On 25 October, The European Commission published a Staff Working Document that aims to help Member States build capacity to use scientific knowledge more effectively in their policymaking processes. This month’s GeoPolicy Blog post provides a summary of the Staff Working Document that outlines key science for policy challenges and the EU instruments, resources and policy frameworks that can help M ...[Read More]
It’s October and that means that once again it’s time for Earth Science Week – a week long celebration of all things Earth Science, initiated by the American Geosciences Institute! To learn more about this history of Earth Science Week check out our previous blog post, but this year the theme is ‘Earth Science for a Sustainable World‘, so today we wanted to share some ...[Read More]
EGU’s Science for Policy Working Group aims to promote greater collaboration between the geoscientific community and policymakers, highlight policy-relevant outputs from EGU scientists, and support evidence-based policy. Not only does the Working Group support EGU’s policy activities but it also provides individual members with relevant information and opportunities through the EGUR ...[Read More]
This month’s GeoPolicy Blog post features the Competence Framework ‘Science for Policy’ for researchers developed by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). This newly developed framework introduces the different competences scientists can collectively build to increase their policy impact, and how it can be used by research institutions and organisations. Throughout this post, ...[Read More]
Now that our panel of judges has reduced the long list of hundreds of entries to just the top 10, it’s up to you to decide on which three photos will be our winners for 2022! The finalist photos are listed below and you can vote for them from Monday 23 May until Thursday, 26 May 2022 (voting closes at 18:00 CEST, 26 May). There are two ways that you can vote – the first is on-site in V ...[Read More]
This year’s Photo Competition judging panel did a fantastic job of narrowing down the outstanding photo submissions to the EGU’s Photo Competition to just 10 finalists! The finalist photos are listed below and on the Imaggeo website where you can vote for them from Monday 23 May until Thursday, 26 May 2022 – voting closes at 18:00 CEST. The three photos with the most votes will be ann ...[Read More]
Note: Spoilers Ahead! If you haven’t already seen it, go and watch Don’t Look Up – and then come back to this blog to find out what the scientists in the film could have done to better connect and communicate with the policymakers involved! Don’t Look Up gives us a terrifying example of what could happen when policymakers ignore the science. The film tells the story of two astronomers, PhD candida ...[Read More]
2021 was yet another year of uncertainty, with many changes and disruptions to our plans, activities, and goals. EGU’s science for policy programme was no exception to this with the Science for Policy Pairing Scheme and annual Science for Policy Event taking a back seat. We hope that 2022 will not only bring new activities but also rekindle those that were put on hold as a result of the pandemic. ...[Read More]
Have you ever wanted to set up your own science podcast? I have been running the Geology Bites podcast now for almost a year and I have often been asked what it takes to set up your own podcast. Here are some of my top tips on what’s involved, the challenges I faced, and how I overcame them. Choose your podcast topic. If there’s one essential step, it’s that you choose a topic you’re fascinated b ...[Read More]
For the vEGU21 General Assembly, the EGU Education & Outreach Committees tried something new. They connected school teacher, Hélder Pereira, with seismologist, Susana Custódio, to create and teach a lesson plan on a topic relevant to Hélder’s classroom curriculum: the origin of the South American volcanic gaps. The lesson was live streamed online from Hélder’s class in Algarve, Por ...[Read More]