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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]

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]

Join the Life-Work-Balance activities at EGU23!

March 24, 2023
Join the Life-Work-Balance activities at EGU23!

Dear fellow scientists (and readers joining us at EGU23!), It’s us again, the “Life-Work-Balance” group of EGU. We are a team of scientists organizing various events related to life-work-balance during the EGU General Assembly and would like to share our experience with you. For this year’s General Assembly we are organizing several short courses and pop-up events to offer some guidanc ...[Read More]

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

February 3, 2022
Feeling stressed lately? The EGU ECS Working Group ‘Work-Life-Balance’ can help!
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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]