COSPAR co-organizes/co-sponsors a limited number of meetings and Colloquia each year that are of interest to its Associates. To apply for co-sponsorship, moral and/or financial, a formal request must be sent to the Secretariat which includes, at a minimum, the following information:

·       the scientific program with an endorsement from the relevant COSPAR Scientific Commission/Panel Chair explaining how the event complements the work of COSPAR,

·       the international composition of the program committee,

·       other sponsors and their level of sponsorship, and

·       a description of how the funds, if requested, will be spent.

Support is usually limited to a maximum of 1,000 Euros for co-sponsored meetings. For COSPAR Colloquia a maximum of 3,000 Euros is generally allocated as seed money. Organizers of COSPAR Colloquia are asked to commit to the publication of selected papers in Advances in Space Research. The COSPAR Bureau will consider sponsorship requests at its meetings (generally in March and, in even numbered years, also in July) and wishes to receive documentation about two months in advance for proper consideration.

Events co-sponsored from 1997 on are listed below. Links to organizers are provided when this information has been supplied to the Secretariat. Please contact the COSPAR Secretariat or the main organizers for further information. See the Assemblies, Symposia, Colloquia, and Capacity Building Workshops pages on the COSPAR web site for the listing of COSPAR organized meetings.

• Meteoroids, Meteors, and Meteorites: Messengers from Space” (MetMeSS-2024), Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, 20 – 22 November 2024
• 1st Colombian Symposium on Astrochemistry (SICOAQ), Bogota, Colombia, 23 – 26 October 2024
• ISWI International School on Space Science, Nepal, 15 – 21 September 2024
• 12th International Workshop on Long-Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere, Universidade de Vigo (Ourense, Galicia, Spain), 6 –10 May 2024
• International Planetary Protection Week, London, UK, 22-25 April 2024
• XIV COLAGE and International Space Sciences School (ISSS), Monterrey, Mexico, 8-13 April 2024
• International Conference on Planets, Exoplanets and Habitability, Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, India, 05 – 09 February 2024
• The Economics and Law of Space-based Commerce, WTI-ISSI, Bern, Switzerland, 17-18 January 2024
• Understanding the Atmospheric Effects of Spacecraft Re-entry, ESTEC, the Netherlands, 10-11 January 2024
• ISSI-BJ School on Exploring the Moon, GISTDA, Si Racha, Chon Buri, Thailand, 17 – 24 October 2023
• Grupo Lusophono de Astronomia para o Desenvolvimento/Portuguese Office of Astronomy for Development (PLOAD) of the IAU, “Congresso Internacional de Ensino em Astronomia e Eclipse Solar Anular” (International Congress on Astronomy Education and the Annular Solar Eclipse), 9 – 14 October 2023, Imperatriz (Maranhão), Brazil.
• Space Week Nordeste 2023 “Space Science and Technologies for the Benefit of Nature and Society,” Fortaleza, Brazil, 14 – 20 August 2023
• Latin American Conference on Space Geophysics “XIII COLAGE”, ALAGE, São José dos Campos, Brazil, 27 November – 2 December 2022
• 7th General Assembly of SPARC, 24 – 28 October 2022, US, UK, and China.  Please download and display the poster.
• COSPAR ISWAT 2022 Working Meeting Announcement, Coimbra Portugal, September 26 – 30, 2022
•  International Forum on Post Pandemic International Cooperation on Space Science, organized jointly and virtually by CSSR, NSSC, and COSPAR, 25 August 2022, Beijing, China
•  VIII Symposium on Space Geophysics and Aeronomy & VIII Symposium on Physics and Astronomy (VIII SBGEA & VIII SimFAST Joint Symposium), 22-26 March 2021, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
•  Workshop “Towards Future Research on Space Weather Drivers”, and the associated school “Towards Future Research on Space Weather: Concepts and Tools,” 2 – 7 July 2019, San Juan, Argentina
•  32nd International Symposium on Space Technology and Science and 9th NSAT, 15 – 21 June 2019, Fukui, Japan
•  ESA Living Planet Symposium, 13-17 May 2019, Milan, Italy
•  International Workshop on Climate Change and Extreme Events in The Himalayan Region, 18-20 April 2018, Indian Institute of Technology, Himachal Pradesh, India
•  Annual African Geophysical Society (AGS) Conference on Space Weather, 25-28 March 2019, Cairo, Egypt
•  15th International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy (ISEA-15), 22 – 26 October 2018, Ahmedabad, India
•  2nd ISSI-BJ and APSCO space school on “Study of Space Weather Effects:  from the Sun to the Ground,” 10 – 19 October 2018, Sanya, China
•  6th SPARC General Assembly, 1 – 5 October 2018, Kyoto, Japan
•  COSPAR Workshop on Refining Planetary Protection Requirements Human Missions to Mars, 15 – 16 May 2018, Houston, TX, USA
•  Eleventh Latin American meeting of Space Geophysics (XI COLAGE), 15 – 20 April 2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina
•  ESLAB2017  Extreme Habitable Worlds, 4 – 8 December 2017, ESTEC, Netherlands
•  Joint COSPAR/Radiation Research Society Symposium at the latter’s annual meeting, 15 – 18 October 2017, Cancun, Mexico
•  IAGA Scientific Assembly, 27 August – 1 September 2017, Cape Town, South Africa
•  IAU Symposium 335 – ‘Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts’, 17-21 July 2017, Exeter, UK
•  Summer School on Advanced Concepts in Solar-Terrestrial Coupling in the Context of Space Weather at the VarSITI-2017 General Symposium, 9 – 15 July 2017, Irkutsk, Russia
•  31st International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, 3 – 9 June 2017, Matsuyama, Japan
•  7^th European Conference on Space Debris, 18 – 21 April 2017, ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany
•  12th IACHEC Meeting, 27 – 30 March 2017, Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA
•  ISWI Workshop, Coronal and Interplanetary Shocks: Data Analysis from SOHO, Wind, and e-CALLISTO Data, 19 – 25 February 2017, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
•  AAE Colloquium on Planetary Exploration, Horizon 2061, end 2016
•  SCOSTEP/ISWI International School on Space Science- 2016, 07-17  November 2016, Sangli, Maharashtra, India
•  COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection Workshop on Refining Planetary Protection Requirements for Human Missions, 25 – 27 October 2016, Houston, TX, USA, contact for information:  Ms. Amy Baker: tasalb@msn.com
• IAU Symposium 327 – ‘Fine Scale and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere’, 9 -14 October 2016, Cartagena, Colombia
•  GCOS Conference “Global Climate Observation:  the Road to the Future, Shaping the Next GCOS Implementation Plan,” 2 – 4 March 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
•  COSPAR PEX / ISECG Workshop on Scientific Perspectives for the Global Exploration Roadmap, 10 – 11 February 2016, Paris, France
•  ILWS / COSPAR Space Weather Roadmap Workshop, 25 – 29 January 2016, Goa, India
•  International Conference on Solar Variability and its Heliospheric Effects, 2 – 6 November 2015, Athens, Greece
•  COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection Colloquium, 22 – 24 September 2015, Bern, Switzerland
•  Radiation Research Society 61^st Annual Meeting, 19 – 22 September 2015, Weston, Florida, USA
•  30^th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS), 4 – 10 July 2015, Kobe, Japan
•  IAGA Summer School / IAGA General Assembly, 22 June – 2 July 2015, Prague, Czech Republic
•  SCOSTEP 13th Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium, 12 – 17 October 2014, Xi’an, China
•  UN/Austria Expert Meeting on “The Future Role of Space Science in the UN Programme on Space Applications,” September 2014, Graz, Austria
•  Life in Space for Life on Earth, joint meeting of the International Society of Gravitational Physiology and ESA, 16 – 20 June 2014, Waterloo, Canada
•  14th International Workshop on Technical and Scientific Aspects of MST Radar, 25 – 31 May 2014, INPE, Brazil
•  COSPAR Workshop on Special Regions, Locations, and Resource Relationships, 1 – 3 April 2014, Montreal, Canada
•  SPARC General Assembly, 12 – 17 January 2014, Queenstown, New Zealand
•  SCOSTEP School in Space Sciences, 21 October – 1 November 2013, Nairobi, Kenya
•  Symposium on Cosmic Magnetic Fields: Legacy of A.B. Severny, 2 – 6 September 2013, Nauchny, Crimea, Ukraine, yur_crao@mail.ru
• 12th IAGA Scientific Assembly, 26 – 31 August 2013, Merida, Mexico
•  XXIII Festival d’Astronomie de Fleurance, 3 – 9 August 2013, Fleurance, France
•  2013 International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) Workshop, 24 – 28 June 2013, Olsztyn, Poland
•  29th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, 2 – 9 June 2013, Nagoya, Japan
•  COST Action ES1005, Training School for Students and Young Researchers, “Towards a More Complete Assessment of the Impact of Solar Variability on the Earth’s Climate,” 10 – 15 March 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece
•  6th European Conference on Space Debris, 22 – 26 April 2013, ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany
•  COSPAR Workshop on Developing a Responsible Environmental Regime for Celestial Bodies, 7 December 2012, Washington, DC, USA
•  International Symposium on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISSTP2012), 6 – 9 November 2012, Pune, India
•  20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry, 24 – 29 September 2012, Venice-Lido, Italy
•  22nd Astronomy Festival, 4 – 10 August 2012, Fleurance, France
•  MPI Galileo Mobile Astronomy Outreach Project, around COSPAR 2012, schools in villages near Bangalore and Mysore, India, post-project report
•  9th International Planetary Probe Workshop, 16 – 22 June 2012, Toulouse, France
•  Human and Robotic Exploration: a Scientific Perspective (a plenary of the Global Space Exploration Conference), 23 May 2012, Washington, DC
•  UN/Nigeria Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI), 17 – 21 October 2011, Abuja, Nigeria
•  URSI/COSPAR International Reference Ionosphere Workshop, 10 – 14 October 2011, Hermanus, South Africa
•  IAU Symposium 286 “Comparative Magnetic Minima: Characterizing Quiet Times in the Sun and Stars,” 3 – 7 October 2011, Mendoza, Argentina
•  New Technologies for Future Space Astronomy Missions, a symposium of the 62nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 3 – 7 October 2011, Cape Town, South Africa
•  28^th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (28^th ISTS), 5 – 12 June 2011, Ginowan City, Okinawa, Japan
•  IX Latin-American Conference on Space Geophysics (IX COLAGE), 5 – 10 April 2011, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
•  International Earth-based Research Program as a Stepping Stone for Global Space Exploration Workshop, 2 – 4 March 2011, Washington, DC, USA
•  ISWI-Africa School in Space Physics, 22 Nov. – 3 Dec. 2010, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
•  UN/NASA/JAXA International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) Workshops in Egypt(2010), Nigeria (2011), and Ecuador (2012)
•  1^st Conference on Physics of the Community of the Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), 12 – 17 September 2010, Maputo, Mozambique
•  Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration Workshop (TEPA-2010), 6 – 11 September 2010, Nor Amberd, Armenia
•  9^th International Microbeam Workshop, 16 – 17 July 2010, Darmstadt, Germany
•  Workshop on Ethical Considerations for Planetary Protection in Space Exploration, 8 – 10 June 2010, Princeton, NJ, USA
•  IAU Symposium S269, Galileo’s Medicean Moons: their Impact on 400 years of Discovery, 6 – 9 January 2010, Padova, Italy
•  International Year of Astronomy (IYA), IAU, 2009
•  Titan Planetary Protection Workshop, 9 – 10 December 2009, Pasadena, CA, USA
•  6^th European Space Weather Week (ESWW6), 16 – 20 November, 2009 Bruges, Belgium
•  URSI/COSPAR International Reference Ionosphere Workshop, 2 – 7 November 2009, Kagoshima, Japan
•  11^th IAGA Scientific Assembly, 23 – 30 August 2009, Sopron, Hungary
•  27^th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (27^th ISTS), 5 – 12 July 2009, Tsukuba City, Japan
•  Workshop on Planetary Protection, Outer Planet Satellites and Small Bodies, 15 – 17 April 2009, Vienna, Austria
•  Frontiers of Space Astrophysics: Neutron Stars and Gamma Ray Bursts, 30 March – 4 April 2009, Alexandria, Egypt
•  1^st Panda Symposium, 30 March – 3 April 2009, Lijiang, Yunnan, China
•  5^th European Conference on Space Debris, 30 March – 2 April 2009, Darmstadt, Germany
•  5^th European Space Weather Week (ESWW5), 17 – 21 November 2008, Brussels, Belgium
•  Forecasting of Radiation and Geomagnetic Storms by Networks of Particle Detectors (FORGES-2008), 29 Sept. – 3 October 2008, Nor Amberd, Armenia
•  Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) session at the International Astronautical Congress, 2 October 2008, Glasgow, UK
•  4^th SPARC General Assembly, 31 August – 5 September 2008, Bologna, Italy
•  12^th International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy (ISEA 12), Univ. of Crete, 18 – 24 May 2008, Crete, Greece
•  International Polar Year and the Importance of Understanding the Polar Regions of the Earth, the Moon, and Mars, NAS SSB, NASA, COSPAR, 27 March 2008, Paris, France
•  Workshop on Planetary Protection, COSPAR, 16 – 18 January 2008, Montreal, Canada
•  IHY-Africa Space Weather, Science and Education Workshop, 11 – 16 November 2007, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
•  Fourth European Space Weather Week, ESA & Belgian Science Policy Office, 5 – 9 November 2007, Brussels, Belgium
•  Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of the Galileo Programme, ANAE, Bureau des Longitudes, Académie de Marine, and ESA, 2 – 4 October 2007, Toulouse, France
•  URSI/COSPAR International Reference Ionosphere Workshop, “Ionosphere-Modeling, Forcing and Telecommunications,” 10 – 14 July 2007, Prague, Czech Rep.
•  16^th Humans in Space Symposium, IAA, 20 – 24 May 2007, Beijing, China
•  The Future of Space Exploration: Solutions to Earthly Problems, Center for Space Physics of Boston Univ. & Pardee Center for the Study of Longer Range Future, 12 – 14 April 2007, Boston, MA, USA
•  International Heliophysical Year (IHY), 2007
• Conference on Earth-Sun System Exploration: Energy Transfer, APL & STEL, 16 – 20 January 2006, Kona, Hawaii, USA
•  UN/ESA/NASA Workshop on the International Heliophysical Year IHY 2007, 20 – 23 November 2005, Abu-Dhabi and Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
•  Solar Extreme Events: Fundamental Science and Applied Aspects (SEE 2005), 26 – 30 September 2005, Nor Amberd, Armenia
•  10^th IUGG/IAGA Scientific Assembly, 18 – 29 July 2005, Toulouse, France
•  URSI/COSPAR International Reference Ionosphere Workshop, 27 June – 1 July 2005, Ebre Observatory, Roquetes, Spain
•  15^th Humans in Space Symposium, IAA, 22 – 26 May 2005, Graz, Austria
•  4^th European Conference on Space Debris, ESA, 18 – 20 April 2005, Darmstadt, Germany
•  Sun-Earth Connection Physics: the Geoimpact of CMEs, CIRs, and Ordinary Solar Wind, UNAM, 8 – 12 November 2004, Yucatan, Mexico
•  3^rd SPARC General Assembly, 1 – 6 August 2004, Victoria, BC, Canada
•  IAU Symposium 223: Multi-wavelength Investigations of Solar Activities, 14 – 19 June 2004, St. Petersburg, Russia
•  VII Conference of the Latin American Association of Space Geophysics ALAGE, 29 March – 2 April 2004, Brazil
•  Conference on Sun-Earth Connection: Multiscale Coupling in Sun-Earth Processes, APL and STEL, 9 – 13 February 2004, Kona, HI, USA
•  Magnetospheric Response to Solar Activity, Charles Univ. & Czech Acad. of Sciences, 9 – 12 September 2003, Prague, Czech Rep.
•  URSI/COSPAR International Reference Ionosphere Workshop, 6 – 10 October 2003, Rhodes Univ., Grahamstown, South Africa
•  Advanced Research Workshop on Effects of Space Weather on Technology Infrastructure (ESPRIT), National Obs. of Athens, 25 – 29 March 2003, Rhodes, Greece
•  International Workshop on Earth System Processes Related to the Gujarat Earthquake Using Space Technology, 27 – 29 January 2003, ITT Kanpur, India
•  Europe and Space Debris, Academie Nationale de l’Air et de l’Espace, 27 – 28 November 2002, Toulouse, France
•  11^th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science, World Space Observatory and Virtual Observatories in the Era of 10m Telescopes, CONAE and Univ. de la Plata, 9 – 13 September 2002, Cordoba, Argentina
•  18^th European Cosmic Ray Symposium, Russian Science Academy, 8 – 12 July 2002, Moscow, Russia
•  Workshop on Planetary Protection Panel on Planetary Protection, 1 – 4 April 2002, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
•  Venus Int. Workshop 21st Venus Exploration ISAS, 15 – 17 October 2001, Sagamihara, Japan
•  Int. School on Analysis Techniques for Space Plasma Data CNRS, 8 – 13 October 2001, La Londe Les Maures, France
•  VI Conference of the Latin American Association of Space Geophysics ALAGE, 1 – 6 October 2001, Conception, Chile
•  Sixth International School/Symposium for Space Simulations URSI, 3 – 8 September 2001, Garching, Germany
•  Modeling the Low Latitude Ionosphere Workshop IRI (A COSPAR/URSI Task Group), 25 – 29 June 2001, INPE, Brazil
•  Workshop on Data Analysis and Image Processing Techniques UN/ESA/COSPAR, 25 – 29 March 2001, Damascus, Syria
•  3rd European Conference on Space Debris ESA, 19 – 21 March 2001, Darmstadt, Germany
•  AGU Chapman Conference on Storm-Substorm Relationship AGU, 12 – 16 March 2001, Lonavala, India
•  Workshop on Satellite Data Reduction and Analysis TechniquesUN/ESA/ISRO/COSPAR, 27 – 30 November 2000 (dates tentative), UN Centre at Dehra Dun, India
•  2^nd SPARC General Assembly, 6 – 10 November 2000, Mar del Plata, Argentina
•  MARISY 2000, Centre Royal de Télédétection Spatiale, Morocco, 26 – 27 October 2000, Rabat, Morocco
•  First S-RAMP Conference, SCOSTEP, 2 – 6 October 2000, Sapporo, Japan
•  1^st Int. Solar Cycle Study Symposium 25 – 27 July 2000, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia
•  Advanced Study Institute Conference on Space Storms and Space Weather Hazards NATO, 19 – 20 June 2000, Crete, Greece
•  Chapman Conference on Space Weather AGU, February 2000, Florida, USA
•  The Plasmasphere Rediscovered: a Tribute to Donald Carpenter, URSI Commission H, 14 August 1999, Toronto, Canada
•  International Conference on Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets (MOP 99), Observatoire de Paris, 9 – 14 August 1999, Paris, France
•  IRI 1999 Workshop IRI (a COSPAR/URSI Task Group), 9 – 12 August 1999, Lowell, MA, USA
•  5^th Asia-Pacific Conference on Multilateral Cooperation in Space Technology and Application Iranian Remote Sensing Center, 2-7 May 1999, Tehran, Iran
•  Long-term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere (LT-ACT-99) Indian Inst. of Tropical Meteorology, 16 – 19 February 1999, Pune, India
•  Fifth Latin American Conference on Space Geophysics (COLAGE), ALAGE, November 1998, San Jose, Costa Rica
•  Project on International Solar Cycle Studies (ISCS) SCOSTEP, 11 July, Nagoya, Japan
•  Cometary Nuclei in Space and Time IAU, 18 – 22 May 1998, Nanjing, China
•  Jovian System after Galileo, Saturnian System before Cassini/Huygens European Commission/TMR Program, 11 – 15 May 1998, Nantes, France
•  Data Analysis Techniques UN/COSPAR/ESA/Brazil, 10 – 14 November 1997, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
•  Space Radiation Environment Modelling Skobeltsyn Inst. of Nuclear Physics, 7 – 9 October 1997, Moscow, Russia
•  Interaction of Small Bodies with Planets IAU, August 1997, Kyoto, Japan
•  New Dev. in Ionospheric Modelling and Prediction IRI (a COSPAR/URSI Working Group), 27 – 30 May 1997, Kuehlungsborn, Germany
•  Global Measurement Systems for Atmospheric Composition SPARC, 20 – 22 May, 1997, Toronto, Canada