EGU announces the Biodiversity Task Force members! 24 February 2022 EGU announces the new members of the Biodiversity Policy Task Force, who will develop new ways to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from research into practice and to connect policymakers in Europe to the most relevant geoscience experts! Read more
Job opportunity: EGU22 Press Assistant (photography) 14 February 2022 We are looking for a science communicator or science journalist with experience in photography and an interest in learning about how large geoscientific conferences work to join our Communications Team for the week of EGU22! This role is targeted towards students and recently graduated individuals, apply by 28 February 2022. Read more
Media registrations now open for the EGU General Assembly 2022 7 February 2022 Members of the media, public information officers and science bloggers are now invited to register for the meeting free of charge. EGU22 will be held from 23-27 May, 2022 both in-person (Vienna, Austria) and online. Read more
EGU22: registration is open! 1 February 2022 Registration for EGU22 is now open! Participant’s can choose to attend as an on-site participant and register until 13.00 CET 14 April or as a virtual participant and register until 27 May. Early-bird rates for both formats are available until 13.00 CET 31 March. Read more
EGU Outreach Committee sponsored workshop 27 January 2022 Are you an Early Career Scientist in the geosciences wanting to share your work with wider non-academic audiences? This EGU sponsored science writing workshop can help you to develop the specific skills for writing popular articles and interacting effectively with the media, led by tutors who work as science journalists and broadcasters. Places are limited to 30 people, so apply before 14 February to secure your spot. Read more
IMPORTANT UPDATE: EGU22 change of date and format 19 January 2022 Due to the changing regulations on events in Austria and concerns over high infection rates in Europe, we are moving the date of EGU22 to 23-27 May. Read more
EGU Education Committee seeks new members 18 January 2022 The EGU’s Education Committee is seeking to appoint new members, particularly Early Career Scientists, to join the committee to help EGU develop new initiatives in supporting geoscience teachers in primary, secondary and tertiary education. Apply by 28 February 2022. Read more
EGU announces election results 2 December 2021 The full results of the Union’s autumn 2021 election are now available. Read more
2022 call for EGU Geoscience Education Field Officers 1 December 2021 The EGU’s Education Committee is seeking to appoint volunteer geoscience education field officers to represent the EGU in countries across Europe. The major role of the field officers will be to provide professional development through interactive workshops for school teachers who have elements of geoscience in their teaching curriculum. Apply by 4 January 2022. Read more
EGU22: registration fees announcement 25 November 2021 As work continues on the new hybrid format for the General Assembly, get updated information about the various types of registration fees available for EGU22. Read more
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Group seeks a new Eastern European member 23 November 2021 EGU’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Group is seeking a new member to represent the views of Eastern European geoscientists within the working group and to contribute to actions to increase their participation in the European Geosciences Union. Interested persons should apply by 31 January 2022. Read more
Join the EGU’s new Biodiversity Task Force! 17 November 2021 EGU announces ‘Biodiversity’ as our new Policy Priority Area and launches an open call for members of the Biodiversity Policy Task Force, who will develop new ways to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from research into practice and to connect policymakers in Europe to the most relevant geoscience experts. Read more
EGU announces its 2022 awards and medals! 3 November 2021 The European Geosciences Union is honouring 50 people at all stages of their careers who have made substantial contributions to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. Read more
EGU Public Engagement Grants: 2021 winners announced 2 November 2021 The EGU Outreach Committee has named three Public Engagement Grant winners this year: a card game of geological time, space weather teaching kits for blind and visually impaired students and a musical about climate change! Read more
The Loupe – October: Venture into space! 2 November 2021 Venture into space! Learn more about why we study space science with Joby Hollis, meet the Planetary Sciences Division ECS rep Joshua Dreyer and submit your abstract to EGU22! Read more
Vote for the next EGU President, General Secretary and Division Presidents 1 November 2021 From now until 30 November 2021, EGU members can vote in the Autumn 2021 EGU Election. If you are a 2021 member of the Union, you should have already received an email with a personalised voting link. Remember that active participation in EGU elections ensures continuation of the well-established bottom-up structure of our Union! Read more
Call for abstracts to the EGU General Assembly 2022 now open! 25 October 2021 The EGU General Assembly 2022 (23-27 May) will bring together geoscientists from all over the world for an hybrid format meeting, combing both in-person and online elements, that will cover all disciplines in the Earth, planetary and space sciences. Read more
Previous EGU medallists awarded Nobel Prize for Physics! 7 October 2021 Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann, two former EGU medal winners have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on climate modelling, alongside physical systems modeller Giorgio Parisi. Read more
The Loupe – September: Climate activism and air pollution 1 October 2021 Climate science and activism. Find out how environmental activism became climate activism, meet the Atmospheric Sciences Division ECS rep Mengze Li and apply to work as EGU’s new Editorial Manager! Read more
First insights from new EGU author survey 1 October 2021 After 6 months of surveying the initial results of the Publication Committee’s first author survey are available. Find out what our authors think of the open peer review system, publishing times and publishing costs, and what that will mean for EGU publishing in the future. Read more