Agora – Project report

Development of research capacities in space weather: a successful international cooperation

¹ LPP, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris-Sud/Observatoire de Paris, 75006 Paris, France
² The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Strada Costiera 11, 34151 Trieste, Italy
³ Institute for Scientific Research (ISR), Boston College, Chestnut Hill, 02467 MA, USA
⁴ United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, 1220 Vienna, Austria
⁵ Lab-STICC, UMR 6285, Institut Mines-Telecom Atlantique, Site de Brest, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France
⁶ CRASTE-LF, 10090 Rabat, Morocco
⁷ Université Versailles Saint-Quentin, CNRS/INSU, LATMOS, IPSL, 78280 Guyancourt, France
⁸ Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, 464-8601 Nagoya, Japan

^* Corresponding author: christine.amory@lpp.polytechnique.fr

Received: 17 November 2020
Accepted: 1 February 2021

Abstract

This paper presents an international cooperation which has successfully developed research capacities in the scientific disciplines of sun–earth relations and space weather in many countries over the world during the past decades. This success was based on the deployment of scientific instruments in countries that did not have them, on the sharing of knowledge and research tools, on thesis supervision and on the integration of researchers trained in their country. This article will only focus on aspects of training conducted by ICTP, Boston College, ICG, SCOSTEP and GIRGEA. We will highlight what has been enhanced in international cooperation to achieve this success and what remains to be done.