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Volume 2025 Number 24 - April 7, 2025
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Dear E-SWAN readers,
As we move into spring 2025, E-SWAN continues to foster collaboration and engagement within the European space weather and space climate community. Our Working Groups and Committees remain active, and preparations for the European Space Weather Week 2025, to be held in Umeå, Sweden, are progressing with great momentum. Abstract submissions and proposals for Topical Discussion Meetings are opening in early April, offering new opportunities for participation.
We also remind our community that the Education and Outreach Committee continues to support initiatives aimed at increasing public awareness and understanding of space weather and climate.
As always, we thank you for your continued support and involvement in the E-SWAN community.
The E-SWAN Newsletter Editorial Board
Topical Issues open for submission
"Space Climate: Solar Extremes, Long-Term Variability, and Impacts on Earth’s System", deadline: 30 September 2025
Topical Editors-in-Chief (T-EiC):
"Fast and slow solar winds: Origin, evolution and Space Weather effects", deadline 31st May 2025
Topical Editors-in-Chief (T-EiC):
"Severe Space Weather Events of May 2024 and Their Impacts", deadline 30 April 2025
Topical Editor-in-Chief (T-EiC):
"Swarm 10-Year Anniversary”, deadline 15 April 2025
Topical Editor-in-Chief (T-EiC):
Georgios Balasis (gbalasis-at-noa.gr), National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece
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Grant for Educational and Outreach Activities on Space Weather and Space Climate by E-SWAN
The E-SWAN EOCom is pleased to invite requests for support in organizing educational and outreach activities on the topics of Space Weather and Space Climate. Please note that the committee evaluates proposals twice a year, in April and October.
For important information and guidance on submitting your proposal, please visit the following link https://eswan.eu/index.php/organs/eocom?id=145
European Space Weather Week 2025 Call for abstract submission and TDM deadline extension (27th - 31st October 2025, Umeå, Sweden)
The abstract submissions (and Live Forecasts proposals) for ESWW 2025 will open on 9th April 2025. The full call information will be published on the ESWW 2025 website.
In addition, the deadline for proposing Topical Discussion Meetings for ESWW 2025 has been extended to 11th April 2025 (see details below).
European Space Weather Week (ESWW) 2025 will be held in Umeå, Sweden from 27th - 31st October in a hybrid format. The overarching theme for ESWW2025 is ‘Technological expansion of the Arctic: the new frontiers of space weather’.
The ESWW conference is an excellent opportunity for people from all over the world to gather and discuss the most recent insights in space weather and space climate, and to address the emerging challenges and impacts. Science, observations, data exploitation, data standards and metadata, service development, operational models, engineering and industrial needs are all important aspects of the field that are addressed.
Important Dates
Opening date (oral+poster abstracts, Live Forecasts proposals) - 9th April 2025
Extended closing date (TDMs) - 11th April 2025
Closing date (oral+poster abstracts, Live Forecasts proposals) - 15th May 2025
A short synopsis of each element is given below. More information will be made available on the ESWW2025 website in due course:
https://esww.eu/
Topical Discussion Meetings (TDMs)
Topical Discussion Meetings are an important component of the European Space Weather Week (ESWW) – a format meant to facilitate engaging debates within the heliospheric, and space weather and space climate communities. These meetings provide the opportunity for interested participants to address key issues in a community forum style that complements the conference sessions. Potential conveners must describe in dedicated fields of the proposal form the target community, the expected outcome of the meeting, and its potential impact. After the selection of the proposed TDMs is made, the proposers will be informed within Q2 of 2025.
Plenary Sessions (New format!)
This year, the ESWW will host four plenary sessions.
* Two plenary sessions will feature distinguished presentations proposed by the convenors of parallel sessions. These plenaries will promote parallel sessions to a broader audience.
* The other two plenary sessions will be dedicated to topics proposed by the community. Topics to be covered may encompass one or more of the following areas: the ESWW2025 theme, “Technological expansion of the Arctic: the new frontiers of space weather”, policy, end-user needs, end-user applications, transversal or inter-domain connections, instrumentation, observations, extension/improvement of ground-based instrumentation, new missions, R2O2R, modelling, data analysis techniques, space climate, or other subjects with broad appeal.
Parallel Sessions
Those interested in contributing an abstract to a parallel session at ESWW2025 may submit to one of the following four formats:
- Parallel Space Weather Research (SWR) session
- Parallel 100% Community-Driven (100CD) session
- Parallel Application Pipeline (APL) session
Open Parallel Session (OPS)
The SWR session topics are:
SWR1 – Solar atmosphere processes as drivers of space weather phenomena
SWR2 – Coronal Mass Ejections, Shock Waves and Energetic Particles
SWR3 – Inner Magnetospheric Dynamics and Coupling Processes
SWR4 – Interactions in the Earth’s
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Therm
Impact
SWR5 – Advancements in Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs):
Simulation, Monitoring, and Mitigation Strategies
SWR6 - Space Climate
Live Forecasts
There is an established tradition at ESWW for a different forecast centre to present a Live Space Weather Forecast, before/after the morning plenary sessions. This provides an excellent opportunity for forecast centres to showcase their expertise and to highlight any communication channels they utilise. The Live Forecast allows attendees to reflect on the real-world impact of space weather and how we, as a community, can enhance our communication of these complex concepts to end-users and to the public.
This year the ESWW Programme Committee (PC) will select four forecast centres. Each day, from Monday 27th to Friday 31st October (excluding Wednesday), one of the centres will present a Live Space Weather Forecast in the main theatre, either in-person or virtually. The forecast is expected to last no more than 5 minutes.
If you are interested in presenting one of the daily forecasts, please send an email to the
Beacon Satellite Symposium 2025 (10 - 14 November 2025, Rome, Italy)
We are pleased to announce that the Beacon Satellite Symposium 2025 will take place in Rome, Italy, from November 10 to November 14, 2025. This symposium, organized by the Beacon Satellite Group of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission G, will bring together leading researchers and experts in ionospheric science from around the world.
The periodic symposia organized by the Beacon Satellite Group provide an exceptional platform for ionospheric scientists to meet, collaborate, and advance their understanding of ionospheric physics and effects on radio propagation. These symposia play a key role in our mission, fostering discussions among experts across various scientific disciplines, research fields, technological applications, and engineering.
Further details about the symposium will be made available on our official website, which is available at https://bss2025.ingv.it/ . Updates will be published regularly as more information becomes available.
We look forward to welcoming you to Rome for what promises to be a valuable and engaging symposium.
UK Space Weather and Space Environment (UKSWSE) III (8-11 September 2025, Sheffield, UK)
Please save the date for the “UK Space Weather and Space Environment (UKSWSE) III” Meeting, taking place 08-11 September 2025 at Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, UK.
This is the third in the series of UKSWSE Meetings with planning around this years’ focus/theme currently underway.
All updates will be made on the website when ready: https://iop.eventsair.com/ukswse2025 - so please watch this space in the next days.
Many thanks in advance and we look forward to seeing you in Sheffield in September 2025 for another energetic and exciting UKSWSE Meeting.
IMPRS PhD Position at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen, Germany / Deadline 1 May 2025
Solar Variability and Climate Group at MPS has an open position to be filled as soon as possible. The successful candidate is expected to start around 1 September 2025 and will work on the project "How strongly does the solar ultraviolet radiation vary? - Understanding the sources of the solar brightness variations in the UV": https://www.mps.mpg.de/phd/
Besides a keen interest in Solar Physics and Solar Variability, applicants must prove a record of academic excellence. They must have, or must be about to obtain, an M.Sc. degree or equivalent in physics, astronomy or a related field, and must document a good command of the English language.
Applicants can register and apply at the online application portal:
https://www.application.mps.
All applications received by 1st of May will receive full consideration, later applications might be considered until the position is filled.
In case of questions, contact
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