05 Feb 2026 - 05 Mar 2026

Online course Foundations of Research Data Management for GIS

hands-on course introduces essential Research Data Management (RDM) practices tailored for GIS workflows in the Earth Systems Sciences community. The course is a mix of short self-paced modules and five weekly one-hour interactive sessions between 5 February and 5 March 2026. 

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09 Feb 2026 - 13 Feb 2026

Love Data Week

Love Data Week is an international week of action focused on research data and  research data management. This year the Conference motto is "Where's the Data?".  Research data management initiatives in German-speaking countries  aim to raise awareness of this important issue through broad participation in Love Data Week. 

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16 Feb 2026 - 18 Feb 2026

IDCC26

20th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference is an established annual event with a unique place in the digital curation community, reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in curating data and providing an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice.

More information can be found Here.

17 Feb 2026 - 19 Feb 2026

CDRmare General Assembly

The CDRmare General Assembly 2026 will be held at the Seminaris Campus Hotel, Berlin. Marine-based Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDRmare) is one research mission of the German Marine Research Alliance (DAM) “Marine carbon sinks in decarbonisation pathways”. A CDRmare Early Career Scientist Workshop is organized just before the General Assembly.

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24 Feb 2026

Celebration of 100 years German Soil Science Society

The German Soil Science Society - a network of individuals and institutions involved in soil science and its diverse fields of application, will celebrate its 100th at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) at Hannover. The programme will provide top-class lectures and musical accompaniment by a quintet from the orchestra of Leibniz University Hannover.‍

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24 Feb 2026 - 25 Feb 2026

RDA Germany Conference 2026

The RDA community in Germany aims to increase data exchange and make data reuse more efficient. It comprises data experts in Germany who are involved in the Research Data Alliance (RDA) or have an interest in the RDA's results who will meet once a year at the GFZ in Potsdam, during which the general meeting of RDA Deutschland e. V. will also be held. 

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25 Feb 2026 - 26 Feb 2026

Second Symposium for Research Infrastructures

The Second RICH Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures (RI) will provide an opportunity to promote synergies among RIs and relevant stakeholders; to showcase successful models of collaboration, partnerships, and clusters; to encourage the involvement of RIs in other parts of Horizon Europe; to assess and analyse cooperation between RIs and other European programmes; to promote interoperability and data sharing; to facilitate dialogue among stakeholders; and to support capacity building.

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01 Mar 2026 - 05 Mar 2026

86th DGG Annual Meeting

he German Geophysical Society (DGG) built itself as a forum for discussions on all topics of geophysics. The established thematic areas will be enriched with four new key topics, which have a special relevance to geophysical research. ‍

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04 Mar 2026 - 06 Mar 2026

Hydrology Day 2026

The 2026 Hydrology Day of the German Hydrological Society  will be held at the University of Kassel on water resources under pressure - the impact of global change on water availability and water qualityis dedicated to the improvement of the resilience of the landscape water balance, taking into account the combined effects of climate and land-use change.

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10 Mar 2026 - 13 Mar 2026

FH-DGGV Conference

The Hydrogeology Section in the German Geological Society - Geological Association (FH-DGGV) is organizing its 30th Groundwater and water security in transition Conference. The goal of the conference is exchange of information about groundwater and the water balance in times of change and a secure water supply. 

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16 Mar 2026 - 20 Mar 2026

EPOS Days 2026

The 2026 edition of the the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) Days, the annual gathering bringing together the EPOS community and its closest partners. EPOS is a multidisciplinary, distributed research infrastructure that facilitates the integrated use of data, data products, and facilities from the solid Earth science community in Europe.

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25 Mar 2026 - 28 Mar 2026

FOSSGIS 2026

The FOSSGIS conference is among the leading conferences for Free and Open Source Software for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as well as for the topics of Open Data and OpenStreetMap.This is where users, developers, researchers, and interested parties meet to exchange ideas about application, work, and further development opportunities, as well as the latest developments in this field.

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25 Mar 2026 - 27 Mar 2026

46th Scientific & Technical Annual Conference of DGPF

The Conference is organized by Department of Remote Sensing and Image Analysis, Technical University of Darmstadt and will be preceded by an event of the junior network of the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation (DGPF) on 25 March 2026, and a summer school on 23 & 24 March 2026. ‍

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28 Apr 2026 - 30 Apr 2026

HMC Conference 2026

The Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) Conference will take place for the fifth time at DKFZ Heidelbergfirst as an in-person event, with special emphasis on personal exchange, strengthening the community, and laying the groundwork for a conference that will grow in impact in the years to come. The HMC Conference 2026 offers a dynamic platform for professionals from all disciplines to come together and shape the future of metadata management. 

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03 May 2026 - 08 May 2026

EGU General Assembly 2026

The EGU General Assembly 2026 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.

The abstract submission deadline is 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET.

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08 Jun 2026 - 12 Jun 2026

TNC26

TNC, the largest and most prestigious research and education networking conference. TNC offers a variety of ways for participants to network, collaborate, and connect.

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16 Jun 2026 - 19 Jun 2026

AGILE 2026

The Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) has held annual conferences focused on Geographic Information Science since 1998. The conference theme “Smart Data: Making geospatial data actionable” stresses the need to transform vast amounts of geospatial information into useful knowledge that can drive decision-making and solve real-world problems effectively.

Full paper submission deadline: 5 January 2026

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12 Jul 2026 - 17 Jul 2026

Goldschmidt 2026

Goldschmidt is the foremost annual, international conference on geochemistry and related subjects, organized by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry.

Abstract submission is open until 26 February 2026.

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