA will appoint Science Team soon after June 2014
Instrument proto-consortia being formed
Formalised in AO process 2015
Ground Segment, Telescope team TBD
Community-based activities
Maintain working groups: Sci Def., Sci. requirements
Resource curation (responses, bgds etc.)
Cross-cutting activities
Muliwavelength, payload, calibration, simulation
Communications:
Web Site, Social Media, Publicity, publication curation
Meeting organisation, e.g. major science meeting planned
for later in 2014 volunteers?
Team Co-ordination, membership, mailing lists
Paul Nandra: Athena Summary