Europlanet Transnational Access Pilot Call 2025 – Approved Visits
Europlanet’s Transnational Access (TA) programme enables researchers to visit facilities that offer simulation and analysis capabilities relevant to planetary science. In February, Europlanet opened a call for a pilot for a sustainable Europlanet TA programme that it can operate annually, independent of funding from external sources (EC grants).
Sixteen applications from researchers in ten countries were received in the pilot call, with five visits to facilities approved. The successful applications are as follows:
AU Planetary Environment Facility, Aarhus University, Denmark.
- 25-EPN-P-3: Experimental Characterisation and Model Validation of a Tumbleweed Rover under simulated Mars Surface Environment. PI: J Kingsnorth, Team Tumbleweed, Netherlands.
Atomki ECRIS Laboratory: Atomki-Queen’s University Ice Laboratory for Astrochemistry (AQUILA), HUN-REN Atomki, Debrecen, Hungary.
- 25-EPN-P-5: Implantation of water ions in Titan’s aerosol analogues. PI: V Vuitton, IPAG/CNRS/UGA, France.
Carbon-14 Dating AMS Laboratory, Isotoptech, Debrecen, Hungary.
- 25-EPN-P-10: Biogeochemical and Sedimentological characterization of the Makgadikgadi playa lake deposits, NE Botswana. PI: T Kahsay, BIUST, Botswana.
Electron Induced Fluorescence Laboratory, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- 25-EPN-P-12: Unveiling Sulfur Chemistry in Cometary Atmospheres: Electron-Impact Cross Sections of CS2 for Accurate Abundance Measurements. PI: D Bodewits, Auburn University, USA.
Atomic Level Electronic Structure STEM, Korean Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Korea.
- 25-EPN-P-16: Nanoscale preservation of organic materials in Mars-analogue lakeshore carbonates: implications for Perseverance and Mars Sample Return. PI: K Hickman-Lewis, NHM, London, UK.
Visits will take place from May-July 2025, and a report will be presented at the joint meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the Division of Planetary Sciences (EPSC-DPS2025) in Helsinki from 7-12 September 2025.
