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Feeling stressed lately? The EGU ECS Working Group ‘Work-Life-Balance’ can help!

ECS group: Work-Life Balance February 3, 2022

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The feeling of being ‘a little out of balance’ is probably something we all encounter at some point in our lives. Stress is on the rise, with the constant pressure to ‘do something special and meaningful.’ Coping with this situation can be challenging and there is no magic recipe that fits for all. The good news is we have uncovered a few ingredients you can choose from to ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: A Climate and Ecological Emergency: Can a pandemic help save us…?

Chloe Hill July 28, 2021

Giant Hands, called Support, in a rare snowy event in a floating city of Venice. Credit: Hung Vuong Pham, distributed via Imaggeo

The EGU’s #vEGU21 streamed a wide variety of virtual sessions from Short Courses to Union Symposia. While most #vEGU21 sessions had a specific scientific focus, a few highlighted topics that were of interest to geoscientists across multiple disciplines. The Union Symposia 3: “A Climate and Ecological Emergency: Can a pandemic help save us…?” was one of these sessions with a high level of participa ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: How to achieve policy impact

Chloe Hill March 29, 2021

Last year, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) published their Science for Policy Handbook that provides advice on how to bring science to the attention of policymakers. The Handbook is divided into 19 Chapters covering different areas of science for policy as well as some of the challenges that scientists face when engaging with policy and potential solutions. This month’s GeoPo ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: European Research Council funding opportunities – Your questions answered!

Chloe Hill December 9, 2020

The European Research Council (ERC) is a leading European funding body supporting frontier research, investigator-driven, across all fields of science.The ERC offers various different funding opportunities with grants budgets of €1.5 to €3.5 million for individual scientists with the sole criterion for selection being scientific excellence. In October, the EGU hosted a webinar that highlighted som ...[Read More]