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Abstract EANA2025-172


What could Europlanet mean for the astrobiology community?

Ann C Vandaele (1), A. Heward (2), S. Ivanovski (3), E. Stonkuté (4), F. Duras (3), D. Moreau (1), L. Fletcher (5), J. de Leon Cruz (6), L. Montabone (7), L. Giacomini (3), N. Mason (2)
(1) Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Belgium (2) Univ. of Kent, UK (3) Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, Italy (4) Faculty of Physics, Univ. Vilnius, Lithuania (5) School of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. Leicester, UK) (6) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain (7) Paneureka, France (8) Univ. of Kent, UK


The objectives of Europlanet are to promote planetary sciences, planetary exploration and any other related field for the benefit of the community, by encouraging the creation of new knowledge, by promoting education, by stimulating innovation and by enhancing accessibility and transparency. Europlanet has recently been established as an AISBL, i.e. a non-profit organisation, which can be seen as the sustainable extension of the Europlanet Research Infrastructure project funded by the European Commission. The purpose of the association is to enable Europlanet's stakeholder community to speak with one voice to defend and represent its interests, promoting coherence between policy and the research priorities of the European Union and the activities coordinated by the association. As an AISBL, Europlanet can also participate as a partner in EU projects.

The association achieves its goal by pursuing a series of activities, for instance organising the EPSC conference and the EPEC week, developing and maintaining infrastructures to support planetary sciences, including access to laboratories or analogue field campaigns, maintaining the Europlanet Telescope Network and carrying out outreach and teaching activities, such as, supporting the upcoming Astrobiology Workshop in Lithuania (https://mao.tfai.vu.lt/europlanet2025).