The objectives of the project are:

• To establish new knowledge on the atmosphere of exoplanets by exploiting archived space data (HST, Spitzer, Kepler). More specifically, building on state-of the art knowledge and long term experience by the project team, novel data reduction methods based on causal pixel model will be developped and a homogeneous set of atmospheric exoplanet spectra from HST and Spitzer archives will be produced; ‘classical’ atmosphere parameters (atomic, molecular composition, pressure-temperature profile) retrieval approaches will be improved, making them able to simultaneously deal with transmission and emission observations and novel retrieval methods no longer based on a two steps approach (data reduction to get spectra and then retrieval from the spectra) will be developed, but on a one step approach combining data reduction and retrieval models; 3 D modelling of exoplanet atmosphere will be developed; the novel data reduction and retrieval tools will be used to analyse JWST observations of exoplanet atmospheres to be conducted in the framework of the JWST Early Release Science program.
  

• To disseminate knowledge, which consists of our science products, public outreach and educational resources. In particular a knowledge server connected to astronomical archives and virtual observatories will be produced and the scientific community and citizens will be engaged through contributive research and educational tools.