National meetings and other events 2025

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.

• Netherlands Astronomy Conference 2025, Berg en Dal (26-28 May 2025)
• International Meteor Conference 2025, Soest (18-21 September 2025)
• Atmospheric and interior evolution of planetary magma oceans, Leiden (6-10 October 2025)
• ESA-ESTEC open day, NL Space outreach event (11-12 October 2025)
• Rocky Worlds 4 Conference, Groningen (19-23 January 2026)
• NPP / KNW annual meeting (TBD in January-February 2026 timeframe)
• NWO NAC – Dutch Earth and Environmental Sciences Conference, Noordwijk (9-10 April 2026) – with planetary science session
• 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 2025-2026 (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.

• Biennial European Astrobiology Conference (BEACON), Reykjavik, Iceland (1-5 July 2025)
• 87th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc 2025), Perth, Australia (14-18 July 2025)
• Impacts and Their Role in the Origin and Evolution of Life, Nördlingen, Germany (1-4 September 2025)
• EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria (3-8 May 2026)

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