Transnational Access (TA)

Transnational Access (TA)

Europlanet provides FREE access to  planetary simulation and analysis facilities.

  • Distributed Planetary Laboratory Facilities (DPLF) to enable the simulation or characterisation of planetary conditions and materials.
  • Planetary Field Analogues (PFA) to support current and forthcoming missions to Mars, the Moon and the icy moons of Jupiter. 

Europlanet’s Transnational Access (TA) programme supports all travel and local accommodation costs for European and international researchers to visit these facilities and field sites.

Sustainable TA through Europlanet

  • A pilot for a sustainable Europlanet TA programme will be launched in January 2025, with visits taking place from April-July 2025 and a report presented at EPSC-DPS2025 in Helsinki.
  • The pilot TA programme will include up to six laboratory facilities.
  • A full call with a wider portfolio of TA facilities will be announced at EPSC-DPS2025 in September 2025.
  • Further details will be published here in January 2025

Facilities participating in the 2025 pilot TA programme:

If you are interested in participating in the pilot TA call, download the Code of Conduct for participating facilities.

Read publishable reports from past TA visits

Publications from Europlanet past TA visits

Europlanet 2024 RI Transnational Access Programme (2020-2024)

Europlanet 2024 RI has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 871149.
Europlanet AISBL (Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif – 0800.634.634) is hosted by the Department of Planetary Atmospheres of the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), Avenue Circulaire 3, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium.