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The SPEARHEAD Horizon Europe project participated actively in the EGU General Assembly 2026, presenting a broad range of new scientific results related to Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs), Forbush decreases (FDs), CME-driven shocks, particle transport, and heliospheric modelling. Through oral presentations and posters, SPEARHEAD researchers showcased recent advances based on multi-spacecraft observations, simulations, catalogues, and open-source analysis tools.

Today at the EGU General Assembly 2026, Dr. Manon Jarry (Postdoctoral researcher at NOA) delivered an oral presentation in the session “ST1.8 Acceleration and Transport of Suprathermal and Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere”. Her talk, titled “Proton acceleration by CME-driven shock during the 21 November 2024 (GLE76) event”, focused on one of the most intriguing recent solar energetic particle events.

Today at the EGU General Assembly 2026, the SPEARHEAD project delivered a presentation focused on Solar Orbiter observations of Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs).

We are pleased to announce the SPEARHEAD School that will take place from 04-08 September 2026 at Kiel, Germany – hosted by the Christian Albrechts Universitat zu Kiel (CAU). The School will provide hands-on training with SPEARHEAD tools and data, offering participants a practical and interactive learning experience

The Horizon Europe project SPEARHEAD (SPEcification, Analysis & Re-calibration of High Energy pArticle Data) has successfully completed its second Interim Report Meeting (IRM2), marking another major milestone in the project’s lifecycle.

A new catalogue of >100 MeV solar energetic proton events Within the framework of the SPEARHEAD project, we present a new catalogue of high energy particles observed by SOHO/ERNE in the last three solar cycles (1996–2024), with protons of >100 MeV.

In May 2025, the University of Turku hosted the intensive Master’s-level course High-energy Particles in the...

On 11 November 2025, a powerful X5-class solar flare erupted from the Sun at 10:10 UTC, associated with a...

The SPEARHEAD project made a strong presence at this year’s European Space Weather Week (ESWW2025) with...

Our activity “From the Aurora to the Moon and Mars: Unveiling the Secrets of Solar Eruptions” sparked the...

A new open-access review led by Dr. Athanasios Papaioannou (National Observatory of Athens) and co-authors has just been published in Space Science Reviews

An overview of the SPEARHEAD project and the results from its first year were presented at the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA)/ International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI) Joint Scientific Meeting 2025, held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 31 August – 05 September 2025.