From 28-30 October 2025, the 2025 EUMETSAT Climate Symposium took place in Darmstadt, Germany under the theme “From Space to Climate Services: Co-creation in Action.” The event aimed to strengthen the interactions between policy and decision makers, operational national and European climate service providers, the research community, and EUMETSAT to unlock the power of satellite climate data for the benefit of society employing the latest technology. The symposium brought together policy and decision makers at all administrative levels, developers of workflows using satellite climate data, providers of operational climate data and services and their users as well as experts for suitable technology for co-creation in cloud computing.
GRDC contributed to the conference as exhibitor at the Fair of Opportunities and as part of the session “Interaction between Research and Operations in the joint development of applications”. The Fair of Opportunities provided the opportunity for participants to inform themselves about available climate data, different data providers and the products and services they offer. The fair was organised in the form of “Topical Islands” and GRDC was included together with its partner data centres International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) and Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) into the Drought & Water booth with two posters about GRDC and GTN-R. In addition, Omid Elmi from the University of Stuttgart presented a poster about the Extension of GRDC data via remote sensing.
One topic of the session “Interaction between Research and Operations in the joint development of applications” was to create an understanding of the need for the annual report “State of Global Water Ressources” and possibilities to speed up its composition. After a general introduction of the report by Sulagna Mishra from WMO, the three data centres provided a detailed insight into their contribution to the report. In a shared presentation, Matthias Zink from ISMN and Simon Mischel from GRDC highlighted the importance of the collection and distribution of in situ river discharge and soil moisture data globally. Simon also participated in the following panel discussion, in which the topics of the session were explored in greater depth.
The symposium was very well received and offered a good opportunity to exchange ideas and foster the collaboration with the remote sensing community.
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