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 and new networking opportunities available to European astronomers. The forum launched during EWASS 2017 in Prague and has been held every year since then.

* Maintain the EAS Forum as a platform for discussing ways to support under-represented astronomical communities in Europe, especially enhancing their potential to participate in major infrastructures and outreach programmes, and to increase internationalisation.

* Support the professionalisation of astronomical communities in Europe by identifying ways to increase opportunities and access to training, mentoring, exchange schemes, secondments and fellowships, travel and research grants, and to increase diversity in the field.

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

Programme

• ESA opportunities for science, outreach, education and industry
• Astrobiology and Europlanet networks
• Opportunities within the new ACME multimessenger network
• European Interferometry Initiative
• European COST actions in astronomy
• Activities of the IAU in Europe
• IAU Junior Members (JMs)
• Outreach and educational activities

Invited speakers

• Markus Kissler-Patig (ESA, Spain) - Networking opportunities through ESA
• Heidi Korhonen (MPIA, Germany) - Training plans in ACME project.
• Gerry Gilmore (FORTH, Greece) - OPTICON-Alliance - past, present, future
• Lukasz Wyrzykowski (NCBJ, Poland) - European Astronomical Society of Small Telescopes (EASST) - where the sky begins
• Catherine Walsh (Leeds, UK) - Presentation of the COST Action PLANETS
• Rob Beswick, Izabela Rottmann, Damien Dornic - Enabling Access to Leading Astrophysical Research Infrastructures with ACME
• 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) ; Agata Karska - Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and University of Bonn (DE) ; Markus Kissler-Patig - ESA ; Antoine Kouchner - APC Paris (FR) ; Carme Jordi - University of Barcelona (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) ; Lukasz Wyrzykowski - University of Warsaw (PL) - Chair

Contact

Contact chair Lukasz Wyrzykowski for more information and suggestions for invited talks. Email: lw  @  astrouw.edu.pl