The EMS & partners are inviting all conveners and early career scientists to this reception.
A relaxed occasion for meeting with fellow Early Career Scientists, exchange experience with and between convenors and for chatting about career possibilities with people who have chosen different career paths - and just enjoy.

With ECS we mean PhD students and early PostDocs - generally, all who think of themselves as an early career scientist.

Join us for the second EMS Speed Networking for Early Career Scientists!
This fun and fast-paced session will help you make connections and learn from experienced professionals in meteorology, climate, and related fields. Whether you’re interested in job opportunities, learning about possible career paths or advice about professional growth, this event is an excellent opportunity to expand both your knowledge and your network of contacts.

We look forward to "mentors" and "mentorees" joining us from across the atmospheric and climate science field for an engaging afternoon of networking.

Willing to be a mentor? - please see our call for mentors and get touch.

More details on the event will be provided over summer.

Date: Sunday, 6 September 2026, 10:30 – 17:30 CEST
Format: onsite
Addressed to: 20-30 participants
Although the specific target is Early Career Scientists the workshop is open to all.

Registration: Registration for the workshop is required! The fee is 100€.
Please be aware that the booking of this workshop is only available during the registration process for the conference until 3 August! After 3 August, and independent of the conference registration, no bookings will be possible.

Workshop description:
The key objective of this workshop is to grow researchers’ software skills necessary to apply good practices that enable open and reproducible research. The workshop focuses on building modular, reusable, maintainable, sustainable, reproducible, testable, and robust code. This will allow you to more easily organize, maintain and share your data. The participants should be familiar with programming and regularly write code for their research, but no extensive expertise or knowledge of specific tools are required. This workshop is inspired by and based on Carpentry and CodeRefinery training materials.

Who:
All career stages are welcome, but this workshop is particularly suited for early career scientists. It is assumed that participants already write code for their research, but no expertise is required. Some experience in navigating file trees and editing files in a terminal session, as well as basic knowledge of Python programming is recommended.

Where: This training will take place in-person at the conference venue
When: September 6th 2026 10:30 – 17:30 CEST.
Requirements: Participants must have access to a computer with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. Please follow the set-up instruction of both links/lessons:
1) https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/instructor/index.html#setup
2) https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/good-practices-lesson/instructor/index.html#software-setup

Accessibility: We are dedicated to provide a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the conference organization in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.
Contact: Please email or training@esciencecenter.nl for more information.

Syllabus:
- Introduction to version control with Git
- Tracking changes: git add & git commit
- Exploring history, checking out older versions
- Ignoring things with .gitignore files
- Github remotes

- Collaboration with Git and Github
- Creating pull requests
- Review process
- Good practices for collaboration
- Contributing to repositories with forks

- Code Documentation
- In-code documentation
- Readme files
- Writing documentation with sphinx and ReadTheDocs or Github pages

- Modular Code Development
- How can you create blocks of code that can be reused?

- Testing
- Introduction to testing: motivation, unit testing, integration testing
- Writing tests with pytest

Date: Wednesday, 9 September 2026, 11:00 – 13:00 CEST
Format: onsite
Addressed to: 45 participants
This workshop is intended especially for Early Career Scientists but is open to anyone interested.

Registration: Registration for the workshop is required! Participation is free for all registered EMS2026 attendees.
Please be aware that the booking of this workshop is only available during the registration process for the conference until 3 August! After 3 August, and independent of the conference registration, no bookings will be possible.

Description:
Publishing research in scientific journals is one way that researchers build reputation in their community and allow the wide dissemination of their work.  This workshop will go through the structure of the article, introduce best practice tips when writing a paper, highlight the editorial process, and detail the main ethical issues in scientific publishing.
The aim of this interactive workshop, led by the Editors of the Journal of the European Meteorological Society, is to provide tips to prospective authors to improve the quality of their manuscripts and increase their chances of their papers being accepted for publication in reputable, international journals.

Event Details:
• Duration: 1.5 hours
• Organizers:
Dr. Johannes Schmetz, Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of the European Meteorological Society
Dr. Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of the European Meteorological Society
Sandra Broerse, Publisher Climate & Sustainability journals, Elsevier