COSPAR COLLOQUIA

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COSPAR co-organizes/co-sponsors a limited number of meetings and Colloquia each year that are of interest to its Associates. To apply for co-sponsorship, moral and/or financial, a formal request must be sent to the Secretariat which includes, at a minimum, the following information:
- the scientific program with an endorsement from the relevant COSPAR Scientific Commission/Panel Chair explaining how the event complements the work of COSPAR,
- the international composition of the program committee,
- other sponsors and their level of sponsorship, and
- a description of how the funds, if requested, will be spent.
Support is usually limited to a maximum of 1000 Euros for co-sponsored meetings. For COSPAR Colloquia a maximum of 3000 Euros is generally allocated as seed money. Organizers of COSPAR Colloquia are asked to sign a formal agreement concerning the publication of selected papers in Advances in Space Research. The COSPAR Bureau will consider sponsorship requests at its meetings (generally in March and, in even numbered years, also in July) and wishes to receive documentation about two months in advance for proper consideration.

COSPAR Colloquia have been held regularly since 1989. A selection of scientific papers from these meetings are published by Elsevier Science in Advances in Space Research (from 2002, approximately) and in the COSPAR Colloquia Series (until 2002, approximately).

- Establishing Risk Levels for a Mars Sample Return Mission, date: TBD, Alpbach, Austria
- Second International Colloquium on Fundamental Aspects and Scientific Applications of Galileo and GNSS, 14 - 16 October 2009, Padua, Italy
- Solar Extreme Events (SEE) 2007 Symposium, Univ. of Athens, 24 - 27 September 2007, Athens, Greece (a selection of scientific papers from this meeting appears in Advances in Space Research volume 43, number 04, 16 February 2009)
- Planetary Protection: Mars Special Regions, 18 - 20 September 2007, Rome, Italy
- Mutagenic Consequences of the Space Environment, 23 - 25 July 2006, Xi'an, China (a selection of scientific papers from this meeting appears in Advances in Space Research volume 40, number 04, 2007)
- Spectra and Timing of Compact X-ray Binaries, 17 - 21 January 2005, Bombay, India (a selection of scientific papers from this meeting appears in Advances in Space Research volume 38, number 12, 2006)
- Dynamical Processes in Critical Regions of the Heliosphere, 3 -10 March 2004, Israel (a selection of scientific papers from this meeting appears in Advances in Space Research volume 38, number 01, 2006)
- Radiation Safety of Manned Mars Mission Workshop, 28 Sept. - 2 Oct. 2003, Dubna, Moscow Region, Program
- Frontiers of Magnetospheric Plasma Physics, 24 - 26 July 2002, ISAS, Sagamihara, Japan
- Plasma Processes in the near-Earth Space: INTERBALL and Beyond (INTERBALL 2002), 5 - 10 February 2002, Sofia, Bulgaria (a selection of scientific papers from this meeting appears in Advances in Space Research volume 31, number 05, 2003)
- Multi-wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics - Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting, 21-24 January 2002, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA
- Solar-Terrestrial Magnetic Activity and Space Environment, 10 - 12 September 2001, Beijing, China
- Acceleration and Heating in the Magnetosphere, 6 - 10 February 2001, Konstancin-Jeziorna (Warsaw Region), Poland (a selection of scientific papers from this meeting appears in Advances in Space Research volume 30, number 07, 2002)
- The Interstellar Environment of the Heliosphere - Special Colloquium in Honour of Stanislaw Grzedzielski, 23 January 2001, Paris, France (a selection of scientific papers from this meeting appears in MPE Report 285)
- Space Weather Study Using Multi-point Techniques, 27 - 29 September 2000, Taipei, Taiwan, China
- The Outer Heliosphere: The Next Frontiers, 24 - 28 July 2000, Potsdam, Germany
- Dust in the Solar System and Other Planetary Systems, 10 - 14 April 2000, Univ. of Kent at Canterbury, UK
- Microsatellites as Research Tools, 14 - 17 December 1997, Tainan, Taiwan, China
- Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors (ACM), 1996, Versailles, France
- Magnetospheric Research with Advanced Techniques, 1996, Beijing, China
- Space Remote Sensing of Subtropical Ocean, 1995, Taipei, Taiwan, China
- Low-Latitude Ionospheric Physics, 1993, Taipei, Taiwan, China
- Int. Roundtable on Radiation Risk in Humans on Exploratory Missions in Space, 1993, Bad Honnef, Germany
- Solar-Terrestrial Engery Program: Initial Results from STEP Facilities and Theory Campaigns, 1992, Johns Hopkins Univ., MD, USA
- Plasma Environments of Non-Magnetic Planets, 1992, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Solar Wind Seven, 1991, Goslar, Germany
- The Environment Model of Mars, 1990, Sopron, Hungary
- Physics of the Outer Heliosphere, 1989, Warsaw, Poland