EERIE General Assembly 2026

9 Mar 2026, 09:00 → 13 Mar 2026, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

The event will take place in person in Barcelona at the BSC-CNS for a whole week (Monday mid-day until Friday mid-day):

Monday morning is reserved for arrival and Friday afternoon for potential side-meetings as well as departure.

Since the BSC-CNS building is not public, you need to register and (re-)claim your badge whenever you enter the building again.

Please note:

All plenary sessions will be recorded.

For the breakout groups (BOGs): in case of high interest, we foresee parallel BOGs for the same topic to reduce the individual group size. If you are interested in hosting a breakout group, please get in touch.

WiFi at BSC-CNS:

• eduROAM is available
• for all others, there is a WiFi code on the badge

 

Funding acknowledgment:

This event is part of the EERIE project funded by the European Union. Views and opinions  expressed are however those of the participants only and do not necessarily reflect those of the  European Union or the European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA).  Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. 

This event has received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and  Innovation (SERI) under contract #22.00366. 

This event was funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon  Europe funding guarantee (grant numbers 10057890, 10049639, 10040510, 10040984). 

 

Monday 9 March

12:00 → 13:30 Registration and Welcome Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Plenary: Welcoming words from the host & update from the coordinator

Chairs: Pablo Ortega & Thomas Jung

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 16:45 Plenary: Updates from modelling & data centres with joint discussion

Chair:

16:45 → 17:00 Health break

17:00 → 18:00 Plenary: Planning the week ahead

Chair: Thomas Jung

18:00 → 20:00 Ice-breaker and networking dinner

Tuesday 10 March

08:30 → 09:00 Welcome and Coffee

09:00 → 09:30 Plenary: Welcome back and plan for the day

Chair:

09:30 → 10:30 Plenary: Invited talk with joint discussion

Chair:

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Plenary: Introduction of the break-out groups (BOGs)

Chair:
Each break-out group will be introduced with its own specific objective.

12:00 → 13:15 Lunch break in canteen (own costs)

joint walk back and forth to UPC canteen

13:15 → 14:15 Breakout groups

tbd

14:15 → 15:15 Coffee break with poster session

15:15 → 16:15 Breakout groups

tbd

16:15 → 16:30 Health break

16:30 → 17:15 Plenary: Reporting back from Breakout groups & joint wrap-up

Chair:
5 min per breakout group, 15 minutes discussion, 15 minutes earmarked for open issues

17:15 → 17:30 Group photo

17:30 → 18:15 Joint travel by public transport to the restaurant

18:15 → 20:15 Joint working dinner with invited talk

Chair:

Wednesday 11 March

08:30 → 09:00 Welcome and Coffee

09:00 → 09:15 Plenary: Directions for the day & project update

Chair: Thomas Jung & EERIE Project Office
- Introduction of breakout group topics (current status)
- General status quo of the project

09:15 → 09:45 Plenary: Scientific talks

Chair:

09:45 → 10:45 Coffee break and poster session

10:45 → 12:00 Breakout groups

tbd

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break in canteen (own costs)

meeting point: registration desk
joint walk back and forth to UPC canteen

13:30 → 14:45 Breakout groups

tbd

14:45 → 15:30 Coffee break with networking & discussion of joint publications

15:30 → 16:00 Joint work on the EERIE impact tracker

Please complete the Impact Tracker, Zenodo and GitHub - for questions, the PREDICTIA Team, the EERIE Project Office, Nikolay Koldunov, Fabian Wachsmann, and Malcolm Roberts will be available.

16:00 → 17:00 Plenary: Report of all breakout groups to the plenary (with discussion)

Chair:
5 min per breakout group, 15 minutes discussion, 15 minutes earmarked for open issues

17:00 → 17:15 Plenary: Wrap up & outlook for tomorrow

Chair:

17:15 → 18:00 Health break and networking possibilities

18:00 → 20:00 Open Plenary: Stakeholder event on Storylines

18:00 → 20:00 Timeslot for optional side meetings

Thursday 12 March

08:30 → 09:00 Welcome and Coffee

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary: Invited presentations

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 WP Meetings

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch break in canteen (own costs)

meeting point: registration desk
joint walk back and forth to UPC canteen

13:45 → 14:30 Plenary: Report of WP Meetings with discussion

Chair:

14:30 → 15:30 Parallel sessions

Separate invitation: GB Meeting; Chair: Thomas Jung
Follow-up discussion of stakeholder meeting on storylines (hosted by different participants in separate groups - specific focus for each group)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Plenary: Reporting back by Storyline groups

Chair:
10 min per group and 10 min joint discussion

16:30 → 17:15 Plenary: Reporting back from the GB Meeting - guidance for the remaining time and discussion

Chairs: Thomas Jung, Malcolm Roberts & Pier Luigi Vidale
10 min reporting back, 10 min vision, 10 min joint discussion

17:15 → 19:00 Possible time-slot for WP meetings if needed & self-organised evening programme

suggested locations to be discussed

Friday 13 March

08:30 → 09:00 Welcome and Coffee

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary: Revisiting results & Wrap-up

Chair:

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary: Awards & Closure of the assembly

Chair: