The 2025 ORP Proposal Writing School will take place online on four Mondays during the time period 10 February-17 March 2025. This school is an introductory-level overview of the proposal writing process with a focus on ORP-supported facilities and infrastructures.

The school will include an introduction to how proposals are reviewed by Time Allocation Committees (TACs) and how to build science and technical cases. The students will also take part in group work that involves forming mini-TACs to review a set of professionally written proposals to gain experience on the process. The students will take the information obtained from attending the school to write their own observing proposal, which will receive feedback from the expert tutors.

The school is primarily meant for PhD students in astronomy, who want to gain more experience in writing observing time proposals. However, students/astronomers at any stage of the career are very welcome to apply to the school.

More information on the school and the application form can be found here:

The deadline for applications is Friday, 13 December 2024, and applicants will be notified of the selection in mid-January.