Objectives
There is a large, world-leading and highly active Heliophysics community within Europe. However, this broad umbrella discipline has been historically subdivided into a variety of groups or areas. This has sometimes made inter-community communication and collaborations unwieldy, even though fundamental plasma physics and techniques are a common thread.
The aim of this 2.5 day forum is to debate and discuss how to better advance heliospheric science by improving communication and coordination between those working in the above sub-disciplines, setting up a European Heliophysics Community (EHC) body that can better communicate and support European scientists. This forum will propose a way forward for the formation of a EHC entity, addressing issues such as the type of structure is best suited to enable such a community to flourish across different scientific fields and at all career stages, how best to interact with other existing initiatives, develop a list of key issues to be addressed by the EHC for advancing the multi-disciplinary research fields. The results will be documented in a white paper.
This forum complements the Heliophysics in Europe science workshops, the first if which was held in October 2023 at ESTEC. The second edition took place from 18-22 November 2024. The outcomes of the first meeting are summarised here.
This forum is by invitation only, with in person participation. We expect 21 participants.
Conveners
Rumi Nakamura, Geraint Jones, Matt Taylor, Thierry Dudok de Wit