ALTHOUGH OBSERVATIONS FROM THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE (HST) IN DECEMBER 2012 SUGGESTED THE PRESENCE OF WATER VAPOR PLUMES AT THE SOUTH POLE OF THE JOVIAN MOON EUROPA THIS FINDING COULD NOT BE CONFIRMED DURING SEVERAL FOLLOW-UP CAMPAIGNS. ONLY VERY RECENTLY ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE OF PLUMES AT EUROPA WAS FOUND IN HST DATA. HOWEVER THE MECHANISM THAT GOVERNS THE ACTIVITY VARIATIONS OF THESE VENTS IS YET TO BE REVEALED. TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF PLUMES AT EUROPA AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE MOON'S MAGNETOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT THIS PROJECT WILL EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY TO INDEPENDENTLY CONSTRAIN THE PROPERTIES OF THESE PLUMES THROUGH IN-SITU PLASMA AND MAGNETIC FIELD OBSERVATIONS FROM PAST (GALILEO) AND FUTURE (JUICE EUROPA CLIPPER) SPACECRAFT MISSIONS. BY APPLYING A HYBRID SIMULATION MODEL (KINETIC IONS FLUID ELECTRONS) WE WILL SYSTEMATICALLY ASSESS HOW DIFFERENT PLUME SOURCE STRENGTHS AND LOCATIONS WOULD MODIFY THE PLASMA AND MAGNETIC FIELD PERTURBATIONS GENERATED BY THE INTERACTION OF EUROPA'S ASYMMETRIC GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE AND INDUCED DIPOLE WITH THE AMBIENT MAGNETOSPHERIC PLASMA. ESPECIALLY WE WILL MODEL THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT PLUME CONFIGURATIONS ON THE AMBIENT PLASMA FOR VARIOUS DISTANCES BETWEEN EUROPA AND JUPITER'S PLASMA SHEET. WHEN EUROPA IS LOCATED AWAY FROM THE CENTER OF THE SHEET THE MOON'S IMMEDIATE MAGNETIC ENVIRONMENT IS DOMINATED BY THE DIPOLE FIELD INDUCED IN ITS CONDUCTING SUBSURFACE OCEAN. WE WILL DETERMINE WHETHER THIS INDUCED FIELD CAN OBSCURE THE VISIBILITY OF POSSIBLE PLUMES IN MAGNETIC FIELD DATA. IN ADDITION WE WILL ANALYZE TO WHAT DEGREE LARGE-SCALE ASYMMETRIES IN EUROPA'S GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE CAN COMPLICATE THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE MAGNETIC AND PLASMA SIGNATURES GENERATED BY PLUMES. BASED ON THE MODEL WE WILL ALSO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF POSSIBLE PLUMES ON THE CURRENT SYSTEMS AND MAGNETIC FIELD SIGNATURES IN EUROPA'S DISTANT ALFVEN WINGS THEREBY EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITY TO USE DATA FROM DISTANT FLYBYS FOR A "REMOTE" CHARACTERIZATION OF PLUMES.