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Questions about accessibility at EGU25? Your guide to attending with children, special access resources and overcoming conference barriers.

March 31, 2025
Questions about accessibility at EGU25? Your guide to attending with children, special access resources and overcoming conference barriers.

The annual EGU General Assembly is a wonderful chance to gather together with friends and colleagues to discuss recent scientific work, plan new projects and develop your career, but a scientific meeting, especially one the size and length of time of the General Assembly is not an equally accessible experience for everyone. With this in mind over the years EGU have developed a range of resources a ...[Read More]

Creating family-friendly conferences in geosciences: a new study needs your help!

June 18, 2024
Creating family-friendly conferences in geosciences: a new study needs your help!
A parent sits with their child in a pushchair beside them during a talk at the EGU General Assembly EGU23. Permission for the photograph given by parent at the time. (Credit: Hazel Gibson, EGU)

Do you think managing a scientific career and having a family is difficult? Would you like to see more family support at conferences? So do we! ‘We’ are Lisa Schielicke, Leonie Esters, and Elena Päffgen from the Meteorological Department of the University of Bonn in Germany. Together, we are working on the project “Family-Friendly Conferences in the Geosciences” to increase ...[Read More]

Mind Your Head: How to have a mindful December and holiday season

December 1, 2023
Mind Your Head: How to have a mindful December and holiday season
The EGU Life-Work-Balance group takes you on the road to a healthy life-work-balance. Behind every curve on this road, new aspects of mindfulness at work await you. (Image Credit: Ökyü Koç)

It’s December and the Life-Work-Balance group is recalling the “Mind Your Head” blog posts, a blogpost series which started in May 2018. We invite you to join our journey through 11 inspiring blog posts and five simple activities to foster our life-work-balance, revive knowledge and find new inspiration during this holiday season. A word at the beginning: perhaps your current life and daily routin ...[Read More]

Support inclusive geosciences by taking this workplace survey today!

May 19, 2023
Support inclusive geosciences by taking this workplace survey today!
Credit: Dan Parsons (from imaggeo.egu.eu)

By Andrea L. Popp, Anouk Beniest, Anita Di Chiara, Derya Gürer, Elenora van Rijsingen, Mengze Li and Simone Pieber. The geoscience community has long been recognized as one of the least diverse scientific fields. However, the extent to which this homogeneity affects workplace climate, particularly for under-represented groups, remains unclear (Berhe et al., 2022; Popp et al., 2019). Documented ins ...[Read More]