Facts and Figures – Europlanet

Europlanet Facts and Figures

10,000+ participants from 58 countries have participated in EPSC or EPSC-DPS Joint Meetings since 2006
1200 participants regularly attend Europlanet’s annual meeting, the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC)
10 countries have hosted EPSC or EPSC-DPS Joint Meetings
Over 700 people have signed up for individual membership of Europlanet.
50 participants regularly attend the Europlanet Early Career (EPEC) Annual Week
11 Europlanet Regional Hubs support planetary science across 32 countries
14 Society Committees (Regional Hubs, Diversity, EPEC, EPSC Executive Committee, EPSC SOC & EPSC LOC) are currently active.
4 Working Groups (Outreach & Education, Policy & Industry, Machine Learning, and Future Research)
2200+ members of the planetary community have signed up to receive the Europlanet newsletter.
Over 7,500 members of the planetary community have participated in Europlanet training workshops and schools over the past two decades, with a particular focus on early career researchers.

Over 25 planetary laboratory simulation and sample analysis facilities are currently offered for Transnational Access (TA) through Europlanet’s Distributed Research and Technology Infrastructure (RTI)
Europlanet has funded over 600 TA research visits over three EC-Funded projects, amounting to in excess of 5,500 days of access (15 years), involving over 800 individual researchers, 80 individual laboratory facilities, 12 planetary analogue field sites and 17 telescopes.
91% of TA hosts & visitors planned future research activities together
66% of TA participants reported that their visits led them to consider new research questions or lines of research
Over 50% of TA visits were by early careers and provided opportunities that would not otherwise be available to them
Over 90 data services and 30 million files are accessible through VESPA
Over 250 publications have resulted from Europlanet.
12 data services available through the SPIDER Planetary Space Weather Services (PSWS)