EMS News : European Meteorological Society

06/11/2025

Technology Achievement Award 2026 submission

.. is now open. We invite all Members to make nominations for the EMS Technology Achievement Award 2026, as well as individuals, organisations, projects to submit self-nominations for the award.
Optional deadline for short proposals: 10 December 2025
Final Deadline for submission of full proposal: 31 January 2026[more]

06/11/2025

Panel discussion on academic careers in Europe

Did you miss the exciting panel discussion on 5 November? The recording is available on the EMS YouTube channel The four panelists gave were interesting and sometimes surprising insights into their experiences and recommendations. Worth watching for – not only – early career scientists thinking about their future paths.[more]

28/10/2025

Listening to the Forest: AI-Driven Meteo-Acoustic Early Warning System for Wildfire Detection: Harry Otten Prize 2025

The Harry Otten Prize for Innovation in Meteorology has been awarded for the seventh time. During the Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society in Ljubljana, the jury announced that Assaf Shmuel (Weizmann Institute of Science) has won the first prize of 25,000 Euro.[more]

28/10/2025

Highlights of the EMS2025 in Ljubljana

The EMS2025 in Ljubljana was a wonderful event with many opportunities to meet new people, get fresh ideas, discuss, and enjoy the lovely city of Ljubljana. The meeting was attended by more than 700 participants from 49 countries. 300 people attended an EMS Annual Meeting for the first time![more]

19/09/2025

EMS2025 – recordings of presentations are now available

This year, we have again asked authors at the EMS Annual Meeting if they would like their oral presentations recorded and made available publicly. The response was very positive, with more than 300 authors agreeing[more]

Johannes Schmetz (left) and Gert-Jan Steeneveld, co-Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of the European Meteorological Society (JEMS) at the Meet-the-Editors event at EMS2025 in Ljubljana (phot: EMS/Martina Junge)

17/09/2025

News from the Journal of the EMS – JEMS

Report by the Editors-in-Chief on recent events: During the EMS2025 in Ljubljana we had two major events for the Journal of the EMS: We held the 7th meeting of the Editorial Board (EB) and had good discussions triggered new ideas. And we enjoyed a busy Meet-the-Editors event during the poster session where we informed about the journal.[more]

16/09/2025

The EMS2025 in Ljubljana – impressions

A big Thank You to all for attending the hybrid EMS Annual Meeting 2025. Whether you participated in person in Ljubljana or online, we hope your expectations were met and the conference was interesting and will result in many new collaborations and projects.[more]

12/09/2025

Outstanding Poster Award EMS2025

The EMS 2025 outstanding poster award winner is Csilla Ilyés-Vincze, with a poster presenting the work by her and her colleagues: Adrienn Varga-Balogh, Ádám Leelőssy and Róbert Mészáros from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University,[more]

01/09/2025

Free live stream of EMS2025 Opening & Keynotes

Last preparations for the EMS2025 are currently ongoing. We are already looking forward to welcoming you in Ljubljana in a few days. We expect some 650 presentations this year. The hosts and organisers have prepared many side events, workshops and excursions, Browse the session programme, have a look on the event overview and create your personal programme now.[more]

17/08/2025

Tromp Foundation Awardees – highlighted

In this video the awardees of the Tromp Foundation travel award for young scientists (TFTAYS) and the winner of the EMS Tromp Award for an outstanding achievement in biometeorology are highlighted, all summarising shortly their work they present at the EMS2025 in Ljubljana (7-12 September 2025).[more]