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EGU bystander intervension workshop – apply now!
  • 29 October 2024

Are you an EGU member who is looking to gain skills and confidence in responding to issues of harassment and bullying in the workplace? Why not join the EGU Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee’s Bystander Intervention Workshop on 22 November, run in partnership with ADVANCEGeo! Places are limited, so apply today!



EGU Public Engagement Grants: 2024 winners announced
  • 22 October 2024

The EGU Outreach Committee has named three Public Engagement Grant winners this year: a project to empower pre-teen girls to use geospatial technologies for sustainable farming, a project that will bring discussions of climate science into prisons, and a project to raise awareness of the diverse impacts of climate change through rural food and beverage events.



EGU signs DORA and CoARA agreements
  • 2 October 2024

EGU is pleased to announce that the Union is now a signatory of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), further reinforcing our commitment to Open Science, Open Research and Open Meetings.


Latest posts from EGU blogs

Did you know? Machine learning can help us understand the cryosphere!

Recently, Machine Learning (ML) has emerged as a powerful tool within cryospheric sciences, offering innovative and effective solutions for observing, modelling and understanding the frozen regions of the Earth. From learning snowfall patterns and predicting avalanche dynamics to speeding up the process of modelling ice sheets, ML has transformed cryospheric sciences and bears many opportunities for future research. Case study: Sea ice As an example, let’s consider how ML can help us observe, model, and downscale sea ice—there are a …


The Up-Goer Five challenge: Can you explain your science using only the thousand most common English words?

Science plays an important role in understanding and shaping the world we live in. It is the foundation for new knowledge and technologies. But due to its complexity, science is often hard to grasp especially for the broader public. To build public trust in science, it is important to make scientific findings accessible to everyone. Therefore, they need to be communicated in ways that everyone can understand. The Up-Goer Five challenge takes this idea to an extreme level. In this …


How to Promote Your EGU25 Session

Since October 23rd, abstract submissions for EGU25 are officially open! For session conveners, this is a critical phase and promoting your session is crucial. If you are co-convening a “traditional” session on a large topic that is run every year you might be inundated with abstracts already now or shortly before the deadline. However, many smaller sessions on more niche topics receive far fewer submissions. As a result, they are often merged with others or even pulled entirely from the …