EUROCARES: THE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY A EUROPEAN SAMPLE CURATION FACILITY.

Kurzfassung

EuroCares is an EU-funded project with the goal of preparing a roadmap of the stages required to establish a European facility for the curation of extraterrestrial materials, particularly materials collected by sample return missions. The project is part of the European Comission’s Horizon 2020 programme, and runs for three years from February 2015. It is led by the Natural History Museum in London, and has partners in thirteen institutions from six EU countries. A complementary abstract [1] out-lines the main scientific and technical aspects of the project, and the teams that have been established to undertake the work; here, we consider the educational and outreach opportunities that the project offers.