The ENVRI community is delighted to announce its participation in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2026, which will take place in Vienna from 3 to 8 May 2026.
The EGU General Assembly 2026 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early-career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.
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Explore Relevant Sessions and Submit Your Abstracts
The ENVRI community is excited to support and promote several key sessions that highlight the role of RIs in advancing environmental science:
Submit abstracts to our sessions! Deadline 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET
ITS1.20/ESSI4.3 – ESSENTIAL VARIABLES FOR GLOBAL COOPERATION AND INTEROPERABILITY
Convener: Anca Hienola | Co-conveners: Jacco Konijn, Marta Gutierrez, Matti Heikkurinen, Federico Drago
The proliferation of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs), and Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) highlights a paradigm shift towards data-driven environmental monitoring and policy. These Essential Variables (EVs) are central to global frameworks including GCOS, WMO, GEO, Copernicus, IPCC assessments, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For science, they are a powerful mechanism to track Earth system changes and enable evidence-based decision-making.
Yet, despite broad recognition, the scientific potential of EVs remains underrealised. Persistent gaps in how they are defined, described, managed, and exchanged across domains and infrastructures hamper progress. A lack of semantic and technical interoperability, inconsistent metadata practices, and fragmented governance limit their integration and reduce their impact on policy and action. Without a coherent, interoperable infrastructure, the transformative potential of EVs—to enable cross-domain science, support climate agreements, and monitor sustainability targets—remains out of reach.
This session will explore the technical, infrastructural, and policy advancements required to make EVs the foundational language for global environmental cooperation. We welcome contributions addressing scientific use cases, technical barriers, and emerging solutions under the following themes:
1. Semantic Interoperability: Shared frameworks and vocabularies (e.g., iADOPT, W3C SSN/SOSA) ensuring EVs form a consistent, machine-actionable common language across disciplines and infrastructures.
2. Cross-Domain Data Synergy: Approaches and case studies demonstrating seamless data flow and integration across atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial, biodiversity, and socio-economic domains, breaking down silos.
3. Infrastructure Integration: Lessons from research infrastructures (e.g., ENVRI, AuScope, US CRDCs, China’s Earth Lab, GERI) in implementing EVs and achieving interoperability with global programmes like GCOS, WMO, GEO, Copernicus, RDA, and CODATA.
4. From Data to Policy: Examples of how FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) EVs contribute to policy needs, climate reporting, and monitoring of SDG indicators.
We invite scientists, data architects, and policymakers to share insights for building a coherent, actionable, and interoperable global observation system.
Short Courses
SC2.18 – HARNESSING THE ENVRI-HUB: DATA, TOOLS, AND SERVICES FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCHENVRINNOV INNOVATION THROUGH COLLABORATION TRAINING
Earth and environmental sciences thrive on data diversity: from ocean temperatures to biodiversity records, from climate indicators to geological observations. Yet, this very diversity can also be a barrier: different datasets are described with different standards, stored in different formats, and are difficult to connect across research infrastructures. The ENVRI-Hub provides a set of tools to overcome these challenges. It offers researchers a unified framework to discover, access, and reuse complex and multidisciplinary data.
This short course will give researchers a practical introduction to how ENVRI-Hub workflows can directly support their own projects, to build more reproducible and impactful science.
How You Can Participate
We invite all ENVRI RIs and supporting projects to:
- Submit abstracts to our sessions! Deadline 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET
- Join the ENVRI-Hub NEXT Short Course
We look forward to seeing you at EGU26, as we highlight the collective strength and impact of the ENVRI community in advancing environmental research!