National meetings and other events 2026

Various meetings are organised in the Netherlands by the NPP/Expertise Network, National Science Agenda (NWA), Dutch Research Council (NWO) and others. The non-exhaustive list includes meetings that can support knowledge exchange and community building of the planatery science community.

• Rocky Worlds 4 Conference, Groningen (19-23 January 2026)
• European Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) School, Leiden (26-30 January)
• NPP / KNW annual meeting (TBD in Q1 in 2026)
• NWO NAC – Dutch Earth and Environmental Sciences Conference, Noordwijk (9-10 April 2026) – with sessions for planetary science topics
• Total solar eclipse in Iceland and Spain, partial from the Netherlands, (12 August)
• Europlanet Science Congress, The Hague (6-11 September 2026, see also below)

Note that various scientific meetings and information sessions are also organised by the Dutch Research Council (agenda here).

International meetings 2026-2027 (selection)

The list below is a suggested selection of events that can be of interest to researchers in the Dutch planetary science community. More suggestions for events can be found via the LPI meetings calendar and the Planetary Exploration Newsletter.

• Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), The Woodlands, Texas/Virtual (16-20 March)
• EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria (3-8 May 2026)
• Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), Florence, Italy (1-9 August)
• Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc 2026), Frankfurt, Germany (9-12 August, 2026)
• EGU General Assembly 2027, Vienna, Austria (4-9 April 2027)

Sources: Europlanet, LPI meetings calendar, Planetary Exploration Newsletter, EGU Meetings Calendar and others.