The European Forum of Astronomical Communities is a platform of the EAS that discusses the development of underrepresented astronomy communities in Europe and presents the current networking opportunities available to European astronomers. The forum launched during EWASS 2017 in Prague and has been held every year since then.

* Maintain FORUM as a platform for discussing ways to support underrepresented communities and enhance their participation in the current and future European networking programmes, major infrastructures, space missions, and outreach programmes.

* Present current networking opportunities in research, outreach, industrial and educational activities available in Europe.

* Promote professionalisation by identifying ways to increase access to training, mentoring, exchange schemes, fellowships, travel and research grants, and to foster diversity.

* Actively engage underrepresented communities by inviting them to present short talks and posters, thereby strengthening links between large international networks and smaller European communities.

Programme

• ESO: Access to astronomical research infrastructure
• ESA opportunities for science, outreach, education and industry
• Europlanet and European Astrobiology Institute
• ACME network: Multimessenger opportunities
• European Interferometry Initiative
• European COST actions in astronomy
• Optical telescope networks
• IAU Junior Members
• Outreach and educational activities
• Short contributions from underrepresented and Inclusiveness Target Countries

Invited speakers

• Markus Kissler-Patig (ESA, Spain) - Networking opportunities through ESA
• Heidi Korhonen (MPIA, Germany) - Training plans in ACME project
• Antoine Kouchner, Paolo D'Avanzo - ACME
• Gerry Gilmore (FORTH, Greece) - OPTICON-Alliance - past, present, future
• Lukasz Wyrzykowski (NCBJ, Poland) - European Astronomical Society of Small Telescopes (EASST)
• Catherine Walsh (Leeds, UK) - Presentation of the COST Action PLANETS
• Rob Beswick, Izabela Rottmann, Damien Dornic - Enabling Access to Leading Astrophysical
• Grazina Tautvaisiene (Vilnius, LT) - Europlanet Telescope Network for the synergy of space- and ground-based observations
• Edita Stonkute (Vilnius, LT) - Europlanet: Sustaining Planetary Science through Infrastructure and Networking
• Nic Walton (U.Cambridge, UK) - COST Actions
• Milena Ratajczak (U.Warsaw, PL) - Outreach and education

Scientific organisers

Paolo D'Avanzo - INAF (IT); Wolf Geppert - Stockholm University Astrobiology Centre (SE); Gerry Gilmore - University of Cambridge (UK); Anita Heward - Europlanet (UK); Agata Karska - Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy & University of Bonn (DE); Markus Kissler-Patig - ESA; Antoine Kouchner - APC Paris (FR); Carme Jordi - Institute of Space Science of Catalonia (SP); Claudia Paladini - ESO; Milena Ratajczak - University of Warsaw (PL); Edita Stonkute - University of Vilnius (LT); Grazina Tautvaisiene - University of Vilnius (LT); Nicholas Walton - University of Cambridge (UK); ?ukasz Wyrzykowski - University of Warsaw (PL) ? Chair

Contact

Chair person: Lukasz Wyrzykowski lw a_t astrouw.edu.pl