EGU GA 2025

Build your Open Science practice! Visit the Open Science & Data Help Desk at EGU26!

Martina Stockhause and Hazel Gibson April 28, 2026

Image credit: DrewHemment (imaggeo.egu.eu)

Trusted data propels trusted science. From crafting data management plans to using software, Earth scientists can create change that makes research more accessible and reproducible. The Open Science & Data Help Desk connects Earth science researchers and data experts – bring your questions and join us at EGU26 in the Exhibition Hall X2 at #X207! The Open Science & Data Help Desk features ...[Read More]

What’s on at EGU26: highlights from Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee

Asmae Ourkiya April 21, 2026

EGU Flags at EGU General Assembly 2016. Credit: EGU / Kai Boggild (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

There are so many great events to participate in at EGU26 this year, in both on-site and virtual formats, that it can be very easy to feel overwhelmed. Whilst we encourage you to make good use of your Personal Programme to help organise your activities, we also reached out to several of EGU’s Committees that are responsible for specific other aspects of EGU’s activities, including the ...[Read More]

(Not just) school through play

Jakub Stepanovic May 16, 2025

Geoscience Games at EGU25. Photos by author.

The far-reaching impact of play on learning has been celebrated through the centuries. Be it the work Schola Ludus by John Amos Comenius, Friedrich Schiller’s Spieltrieb, Johan Huizinga’s Homo ludens… or the Geoscience Games sessions during EGU General Assembly, which marked its 8th edition during EGU25. The EGU Geoscience Games sessions were founded by Chris Skinner, Rolf Hut, a ...[Read More]

Beyond the blame game: Bridging Climate science and policy Action

Jakub Stepanovic May 12, 2025

Chris Smith (left), Florian Ulrich Jehn (center), and Alice Wanner (right), presented at EGU25 press conference on Tuesday 29th April.

Findings supporting the urgency of climate change are coming ever-so-fast. Yet, so it seems that various economic, political, and ideological groups are stepping up their denial game. The complexity of the current state was reflected during the EGU25 press conference “Hot takes & policy quakes: When geoscience meets social science.” The speakers, Florian Ulrich Jehn [a], Chris Smit ...[Read More]