Welcome to the EMS Annual Meeting 2026

The 2026 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society will take place as a hybrid event at the Jaarbeurs conference centre in Utrecht, The Netherlands & online from 6 to 11 September 2026.

Delta Climate in Europe: weather, water, and warnings

Advancing Atmospheric Science, Water Management, and Societal Preparedness in a Changing European Climate

A programmatic focus of the 2026 Annual Meeting that reflects particular interests and activities of the host institutions will be on the challenges for the broad European meteorological infrastructure posed by climate change: to develop tools for early warnings and societal preparedness in a changing European climate. More

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News & Deadlines

Please note that on Wednesday, 9 September there will be a public transport strike for 24 hours! Not all details are yet officially announced but it must be expected that strike will encompass NS (Dutch National Railways), all city transportation, all regional buslines, DB Cargo, and Prorail (the manager of the rail infrastructure and operational rail traffic control). This means that also international rail traffic can be affected.
Please keep checking for updated train schedules at https://9292.nl/en/.

Session programme and daily highlights

The detailed session programme is online. Once you have logged in with your Copernicus ID, you can put together your own personalized programme, which will then be displayed under "My Programme". Use the session and poster overview or the daily highlights to plan your individual programme.

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Daily highlights

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Links to all oral sessions of the day will appear here and buttons to enter zoom meetings will appear 15 minutes before the start of the session.

Keynote lectures

Keynote lectures will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening.

Tuesday – OSA Keynote by Paolo Ruti on "40 Years of Operational Excellence: EUMETSAT’s Latest Missions (MTG, EPS-SG) and beyond".

Wednesday – ES Keynote by Julie Berckmans on "Upcoming policy initiatives to prepare Europe to become climate resilient".

Thursday – UP Keynote by Friederike Otto on "Uncertain Numbers, Clear Causes: Lessons on uncertainty from 10 years of attributing extreme weather events to climate change".

Aims & Opportunities

The Annual Meetings of the EMS aim to foster the exchange and cross-fertilization of ideas in the meteorological, climatological, and related communities. Facilitating interactions, integration, engagement of science, applications, and actors is our core objective. The session programme highlights these goals and offers many opportunities for enhancing collaboration across the entire weather and climate enterprise (public, private, academic, users, and NGOs) to benefit societies in Europe and worldwide.