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Apply to the ESWW2025 Space Weather Training Course in Kiruna

Update 17 July - All notifications have been sent out on Tuesday 15 July. Further information about funding outcomes and registration will be provided in early August. If you did not received an email, please look into your spam folder. 

Eligibility and Application

The training course is suitable for undergraduate, master and PhD students and early career professionals in the space weather domain. We also welcome applications from teachers, journalists, managers, companies or similar that want to learn about space weather and its impacts. Participation to the training course comes with the condition to also register for the ESWW conference the week after. 

Applications will open 3 June 2025, and end on July 7, 23:59 CET. To apply please, use this application link. You will be asked why you would like to participate in the training course, what your relevant experience is and how the training course can help you in your career. 

After the deadline, all applications will be reviewed by the organizers by July 15, taking DE&I considerations into account. All applicants will be informed of the result of the selection and selected candidates can then register for the training course at the same time as they register for the conference. 

Registration and Fee

We expect the registration fee for the training course to be between 2000 and 2500 SEK (Swedish Kroner). This fee will cover tuition, accommodation, some meals, and travel to Umeå on Sunday. 

Up to 8 participants can receive a registration fee waiver for the training course, of which 4 can receive travel funding if eligible. Applicants will need to substantiate their need of funding in the application form. There are two funding options:

• E-SWAN funding to waive the registration fee for the training course
• ESA Academy funding for citizens of an ESA Member State, Associate Member, or Canada (more info)

Students will be selected and ranked according to their motivation and CV. The organisers will distribute the funding based on this ranking.

As participation to the conference afterwards is mandatory, we also offer the participants that receive E-SWAN sponsorship the option to volunteer to help with the organisational aspects of the conference itself. In return for 2,5 days of volunteer work in Umeå, these students will be allowed participation in the entire conference including the welcome reception, music night, dinner, and fair cost free. These volunteers will also be offered cheap accommodation in the form of shared rooms at a price around 2100 SEK for the full week. 

Note that this offer to volunteer will in a first stage only be open to participants receiving E-SWAN sponsorship to the training course and to Swedish students. In case not all spots are filled after these calls, the offer will be published on the website and will be open to all participants.

Participants that receive E-SWAN funding for the training course are not eligible to receive any other funding for the ESWW conference (except when volunteering).

Registration to the conference should only be done AFTER you receive a reply to funding your participation in the training course. Once you have registered and payed for the conference, we can not refund the conference fee.

Contact 

You can reach us at esww2025[dot]loc[at]gmail[dot]com, with subject SWx training Kiruna. 

Are you also interested to sponsor the European Space Weather Week 2025? 

Book a Sponsor booth 

or contact us directly at esww2025.loc[at]gmail.com

Organized with the support and partnership of:  

                                                       "A Marcus Wallenberg symposium"

A light dinner will be served at the fair. We offer one drink. The bar is open for other consumptions.

The detailed program is available here

Guidelines for oral or poster presentations are online.

Info on the digital platform and ESWW2025 app is online.

Vote for the questions (through the app or digital platform) you would like to be discussed in the "Future of Space Weather in Europe" (Wed 29 Oct). 

Welcome to Umeå

In 2025, the European Space Weather Week will take place in Umeå, Sweden from October 27 to 31. The ESWW is the main annual event in the European Space Weather and Space Climate calendar. It is an international meeting organised annually within the European Region in collaboration with prominent members of the European space weather and Space Climate community. It began as a forum for the European Space Weather community and has since grown into an international event with global attendance. 

ESWW2025 will again adopt the central aim of bringing together the diverse groups in Europe working on different aspects of Space Weather and Space Climate: such as scientists, engineers, satellite operators, power grid technicians, communication and navigation specialists, people working in aviation, space weather service providers, STEM* practitioners. The ESWW is highly interdisciplinary by nature and actively promotes investigation of new technologies and approaches e.g. machine learning in a space weather context.

ESWW also welcomes space weather end users. End users constitute any group/organisation making use of space weather data and services. Fields include but are not limited to spacecraft operation, spacecraft design, space and ground based telecoms and navigation services, power distribution, pipeline operation, aviation safety, railway operators, insurance companies, civil contingency planning, and scientists.

ESWW is an excellent place to meet people, to exchange knowledge and ideas, to discuss the latest on solar activity, how space weather influences the earth environment on the short and on the long term and our technologies, and how to deal with space weather.

*STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Theme 

This year’s overall theme for the ESWW is “Technological expansion of the Arctic: the new frontiers of space weather”, bringing the spotlight to recent development and progress in the field while focussing on the very region where we will gather for the conference.

The overall theme is present throughout the program of ESWW2025 and is visually represented by the official ESWW2025 design.

Aurora/Northern lights over Umeå. Photo: Fredrik Larsson / Visit Umeå Content Bank

Organizers

Organized with the support and partnership of:  

                                                       "A Marcus Wallenberg symposium"