“Heliophysics in Europe” Workshops

Heliophysics (including space weather) encompasses space plasma physics throughout the solar system, from Sun to the solar wind, planets (including the Earth) and small bodies. 

Heliophysics has a large and active international community, with significant expertise and heritage in the European Space Agency and Europe. Several ESA directorates have activities directly connected with this topic, including ongoing and/ or planned missions and instrumentation (Directorate of Science, Directorate of Earth Observation, Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration, Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality and the Directorate of Operations).

The ESA Heliophysics Working Group was established in 2021 by the ESA Director General to act as a focus for discussion, inside ESA, of the scientific interests of the Heliophysics community, including the European ground-based community and data archiving activities.

After several internal discussions the ESA Heliophysics Working Group organised the ‘Heliophysics in Europe’ workshop in 2023, aimed at  better connection of all parts of the Heliophysics community (as described above) to all relevant parts of ESA and vice versa. A second meeting was held in 2024, this time fully online and also it was joined by the first European Heliophyiscs Community Meeting.

This web area provides information on these workshops.