Community Coordination Meetings (CCMs) are opportunities to talk with the communities involved in the HELIO project, report on the project and seek user input. They also provide an excellent opportunity to recruit users that will participate in the User Groups and help test the capabilities of the project throughout its development.

In some cases the CCM will just take the form of a splinter session of an hour or so where the HELIO project will report on how the project is progressing, its current capabilities and what it is planning; users will be invited to provide input and comments to the project and help refine to next set of objectives. Splinter meetings might just be related to the HELIO project, but could also be held in conjunction with another project such as SOTERIA or Europlanet RI. We also plan to participate in splinter sessions initiated by other projects or organizations so that the capabilities of HELIO can be broadcast to a wider audience.

CCMs could be held in conjunction with major international scientific meetings such as the European Geosciences Union (usually held in the spring, most recently in Vienna), the European Space Weather Week (usually held in November, most recently in Belgium) and possibly also the European Planetary Space Congress (usually held in September). We may also hold one at the American Geophysical Union (usually held in San Francisco in December).

We are also considering whether we should request sessions at such meetings devoted to heliophysics in order to allow the project to expand the set of Use Cases that are helping define the HELIO project requirements.

Note: As a result of the close cooperation between HELIO, SOTERIA and Europlanet RI, the CASSIS proposal was prepared and successfully submitted. CASSIS – the "Coordination Action for the integration of Solar System Infrastructures and Science" – will start on 1 June 2010 and last for 36 months.