Europe’s biggest geoscience conference, EGU26, is just over one month away! Each year, the EGU General Assembly brings together over 19,000 researchers, scientists, academics and journalists to discuss and share the latest developments in planetary exploration, Earth observation, polar science, climate change, natural hazards, and much more. And it is held at the Austria Centre Vienna (ACV) which ...[Read More]
If you are registered for the EGU26 General Assembly (3 – 8 May), you can take part in our annual photo competition. Winners receive free registration to next year’s General Assembly! It’s that time of year again! Yes, today the sixteenth annual EGU photo competition opened for submissions!! Until 8 April, every participant registered for the General Assembly can submit up to three ori ...[Read More]
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]
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]
