EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025 Call-for-sessions

Dear colleagues,

The EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025 will be held at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland on 7–12 September 2025.

The Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) is the annual meeting place of the Europlanet community, which invites contributions from planetary scientists from all over the world. First held in Berlin in 2006 and regularly attracting 1,200 participants, EPSC is the largest planetary science meeting held in Europe. It covers the entire range of planetary sciences with an extensive mix of talks, workshops, and poster sessions while providing a unique space for networking and exchange of experiences. In 2011 EPSC joined forces for the first time with the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) and they held their first joint meeting in Nantes, France. The intent of the joint meetings is not only to connect the European and US planetary science communities, but also to consolidate two major meetings, which should motivate planetary scientists from all over the globe to attend. This year will mark the third iteration of a joint Europe-based meeting. Given the record number of participants at the last two EPSCs we expect to exceed 2000 participants this year.

The success of our meetings is founded on the excellence of the scientific sessions held by the session conveners. We therefore encourage you to submit session proposals through the conference website by 5 March 2025.

Sessions can be proposed for the following programme groups:

TP – Terrestrial Planets
OPS – Outer Planet Systems
MITM – Missions, Instrumentation, Techniques, Modelling
SB – Small Bodies (comets, KBOs, rings, asteroids, meteorites, dust)
EXOA – Exoplanets, Origins of Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
ODAA – Outreach, Diversity, Amateur Astronomy

We will support conveners in their role by giving clearly defined guidelines, tools, tutorials, and trainings released closer to the congress.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at epsc@copernicus.org

Best regards,

Stavro Ivanovski, Akos Kereszturi, and Conor Nixon
Scientific organizing committee Co-Chairs

Noah Jäggi
Incoming EPSC committee Chair

Lena Noack
EPSC committee Chair