The panellists will be announced in spring 2026.

At this event we will honour our 2026 Awardees. The following awards will be presented to the selected recipients:

▪ EMS Young Scientist Conference Awards
▪ EMS Outstanding Poster Award 2025
▪ EMS Young Scientist Award 2025 and 2026
▪ Tromp Foundation Travel Awards for young scientists
▪ EMS Tromp Award for an outstanding achievement in biometeorology
▪ EMS Technology Achievement Award
▪ Three EMS Media Award: Journalistic Award, Outreach & Communication Award, Communicating Weather & Climate Award
▪ EMS Silver Medal : the ceremony for the Silver Medallist Markus Repnik will include a laudation by Florence Rabier, and the Silver Medal Lecture "Innovating ways to support developing countries in closing their basic weather and climate data gaps".

The session will close with an announcement and news about the 2027 Harry Otten Prize for innovation in meteorology.

The Sergej Zilitinkevich Memorial Award will be handed over in session UP2.1 Cities and urban areas in the earth-atmosphere system.

The strategic lecture will be announced at a later date.

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.