Special Issue – Take Off
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In February 2020, when we met in the historic English town of Windsor for the kick-off of the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI), we had little idea of how much would change in the world over the course of the project.
Many of the activities we planned in Windsor were delayed or implemented in a radically different way. However, four-and-a-half years later and despite the pandemic, wars and all the challenges faced by the community on a personal, professional and societal level, we are proud of what we have been able to achieve with Europlanet.
This issue is a compilation of articles about Europlanet 2024 RI activities from the last seven issues of the Europlanet Magazine. The first feature is a summary of the main findings by the project’s impact evaluation officer, whose role has been to assess the effectiveness of the RI for its user community. The articles that follow give more in-depth overviews of the project’s main activities, including Transnational Access visits to laboratories and field sites, upgrades to facilities, Virtual Access services and Networking Activities.
Congratulations to everyone involved in Europlanet 2024 RI, and we invite everyone in the planetary community to join the Europlanet non-profit association and share in our sustainable future.
Anita Heward, Editor.
Europlanet Magazine
The official magazine of Europlanet, the worldwide community for planetary sciences.
Europlanet (www.europlanet-society.org) is a not-for-profit association and membership organisation that provides the planetary science community with access to research infrastructure, services and training. The Europlanet Association Sans But Lucratif (AISBL), established in 2023, builds on the heritage of a series of projects funded by the European Commission between 2005 and 2024 to support the planetary science community in Europe and around the world.
Production Team
Editor: Anita Heward.
Assistant Editor: Thibaut Roger.
Production and planning: Victoria Southgate and Eleanor Lester.
Contributors:
Nicolas André, Yoga Barrathwaj Raman Mohan, Jeronimo Bernard-Salas, Barbara Cavalazzi, Gareth Davies, Jennifer DeWitt, Stéphane Erard, Maria Genzer, Stavro Ivanovski, Guenter Kargl, Nigel Mason, Matteo Massironi, Andrea Opitz, Riccardo Pozzobon, Niamh Shaw, Mebatseyon Shawel, Edita Stonkutė, Gražina Tautvaišienė and Marcell Tessenyi.
Front and back cover image credits: Adobe Photoshop/Pixooma.
Acknowledgements
Europlanet 2024 RI has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 871149. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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Disclaimer – Views expressed in articles are the opinions of contributing authors and do not represent the views or policies of the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure, Europlanet AISBL, the Europlanet Society or the European Commission. While great care is taken to ensure accuracy, the Project Management Committee of the Europlanet Research Infrastructure, the Executive Board of Europlanet AISBL, and the editor accept no responsibility for errors or omissions in this or other issues.
