Each MoonMars workshop is always looking for motivated individuals who want to push the younger generation and all humankind beyond the bounds of Earth. If you are interested in helping to organize a Moon Mars Working Group event, advising or sponsoring a delegate, or attending a workshop as a speaker, expert or delegate, we encourage you to contact us for further information.

You can be involved in some or all of the following activities of the Moon Mars Working Group:

Online work groups: By participating in online forums, you can undertake research in various fields related to Moon/Mars exploration, guided by experts and MMWG moderators, your work will be included in papers to be presented and published at conferences and in journals.

Annual meetings: As well as this, the Moon Mars Working Group holds an annual meeting coinciding with the International Astronautical Congress and the Space Generation Congress. These meetings acts as platforms to discuss the past years work, participate in work groups, discuss with invited exerts and to brainstorm for topics for study in the following year.

Dedicated workshops: There are also topic dedicated workshops, of approximately a week long. These focus on specific topics such as “Human Factors”, “Design of a MoonMars program”, “Advanced Propulsion and Power sources”, “Lunar Base Design” etc. These events are planned to be held across the world and thus aiming to come close to those students who cannot travel to the annual meetings.

Locally organized lectures and workshops: The Moon Mars Working Group supports anybody who wishes to organize a lecture or day long workshop at their university or institute. Single lectures by a professor in your University, or an all-day event discussing the future of MoonMars exploration in your country, all activities will reinforce the Moon Mars Working Group and will provide interesting and educative experiences in your locality.

What will you do?
This years online workgroups will research and discuss six topics that will lead to publications to be presented at the International Astronautical Congress and other conferences and journals. There is no limit to how many forums you participate.

Topics vary each year, but generally are:
• Investigation into current Moon/Mars plans, programs and missions.
• Enabling technologies and advanced concepts.
• How do we get support for large investment and sustainable manned Moon/Mars programs? (Social, economic and legal aspects).
• Lunar base designs and concepts.
• Using the past as a tool for the present
• Educational methods for the training of the next generation space workforce.

You have the opportunity to suggest topics for next year via the online forums or the annual meeting, so send in suggestions and ideas at the forum.

Each MoonMars workshop selects different topics to focus on to push MoonMars exploration. What we hope to contribute to an arena full of high level scientific and political discussion is an overview of commonalities and tips for each aspect of the further human exploration of our near solar system and a truly young and international opinion on the various topics.

To learn more about our topics, please visit our 'Workshops' page.