Side events
The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will bring together a growing, and increasingly diverse, community of Earth system scientists, partners, and stakeholders. It will be an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in Earth system and coupled modelling, leverage the wealth of the CMIP6 analyses and explore the updated forcings and early results from CMIP7 simulations, including new experimental designs and MIPs. It will also highlight the expanding observation-modelling interface, address strategies for streamlining the climate information chain, and forge a vision and global partnerships to deliver sustained and high-quality climate information to all users. The workshop will also provide ample opportunities for networking, collaboration, and knowledge exchange, fostering new partnerships with the CMIP community. In addition, there will be an Early-Career Scientist hackathon, designed and developed by our Fresh Eyes on CMIP community.
The call for side session proposals has now closed. We are now busy reviewing the side session proposals and will contact conveners with decisions as soon as possible.
Side Session formats
Workshop side sessions can be up to 60 minutes long and may be in-person only or hybrid.
In this call there are four session formats available:
- Townhalls: Townhall meetings offer an active discussion platform that is open to all interested conference participants. At townhall meetings, information is shared on new initiatives or opportunities of interest to a wide range of disciplines. This is often followed by an open discussion on the matter raised.
- Panel discussions: Panel discussions bring together a panel of experts offering diverse perspectives on a specific topic or theme. This involves some structured discussion on questions from a moderator plus time for audience questions to the panel.
- World cafés: World Cafes make use of an informal ‘cafe-like’ setting for participants to explore an issue by discussing it in small table groups. Discussion is held in multiple rounds with participants moving between tables for different rounds. This is intended to allow for more relaxed and open conversations to take place.
- Training session/learning lab: Training sessions offer a chance to demonstrate a tool or application with interested conference attendees.
If you have an idea for an alternative session format, please contact the CMIP IPO and we can discuss this with you.
Guidelines for side session conveners
Before submitting your proposal please review the following guidelines:
- Convener teams should follow the WCRP diversity and inclusivity principles, ensuring sufficient diversity across across scientific disciplines, career stage, geography and gender of both the convener team and presenters.
- When submitting a side session proposal, keep in mind that a convener team must consist of a minimum of two co-conveners and a maximum of five co-conveners per session. We ask that at least one convener plans to attend the workshop in-person.
- The member of the convener team who submits a session proposal agrees to become the point of contact for the session for session-specific communication with authors and conference organisers. Changes to the point of contact and/or additional points of contact can be appointed at a later stage.
- If similar sessions are proposed, the Scientific Organising Committee may request for you to merge the sessions.
- All convener teams must align with the WCRP Code of Conduct.
- Respect the session submission deadline. Last-minute submissions make it challenging for our organising committee.
- Proposals will be reviewed by the Scientific Organising Committee, and session conveners will be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.
Workshop themes and subthemes
Questions about CMIP 2026? Please contact us at cmip-ipo@esa.int