European Planetary Science Congress 2017: 2nd Media Announcement
The European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2017 will take place at the Radisson Blu Latvija in Riga, from Sunday 17 to Friday 22 September 2017. Around 800 scientists from Europe and around the world are expected to attend the meeting and will give around 1,000 oral and poster presentations about the latest results on our own Solar System and planets orbiting other stars.
EPSC is the major European annual meeting on planetary science and in 2017 will take place for the first time in the Baltic States. The EPSC programme covers the full spectrum of planetary science and technology. For 2017, session highlights include:
- Ceres and Vesta – 10th anniversary of Dawn Special Session
- What do we know and what don’t we know following the cessation of the operational phase of the Rosetta mission
- Juno at Jupiter and Supporting Earth-Based Observations
- Outer planets systems and Pluto (including presentations on the Cassini mission Grand Finale)
- Sample return missions: lessons learned and future perspectives
- European Vision 2061 and NASA Planetary Science Vision 2050
- Towards a Moon Village: Science & Innovation.
A full programme of scientific sessions can be found here:
www.europlanet-eu.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/EPSC_Session_Summary_Media.pdf
Press notices on presentations that may be of special interest to the media will be circulated during the meeting. Press briefings and selected talks will be streamed, courtesy of Latvijas Mobilais Telefons (LMT).
The theme for EPSC 2017 is ‘Widening Participation’ and the programme will include sessions and associated events to promote the engagement and integration of new communities in Europe (and beyond) with planetary science.
“Riga is a growing hub for Baltic space activity and we are excited to be hosting EPSC in Latvia for the first time,” said Amara Graps, Chair of the EPSC 2017 Local Organising Committee. “As we anticipate centenary celebrations of the independence of Latvia, Finland, Estonia and Lithuania, starting in late 2017 and continuing through 2018, we hope that the conference will inspire the next generation of space scientists and engineers in our region.”
“We are happy that Riga will host the European Planetary Science Congress. As one of Latvia’s innovation leaders, LMT will be proud to support the conference with our streaming technology, so we can share the exciting findings with the wider world.” said Juris Binde, President of LMT.
Details of the Congress and a full schedule of EPSC 2017 scientific sessions and events can be found at the official website: http://www.epsc2017.eu
EPSC 2017 is organised by Europlanet and Copernicus Meetings. The Local Organising Committee is led by Baltics in Space, a not-for-profit organisation that is supporting 25 members centred around nine Baltic space facilities for the conference. The meeting is sponsored by Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science, Latvijas Mobilais Telefons, Finnish Meteorological Institute, The Estonia-Latvia programme, The Representation of the European Commission in Latvia, the Planetary Science Institute, Latvijas Universitate and The Division for Planetary Sciences of the AAS.
MEDIA REGISTRATION
Media representatives are cordially invited to attend. Press room facilities will be available for the duration of the conference from 9 am on Monday 18 September through to 3 pm on Friday 22 September. Media registration is free. Any bona fide media delegates can pre-register by e-mailing anita.heward@europlanet-eu.org or livia.giacomini@europlanet-eu.org (advance registration is not essential but encouraged).
CONTACTS
Anita Heward
EPSC 2017 Press Officer
+44 07756 034243
anita.heward@europlanet-eu.org
Livia Giacomini
EPSC 2017 Press Officer
livia.giacomini@europlanet-eu.org
Dr Amara Graps
Chair, EPSC 2017 Local Organising Committee
amara@balticsinspace.eu
+371 28853907
FURTHER INFORMATION
Europlanet
Since 2005, the Europlanet project has provided European’s planetary science community with a platform to exchange ideas and personnel, share research tools, data and facilities, define key science goals for the future and engage stakeholders, policy makers and European Citizens with planetary science. Europlanet is the parent organisation of the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC), and the EPSC Executive Committee is drawn from its membership.
The Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure (RI) is a €9.95 million project to address key scientific and technological challenges facing modern planetary science by providing open access to state-of-the-art data, models and facilities across the European Research Area. The project was launched on 1st September 2015 and has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654208. Europlanet 2020 RI is led by the Open University, UK, and has 33 beneficiary institutions from 19 European countries.
Project website: www.europlanet-2020-ri.eu
Outreach website: www.europlanet-eu.org
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Baltics in Space
The philosophy of the nonprofit organization, Baltics in Space, is to “Inventory, Identify, and Integrate” with a sprinkling of Inspiration to build a space product greater than the sum of its parts. The best resource in the space business is people. With an eye to strengthening the triple helix links (Industry, Education, Research), its planned outcomes are integrating Baltic-wide space events, compiling catalogs of skill-sets for prospective users and Baltic space project development with distributed teams and Baltic space education.
