Europlanet Outreach & Education
April 26, 2023

Take a trip to the planets with Bimbim and his team The first three episodes of “A Journey to the Planets” series, the winning proposal of the 2022 round of […]

Europlanet Outreach & Education
September 23, 2022

The winner of the #PlanetaryScience4All EPEC-EPSC Video Contest 2022 is ’29P & Comet Chasers’ by Cai Stoddard-Jones. Hi, I’m Cai, a first year PhD student at Cardiff University. I’m from […]

Europlanet Outreach & Education
September 8, 2022

A Journey to the Planets: how to make children fall in love with space Making children curious about space and planetary sciences through play and puppet theatre is the idea […]

Europlanet Outreach & Education
September 5, 2022

Get creative with Europlanet’s #InspiredByOtherWorlds arts contest 2022 See the winning entries for #InspiredByOtherWorlds 2022! The Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2022 is inviting schools  and space enthusiasts of all ages to get creative and share their […]

Il laboratorio "Accendiamo i cieli del mondo!" organizzato da INAF e OAE Center Italy, svolto presso il Padiglione Italia all'Expo Dubai, il 16 marzo 2022 - Crediti INAF
Europlanet Outreach & Education
April 26, 2022

Light up the sky of the world – Expo in Dubai On March 16, 2022, Let’s light up the skies of the world took place in the Italian Pavillion of the 2020 EXPO […]

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Europlanet Outreach and Education

Objectives of Europlanet outreach and public engagement

The Europlanet Society’s outreach activities aim to raise the profile of planetary science amongst European citizens, policy-makers, industry and the media, and support planetary scientists in engaging different audiences with their research. The Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI) project, and planetary science research in general, are funded through public money and are publicly accountable.

Why engage with planetary science?

Planetary science has a direct relevance to our understanding of our own planet, its origins, its past and future evolution, the conditions needed for life, and threats from our space environment, such as solar storms or Near-Earth Asteroids. Europlanet aims to engage European citizens in dialogue about this research and to communicate the scientific, social, economic and cultural impact of planetary science.

Exploration and planetary science can act as a hook to inspire the next generation to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM). Europlanet aims to create and curate high-quality teaching resources and activities for use in classrooms and informal learning settings.

Outreach Services

The Europlanet Society and Europlanet 2024 RI offer the following services to support outreach and education initiatives within the planetary science community:

  • Training: we run workshops to equip planetary scientists with the skills to convey their work effectively to different audiences and support members of the outreach community to develop their own training workshops to deliver via the Europlanet Regional Hub network.
  • Best practice: we coordinate sessions and workshops to share knowledge within the community. Our annual meeting, the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC), includes several sessions related to different aspects of outreach and education in planetary science.
  • Prize: we award an annual prize for public engagement in planetary science.
  • Funding Scheme: we provide seed funding for new and innovative outreach projects.
  • Europlanet Evaluation Toolkit: we have developed easy-to-use evaluation tools to help assess the impact and outcomes of education and outreach activities.
  • Resources: we are collating some of the best outreach and education resources related to planetary science to share with the community. From 2020-2024 we are also developing new educational resources related to the activities of Europlanet 2024 RI and the planetary science community, with the aim of making these accessible in multiple languages.
Europlanet Outreach & Education News
— August 16, 2023

Issue 5 of the Europlanet Magazine is out now! In this issue: In Focus A round up of news from Europlanet and the planetary community, including ESA’s JUICE Mission – Making History […]


— May 30, 2023

Calls for Europlanet Outreach Funding Scheme and Prize 2023 Are you looking for funding to kickstart an outreach or education project related to planetary science? Or have you run a […]


— April 26, 2023

Take a trip to the planets with Bimbim and his team The first three episodes of “A Journey to the Planets” series, the winning proposal of the 2022 round of […]


— April 13, 2023

Announcing the Icy Moons Collection of Educational Resources To celebrate the launch of ESA’s JUICE mission, Europlanet is releasing a new collection of free educational resources themed around icy moons […]


— March 31, 2023

Europlanet Research Infrastructure Meeting (ERIM)/Europlanet Early Career (EPEC) Annual Week 2023 – Registration Now Open The first Europlanet Research Infrastructure Meeting (ERIM), co-hosted with the fifth Europlanet Early Career (EPEC) Annual Week, […]


— January 25, 2023

The Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) in Portugal has launched a free educational board game that promotes group learning about the planets and moons of the Solar System and […]


— January 4, 2023

The Winners are… #InspiredByOtherWorlds Contest 2022 Many thanks to everyone that participated in the #InspiredByOtherWorlds Contest 2022. Congratulations to the winning entries! Youth Category: Lara Estelle Montabone – Space Crossroad […]


— December 22, 2022

Issue 4 of the Europlanet Magazine is out now! In this issue: In FocusA round up of news from Europlanet 2024 RI, the Europlanet Society, the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2022 and the planetary community.  Back Face to […]


— September 23, 2022

Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement 2022 awarded to the ‘Planets In Your Hand’ Tactile Exhibition Europlanet Press Release The 2022 Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement has been awarded to Dr […]


— September 23, 2022

The winner of the #PlanetaryScience4All EPEC-EPSC Video Contest 2022 is ’29P & Comet Chasers’ by Cai Stoddard-Jones. Hi, I’m Cai, a first year PhD student at Cardiff University. I’m from […]


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