EPEC Activities
The EPEC Working Groups organise a range of activities to support Early Career researchers and space professionals in the planetary community.
EPEC monthly activities
EPEC annual activities:
EPEC Profiles
The EPEC Communications Working Group offers early career members an opportunity to showcase their research. Each month, Europlanet shares a profile of an early career researcher on the Society website and on social media:
Inspiring Stories
The EPEC Outreach Working Group publishes a monthly series of “Inspiring Stories”. Every story will work as a case study and will act as an effort to inspire and motivate others to do outreach activities!
Motivational Journeys
‘Motivational Journeys’ is a monthly series of video interviews brought to you by the EPEC Diversity Working Group. Experienced scientists from various backgrounds ashare personal stories about their early days, their motivation and how they got through tough times successfully.
Voyage 2050 Viewpoints
The EPEC Future Research Working Group talked with 3 early career planetary science researchers who are lead authors on these white papers to find out more about how they got involved and what they think planetary science will look like in 2050. We hope that their insight will also prove useful to any early-career researchers looking to get involved with NASA’s Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032.
EPEC Annual Week
The EPEC Annual Week is an opportunity for the EPEC community to better get to know each other, to brainstorm on how to further develop the network in terms of the activities of its working groups and to enhance the interaction with members of the Europlanet Executive Board, who will be invited to give talks throughout the week. The school brings together young scientists from all EU countries and provides a networking platform where science discussion and collaboration are stimulated via a series of group activities. More about EPEC Annual Week.
EPEC@EPSC
EPEC@ESPC supports young researchers attending the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC), ensuring that they find their way through this big meeting and that the conference programme is attractive to them. EPEC@EPSC activities include an EPEC Booth, a mentoring programme, a jobs-board, short courses and training sessions, social events, challenges and competitions. More about EPEC@EPSC.
EPEC-EPSC #PlanetaryScience4All video contest
The Europlanet Early Career (EPEC) Communication working group is giving all PhD, Master’s and Bachelor’s students involved in planetary science the opportunity to showcase their research through a 4-minute video contest called #PlanetaryScience4All.
The deadline for submissions is 1 August 2021. All the videos submitted will be shown during a dedicated session during the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2021, which is being held as a virtual meeting from 13-24 September 2021. The winner will be announced at the end of the virtual conference. Find out more.
