The COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshops aim to promote the scientific use of space data by researchers in developing countries. They provide hands-on training using extensive archives from past and current space missions, along with online data analysis tools.
This two-week workshop will focus on analyzing space-based observations of coronal mass ejections, solar flares, solar energetic particle events, solar radio bursts, and the solar wind, complemented by ground-based data on radio bursts and geomagnetic storms.
Participants will work with data from the CDAW Data Center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, including missions such as SOHO, STEREO, Wind, and ACE. Type II radio burst data from the e-CALLISTO network and the global Radio Solar Telescope Network will also be used, together with contextual data from NOAA’s GOES and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
The workshop is designed for scientists and students from developing countries, particularly those where e-CALLISTO instruments are deployed. Special emphasis will be placed on participants from Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and other African nations. By the end of the workshop, participants will have the skills to conduct correlative analyses of Earth-impacting solar transients, thereby contributing to research on Sun–Earth connections.
We expect to host 35–40 participants. The target audience includes primarily young scientists, PhD candidates, advanced Master’s students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career professionals or junior staff members. Non-local participants will be fully accommodated in the university residence at no cost. Meals will be provided for all selected participants, and travel expenses will be partially covered. The school is free of charge.
The program includes introductory lectures on the Sun, solar corona, interplanetary medium, solar eruptions, shocks, and solar radio bursts; training in Python and web-based tools; and team projects that may lead to scientific publications. Participants may also apply for COSPAR fellowships to continue collaboration after the workshop.
Further details and application forms are available at:
https://cospar2026-nriag.com/
Scientific Organizing Committee: Nat Gopalswamy (USA, Chair), Christian Monstein (Switzerland), Denise Perrone (COSPAR, Italy), Christine Amory (France), Pertti Mäkelä (USA), Seiji Yashiro (USA), Susan Wassem Samwel (Egypt), Safinaz Ahmed (Egypt), Mohamed Semida (Egypt), Carlos Gabriel (COSPAR, Germany).
Local Organizing Committee: Mohamed Semida (NRIAG, Chair), Emad Abo-El Dahab (Helwan University), Safinaz Ahmed, Susan Wassem Samwel, Nadia aboualy, mahmoude sami, Amira Shimeis, Magda Moheb El-dine Hussein, Sara Said Khodairy Imbaby, Ahmed Abulwafa, Ashraf Khamees, Mahmoude Mostafa (All NRIAG).