Round table on 25 years EMS – 22 January 2025
We start off the new series of Webinars with a very special event: Liz Bentley (EMS President), Tanja Cegnar (Chair of the EMS Committee on Media and Communication, and representative at the founding events of EMS), Arne Spekat (first EMS Executive Secretary) and Dominique Marbouty (EMS Vice-President and also former EMS President 2011 – 2014) will be present in a round table talk on 25 years EMS – chaired and moderated by Ernesto Rodriguez, AME Spain, who was also involved in the very initial steps to build a European community.
Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 4pm (CEST)
Participation: The Webinar will be held as a @Zoom webinar: Register here
25 years EMS – a round table discussion
As follow-up of the panel discussion during the EMS Annual Meeting 2024 to commemorate 25 years EMS, a new on-line event within the EMS Webinar series brings together an distinguished group of panellists who played – and play – a leading role during these 25 years. The discussion will focus on a recollection of memories from the early ideas and initial goals of the EMS promoters, looking at what of this has been achieved to date, to the perspectives for the future and how the EMS will aim to remain relevant and valuable to the European meteorological community in the coming years.
Although the EMS was formally established in 1999 during the 4th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM), the first steps date back to September 1993 during the First ECAM in Oxford, UK, where a meeting of European meteorological societies was arranged with the purpose of becoming mutually acquainted. The successive ECAMs allowed further meetings and discussions of representatives of European meteorological societies until 1998, when a core group from a few national societies met in Leipzig and developed a draft constitution and structure for an association of national meteorological societies. The Leipzig meeting paved the way for the establishment of EMS on 14 September 1999 in Norrköping, Sweden, during the 4th ECAM.
For a short summary on the EMS history and links to 2 publications see EMS History .
All panellists will give an initial 5-minute statement, and will then take questions from the audience.
- Liz Bentley, Royal Meteorological Society in the UK, EMS President
- Dominique Marbouty, Météo et Climat, the French Meteorological Society, EMS Vice-President
- Tanja Cegnar, Slovenian Meteorological Society, Chair of EMS Media and Communication Committee
- Arne Spekat, German Meteorological Society, EMS Executive Secretary 1999 – 2005
To participate in the event register here
If you want to browse the event in Barcelona, find the recording on the EMS2024 website: Opening: 25 years EMS – the past, the present, the future: a panel discussion
Already mark the further Webinar events in your calendar:
- 19 March: EMS pledge & transition to Net Zero (with Liz Bentley, EMS President)
- 23 April: Limits and current situation of weather modification (with J.L. Sánchez-Gómez, Spain)
- 21 May: Croatian meteorology in philately (with Marko Vučetić and Višnjica Vučetić, Croatia)
- 19 Feb & 18 June: still tbd
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