The PEEX HeadQuarters in Helsinki, Finland is organizing the Pan-Eurasian EXperiment programme e-conference in April 2026. It will consist of 3 online seminars/sessions which will take place on 1st, 9th and 14th April 2026. The PEEX e-conference will include a series of invited keynote talks; presentations about research and educational projects/ activities from newly and already collaborating Universities/ Organizations; discussions on future collaboration in a frame of climate change, air quality and environmental research as well as research infrastructures; and discussions for the COST Action proposal improvements. Note, that the 3rd seminar/session will take place (on 14 April 2026) in a hybrid (online/onsite) mode as a part of the Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC) Impact Week (https://www.acccflagship.fi/index.php/5th-accc-impact-week-2026), which will take place during 14-17 April 2026 in at the Sofia Cultural Centre in Vuosaari, Helsinki, Finland.

On 1st April, the first online seminar/session (11:00 am – 15:30 pm of Helsinki time) will focus mostly on newly joined Partners/ Organizations and will include talks about research and educational activities in different fields of the Earth’s, climate, environmental, air quality, etc. at the Institute of Ionosphere of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences (IoI KAZ, Kazakhstan); Charles University in Prague (CUNI; Czech Republic); O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv (BNUUEK, Ukraine); Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC, Norway); National Meteorological Administration (NMA, Romania);  Climate, Atmosphere and Water Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (CAWRI-BAS, Bulgaria); Saarland University (UdS, Germany); Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH, Greece); and others.

On 9th April, the second online seminar/session (11:00 am – 17:00 pm of Helsinki time) will focus mostly on already actively working/ collaborating Partners/ Organizations. The series of presentations includes:
Integrated systems and analysis of urban mobility for climate-neutral and sustainable cities in Europe and China;  Meteorological and climatic research at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; Renewable energy – Integrated master program at the Arctic University of Norway; Overview of EC-Earth activities within the PEEX modelling platform; Seamless modelling studies of aerosol-meteorology interactions at the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute; Integrating climate education in agricultural curricula: institutional mission and capacity building; Air quality monitoring using low-cost sensors network in Amman city in Jordan; Digital Sustainable Development goals programme of China; International collaboration: AISUS+ Initiative: AI-empowered climate and air quality system for urban sustainability and climate resilience;  Fast‑track futures: bridging education and work; Persistent low-water phase of major Ukrainian rivers flowing into the northwestern Black Sea under ongoing climate change; Regional scale modelling for Europe: towards climate and air quality modelling convergence; Development and application of atmospheric transport models for assessing radioactively contaminated sites; and others.

On 14th April, the third online seminar/session (10:30-12:00 & 13:00-14:00 of Helsinki time) is co-organized with The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). The seminar will also highlight several major EU Horizon 2020 projects, including, RI-URBANS, CRiceS, FOCI, as well as Erasmus+ educational activities, collaboration with China, and PEEX COST Action proposal. The talks to be delivered include: Building Scientific Capacity in the Global South for Climate Justice;  Eye on Methane: From Measurement to Momentum; Summary of recently completed RI-URBANS project on observational/ measurement activities;  Summary of recently completed CRiceS project on modelling activities;  Summary of ongoing FOCI project; Overview on recent research in China for the PEEX domain; Educational activities in Erasmus+ projects CLUVEX/ UnaVEx/ ClimEd – virtual exchanges as trainings for Climate Messengers, Climate Advocates, Climate Experts; and COST Action “Pan-Eurasian EXperiment – Europe – Near Europe Neighbourhood countries Earth System Research Network” (PEEX-EU-NEN-ReN).

To attend a series of PEEX-e-Conference seminars/sessions, following link you may self-register.
You are also welcome to participate in different events of the 5th ACCC Impact Week, see more  details in the flyer.

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