Background

Initially proposed by members of the ESA Space Weather Working Team (SWWT) at the SWWT meeting held on 18 Dec. 2002 at ESA/ESTEC, the "Education, Outreach and Emerging Markets (EOEM)" topical group is one of the SWWT topical groups:

• Fundamental Research (e.g. solar, S-T, including future missions and instrumentation)
• Ground Effects (GIC, prospecting, tourism)
• Atmospheric Effects (incl. Drag)
• Ionospheric Effects
• Spacecraft & Aircraft Environments
• Programmatics
• Education, Outreach and Emerging Markets (EOEM)

EOEM OBJECTIVES:

• To cover education (primary to university), both formally (e.g. schooling, textbooks, etc.) and informally (e.g. museums, webcasts, etc.) services.
• To cover public outreach activities (e.g. TV/radio programs, popular books, etc.).
• To cover emerging space weather markets by acting as umbrella for markets until they are "mature enough" to have a topical group of their own in the context of a European space weather program.