We encourage submissions addressing the following key themes and sharing of lessons from successes and failures:
💡 Early warning and anticipatory action
💡 Impact-based approaches
💡 Technological innovations
💡 Risk communication and community engagement
💡 Data integration and system interoperability

This session invites contributions from a wide range of disciplines and sectors involved with the full spectrum of EWS development and implementation, including but not limited to natural hazards science, atmospheric and hydrologic research, social sciences, and disaster management practice.

This session is convened together with Timothy Tiggeloven, Md. Rezuanul Islam Fahim, Samira Pfeiffer, and @drrobertsakic.bsky.social

Citation:
Schlumberger J, De Polt K, Claassen JN et al. Empowering ECRs to make research projects flourish: lessons from a European research project [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Open Res Europe 2025, 5:312 (doi.org/10.12688/ope...)

A huge shout out to our co-authors Judith Claassen, Timothy Tiggeloven, Sophie Buijs, @marleenderuiter.bsky.social, Maria Vittoria Gargiulo, Joel Gill, Núria Pantaleoni Reluy, @drrobertsakic.bsky.social, and @philipward.bsky.social for their insights and support that made this work possible!

Achieved through involvement of ECRs in project management, organization of events, and initiatives to foster networks. Three key enabling factors for creating an empowering environment were identified, aiming to encourage projects and funding institutions to further build on these practices.

Co-led by Julius Schlumberger and myself, this perspective examines how the EU Horizon 2020 project MYRIAD-EU integrated Early Career Researcher (ECR) empowerment into its framework.

💡We particularly would like to highlight the Special Technical Session: “Innovative Frontiers in Multi(-Hazard)-risk Assessment and Disaster Risk Management”, led by Timothy Tiggeloven, co-convened together with @dmferrario.bsky.social, Michele Ronco, and Silvia Torresan.

Many thanks also to supervisors, collaborators, and colleagues who supported and contributed to this work:
René Orth (@hydrorth-lab.bsky.social), @philipward.bsky.social, @marleenderuiter.bsky.social, Markus Reichstein, Dorothea Frank, Ekaterina Bogdanovich

Related manuscripts:
Quantifying impact-relevant heatwave durations: doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Official heat warnings miss situations with a detectable societal heat response in European countries: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...