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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.

Winter landscape in Granö. Photo: Patrick Trägårdh / Visit Umeå Content Bank