Status and development of the demographics of EGU General Assemblies’ presenters and EGU awardees

The EGU recognises the importance of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)
 as a crucial foundation for scientific research. Since it’s foundation in 2021, the EGU EDI Committee has implemented a range of EDI initiatives to remove financial barriers to inclusivity and supported the geoscience community at large to create events and tools that promote equality and diversity within the EGU, in collaborations with members, grass-root networks and sibling geoscience organisations.
The EDI Committee’s priorities are to:

• raise awareness of the value of EDI within the geoscience community;
• provide constructive suggestions and ideas to the EGU Council that promote EDI within the organisation, and the geoscience ecosystem and;
• organise sessions, webinars, networking events and focussed workshops dedicated to EDI issues either as part of the EGU General Assembly, or other international conferences and meetings.

In recent years, two landmark achievements for EDI@EGU are (1) the Champion(s) for 
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award that recognises the excellent contributions of individuals or teams developing initiatives that put the principles of EDI into practice and (2) a new EDI Participation Support Scheme created to reduce the financial barriers to inclusion and participation at the EGU General Assemblies.


The visibility of research and scientists is essential for the spread of ideas, knowledge and new results in addition to creating countless opportunities to consolidate collaborations and grow new networks. Presenting or convening at conferences can therefore further your career. Another highlight for a scientific career can involve your work and contributions being recognised by peers and nominated for a scientific award. Geoscientists that receive awards and medals are often considered role models in their fields. The EGU curates a diverse portfolio of geoscience awards to which suitable candidates can be nominated https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/. Previous research on academic awards has shown that men are nominated more often than women, but is this true for the EGU awards as well?

In this presentation we will show how the distribution of presenters and participants at the EGU General Assemblies has evolved since 2015 using demographic data related to gender, age and geographical affiliation. In addition, we will present the gender distribution of nominations and award winners for EGU awards and medals from 2023 to 2026.