Join us for EUMETCAL/CALMet XIII 2019 in Darmstadt, Germany!

17 - 20 September Darmstadt, Germany
Hosted by EUMETSAT

Join the international CALMet/Eumetcal community for four days of sharing best practices in training for the meteorological, hydrologic, and climate workforce. EUMETSAT will host the 13th biennial, in-person gathering. The themes are:

Training challenges and opportunities
- The future roles of personnel providing weather, water, climate and oceanographic services;
- New sources of data, such as satellite, and new sources of decision support, such as enhanced NWP and nowcasting systems, and their impact to the training needs;
- Changing standards, course content and delivery to prepare the workforce for the new service roles;
- Adapting courses and learning to address the WMO qualification and competency requirements;
- Using virtual reality and /or augmented reality in training; 
- Using training to develop and maintain communities of practice.

Teaching and learning
- Best practices in implementing learning and development activities;
- Motivating the learner for now and the future;
- Misconceptions and myths about learning;
- Lessons learnt from evaluation of training programmes;
- Advanced teaching and training techniques;
- Interactive online learning;
- Increasing the long term impacts of training initiatives;
- Improving the connection between initial education and work based training.

Collaboration
- Identifying opportunities for shared education and training;
- Ensuring all countries can prepare their workforces for the changing services through international collaboration and cooperation opportunities.

Please read more about the event at Conference Web Site. The registration is CLOSED. We are looking forward to seeing you in Darmstadt!