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-Thermosphere System and their Space Weather
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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. suzy.bingham-at-metoffice.gov.uk, and cc the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., esww2025.loc-at-gmail.com.