Objective
The Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure (EPN2020-RI) will address key scientific and technological challenges facing modern planetary science by providing open access to state-of-the-art research data, models and facilities across the European Research Area. Its Transnational Access activities will provide access to world-leading laboratory facilities that simulate conditions found on planetary bodies as well as specific analogue field sites for Mars, Europa and Titan. Its Virtual Access activities will make available the diverse datasets and visualisation tools needed for comparing and understanding planetary environments in the Solar System and beyond. By providing the underpinning facilities that European planetary scientists need to conduct their research, EPN2020-RI will create cooperation and effective synergies between its different components: space exploration, ground-based observations, laboratory and field experiments, numerical modelling, and technology.
EPN2020-RI builds on the foundations of successful FP6 and FP7 Europlanet programmes that established the ‘Europlanet brand’ and built structures that will be used in the Networking Activities of EPN2020-RI to coordinate the European planetary science community’s research. It will disseminate its results to a wide range of stakeholders including industry, policy makers and, crucially, both the wider public and the next generation of researchers and opinion formers, now in education. As an Advanced Infrastructure we place particular emphasis on widening the participation of previously under-represented research communities and stakeholders. We will include new countries and Inclusiveness Member States, via workshops, team meetings, and personnel exchanges, to broaden/widen/expand and improve the scientific and innovation impact of the infrastructure. EPN2020-RI will therefore build a truly pan-European community that shares common goals, facilities, personnel, data and IP across national boundaries
Fields of science
Call for proposal
H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015
See other projects for this call
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
MK7 6AA Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Participants (34)
75014 Paris
WC1E 6BT London
75794 Paris
28850 Torrejon De Ardoz Madrid
1081 HV Amsterdam
4500-819 Espinho
1010 Wien
65127 Pescara
00560 Helsinki
51147 Koln
SY23 3BF Aberystwyth
80539 Munchen
SW7 5BD London
28759 Bremen
00136 Roma
8000 Aarhus C
1121 Budapest
141 31 Praha 4
113 Reykjavik
48149 Muenster
67080 Strasbourg Cedex
75008 Paris
Participation ended
38570 Theys
8036 Graz
1180 Bruxelles
1586 Riga
48940 Leioa
00 818 Warszawa
01513 Vilnius
10024 Athina
2311 EZ Leiden
00 716 Warszawa
3012 Bern
119992 Moscow