hybrid conference

My reflections of EGU’s evolving General Assembly over the years

Charles J R Williams July 7, 2023

Poster Hall at the EGU 2018 General Assembly at the Austria Center Vienna (Credit: EGU/Keri McNamara)

The wind, funnelled downwards by the surrounding skyscrapers, whipped along Wagramer Strasse, as early morning traffic thundered by. Past the Orthodox Church and then slightly uphill to the Kaisermühlen VIC underground station, where a stream of one-way traffic was already in full force, everybody proudly displaying their blue lanyards and most carrying the large black poster tubes that are so in ...[Read More]

How to EGU23: The EGU Code of Conduct

Gillian D'Souza April 12, 2023

Can you hear that? That’s the countdown to Europe’s largest geoscience conference – now a little over a week away! EGU’s General Assembly #EGU23 is taking place between 23 and 28 April 2023, both onsite in Vienna and virtually. As we ready our calendars to make the most of the conference week, we’d like to remind our community that EGU is strongly committed to the pri ...[Read More]

EGU23: A hybrid General Assembly with too many benefits to ignore!

Gillian D'Souza March 10, 2023

Are you planning to attend the upcoming EGU General Assembly – either on-site in Vienna, Austria or remotely as a virtual participant? This year, EGU has decided to take time for science, and encourages you to do the same. For us, this means offering our attendees the “best of both worlds,” through a carefully and creatively curated hybrid conference. For you, we hope this means a ton of benefits ...[Read More]

EGU22: Rethinking (geo)scientific conferences today

Fabio Crameri June 1, 2022

From aiming at globally distributed, but virtually connected conference hubs to live subtitles and translations: never has the scientific conference format been on a trajectory of such abrupt change. What the new format of the coming years will be is still unclear, but it will need fewer chairs and more bandwidth, and should be sensibly ‘green’ and super accessible, suggests Fabio Crameri. Even th ...[Read More]