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 take place in the first part of 2025, with visits taking place from May-July and a report presented at EPSC-DPS2025 in Helsinki.
• The pilot TA programme will include a limited range of laboratory facilities.
• A full call with a wider portfolio of TA facilities will be announced at EPSC-DPS2025 in September 2025.

TA Pilot Call 2025

The call is now closed.

The European facilities participating in the 2025 pilot TA programme are as follows:

• VU Amsterdam, Netherlands:
  • VU (Exo)Planetary Interior Simulation Laboratory (PISL)
  • VU Netherlands Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory (NIGeL)
• Aarhus University, Denmark:
  • AU Planetary Environment Facility
• HUN-REN Atomki, Debrecen, Hungary:
  • Atomki ECRIS Laboratory: Atomki-Queen’s University Ice Laboratory for Astrochemistry (AQUILA)
• Isotoptech, Debrecen, Hungary:
  • Carbon-14 Dating AMS Laboratory
  • Stable/Clumped Isotopes Laboratory
  • Isotoptech Noble Gas Laboratory
• Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia:
  • Electron Induced Fluorescence Laboratory

Korean facilities participating in the 2025 pilot programme are as follows:

• Korean Basic Science Institute (KBSI)
  • Sensitive High Resolution Ion MicroProbe / SHRIMP-IIe/MC
  • Isotope Microscope with SCAPS Imaging Detector 
  • Laser Ablation-Multi Collector-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
  • Nano Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer
  • Atomic Level Electronic Structure STEM
  • Cryo-Electron Microscope System

If you are interested in offering your facility for participation in future Transnational Access Calls, download the Code of Conduct.

Publications from Europlanet past TA visits

Europlanet 2024 RI Transnational Access Programme (2020-2024)