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Mountain Commons at the 24th Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2026 – Call for Abstracts
Mountain regions are facing many challenges related to their environmental and sociopolitical contexts – from reduced agricultural production to natural hazards or difficulty of access. Collective action and commons are ways to cope with these challenges. The Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research (CIRM), the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) and the Forum Landscape, Alps, Parks (FoLAP) are organising a session on this topic at the 24th Swiss Geoscience Meeting (20 and 21 November 2026, Fribourg). They invite scientists from geosciences and other disciplines to an interdisciplinary exchange around the mountain commons and their multiple characteristics and management challenges in the 21st century.
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StuMeTa 2026
StuMeTa (Studentische Meteorologie-Tagung) is an annual meeting of meteorology students from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, dedicated to knowledge exchange and networking.
Call for nomination: Swiss NC IUGG Early Career Prize of interdisciplinary research
The Swiss NC IUGG Early Career Prize is awarded every year to a recent graduate or PhD researcher in Switzerland for research displaying a strong multi-disciplinary component covering aspects of two or more disciplines represented by the scientific associations of the IUGG (i.e., IACS cryosphere, IAG geodesy, IAGA geomagnetism and aeronomy, IAHS hydrology, IAMAS meteorology and atmospheric sciences, IAPSO oceanography, IAVCEI volcanology).
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A2P at Meteomatics
Last Friday, 14 students, mainly from the University of Bern and ETH Zurich, visited Meteomatics in St. Gallen as part of the "Academia Meets Practice (A2P)" event. Over the course of a roughly four‑hour afternoon, we gained a varied and exciting insight into the wide range of activities Meteomatics is involved in.
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WMO: Invest in Resilience as Climate Risks Intensify
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has officially launched a new financing mechanism to safeguard the critical weather forecasting backbone, which underpins trillions of dollars in economic value and supports global stability.
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