{"id":1669,"date":"2015-02-10T09:10:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T19:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/?page_id=1669"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:42:54","slug":"eao_eligibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/proposals\/eao_eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"EAO Eligibility\/Funding partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The JCMT is managed by the East Asian Observatory. The telescope is funded by the East Asian Observatory and a select number of institutions in the United Kingdom (UK).<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PI Eligibility<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PIs of PI observing proposals to JCMT must be from Taiwan, Thailand, or from the United Kingdom (UK, see list of unrestricted institutions below), or from Max Planck Institutes and German universities (from semester 26B), or from the Expanding Partner Program regions (Note the changes for 26B semester below). Otherwise, if you do not qualify by national or institutional affiliation as defined below then you cannot be the Principal Investigator on a JCMT observing proposal. Co-I status is <strong>not<\/strong> similarly restricted*. For details of how collaborative projects with investigators from more t<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">han one participating regions are allocated, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/proposals\/collaborations\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>*Co-I status is not restricted for PI programs but are restricted for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/science\/large-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JCMT Large Programs<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Expanding Partner Program (EPP)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The Expanding Partner Program<\/em> is a program to encourage astronomers from new JCMT partners to make use of the JCMT. PIs from the EPP regions are welcome to apply for a limited amount of time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The regions participating in the EPP for the <strong>semester<\/strong> <strong>26A<\/strong>\u00a0are Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Brazil and Argentina.<\/li>\n<li>The regions participating in the EPP for the <strong>semester<\/strong> <strong>26B<\/strong>\u00a0are Brazil and Argentina.<\/li>\n<li>For programs with PIs from Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India: The time is limited to 9 hours per program with a maximum of two accepted proposals per EPP region.<\/li>\n<li>For programs with PIs from Brazil and Argentina: The time is limited to 9 hours per program, this time constraint is not limited in Grade 5 time, and the number of accepted proposals is unrestricted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Completion of any science program awarded time is not guaranteed. Approval depends on the program being technically feasible, not clashing with existing proprietary data, and scientific review. Data collection is subject to weather conditions, instrument availability, scientific ranking, and queue pressures, with adjustments made in line with recommendations by the Time Allocation Committee (TAC). Under the EPP, priority will be given to new users of the JCMT.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For the purpose of applying for observing time with JCMT, the definition of regional affiliation varies among the partner regions:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Taiwan <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anyone affiliated with an institute in Taiwan &#8211; funding from Taiwan comes from the <a title=\"Institute of Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Academia Sinica\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA)<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Thailand<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Anyone affiliated with an institute in Thailand &#8211; funding from Thailand comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.narit.or.th\/en\/\">National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"uk_universities\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Contributing UK universities<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Astronomers from the UK institutions listed below may submit an unrestricted number of proposals per semester per institution to the PI queue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armagh.space\">Armagh Observatory and Planetarium<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Cardiff University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiff University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"University of Central Lancashire\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashire.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Lancashire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Durham University\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Durham University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"University of Edinburgh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Edinburgh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"University of Hertfordshire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.herts.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Hertfordshire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Imperial College London\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imperial College London<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"University of Manchester\" href=\"http:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Manchester<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Open University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Open University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"University of Oxford\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Oxford<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"University College London\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University College London<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Non-listed UK institutions may submit one proposal per institution per semester, requesting a maximum of 30 hours in Weather Bands 1-4, or an unlimited amount of time in Weather Band 5.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"uk_universities\">Max Planck Institutes and German universities<\/h3>\n<p>Researchers from Max Planck Institutes and German universities can apply for 26B semester calls for proposals. The total time available is up to 100 hours of observing time per semester.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please also note that any astronomer from any institute listed above can also be a member of any Large Program or submit \u201cUrgent\u201d queue proposals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JCMT is managed by the East Asian Observatory. The telescope is funded by the East Asian Observatory and a select number of institutions in the United Kingdom (UK). PI Eligibility &nbsp; PIs of PI observing proposals to JCMT must be from Taiwan, Thailand, or from the United Kingdom (UK,\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/proposals\/eao_eligibility\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":192,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13512,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1669\/revisions\/13512"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}