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Welcome to the website for TransNational Access opportunities within the EuroPlanet Research Infrastructure

The Europlanet Research Infrastructure is a major (6 million Euro) programme funded by the EU Framework VII programme to bring together the European planetary science community to engage in collaborative research.

A central part of the programme is to allow any European researcher interested in pursuing planetary science research access to a comprehensive set of laboratory facilities and field sites tailored to the needs of planetary research.

Access is provided by a TransNational Access (TNA) programme which supports travel and local costs of researchers at the facility for an approved period of time to conduct their own research programme. Applications are made to annual calls and are subject to peer review. It should be noted that applicants must apply to use facilities outside the country in which they are based (i.e. it is a transnational access).

The programme is arranged in three areas

TNA1 Planetary Field Analogues offers access to 5 well-characterized terrestrial field sites that have been selected so as to provide the most realistic analogues of surfaces of Mars, Europa and Titan, to which planetary missions have either recently been directed or are planned. Access is provided for scientists to perform high quality scientific research and test instrumentation for space missions under realistic planetary conditions and undertake comparative planetology research.

TNA2 Planetary Simulation Facilities provides access to a set of laboratory facilities that are able to recreate and simulate the conditions found in the atmospheres and on the surfaces of planetary systems with special attention to Martian, Titan and Europa analogues.

TNA3 Planetary Sample Analysis combines the resources of three of the world's leading analytical laboratories to analyze meteoritic and sample returns with un-paralleled precision, offering very specific isotopic analysis.