One of our key services (and the way that many people know our organisation) is through our annual General Assembly – a meeting of around 20,000 researchers that is held in Vienna, Austria, and online in each spring. This meeting is a critical event for our community, a place for scientists to get new ideas and come together to discuss their work, plans and struggles, in a world that is increasingly hostile to scientists and to safe and secure workplaces.
This year’s conference, EGU26, marks the 20th anniversary of the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, a huge milestone for both the EGU community and its partners; the Austria Center Vienna (our venue), and the Vienna Convention Bureau. To commemorate this jubilee, we propose a collaborative art mural in Vienna, giving context to the local audience on the thousands of geoscientists who gather in their neighbourhood each year! The mural aims to:
- Provide a lasting impression for Viennese people of all ages, highlighting the longstanding relationship between their city and EGU.
- Celebrate the anniversary by further fostering collaboration between the EGU community and Viennese artists.
- Showcase key advances in (geo)sciences from the last 20 years, while bringing in a local connection with geoscientific discoveries from Vienna-based scientists of the past (continent of Gondwana, Neodymium element, the snow globe).
- Feature the new EGU26 logo with the text “Celebrating 20 years of geoscience in Vienna!” as context for the artistic design. The optional QR code would direct the audience to an EGU blog post for further information and a detailed breakdown of the scientific components found within the mural.
