EPOS Days 2026

Programme

 

Day 1 - Monday 16 March
12.00-13.30		Arrivals and registrations
13.30-15.00		Welcome lunch
Introducing EPOS This session is designed to present EPOS to those who are new to the community (e.g. new Early Career Researchers), new communities, and invited partners... But also as an opportunity for those who are already in EPOS to ask questions and learn more. This session is connected to EPOS ON activities in WP1 and WP6			Session Chair: Gaetano Festa
15.00-15.30	Introducing EPOS and the EPOS Days		Gaetano Festa
15.30-15.40	Welcome, event values, and housekeeping info		Federica Tanlongo
Thematic Core Services  In the first part of the session, TCS will give flash talks, highlighting current cross-TCS collaboration;  in the second part a Meet & Greet interactive space will allow people to get together to discuss. This session is connected to EPOS ON activities in WP2			Session Chair: Gaetano Festa, Otto Lange, Helen Glaves
15.40-16.50	Flash presentations from the TCS
	Candidate TCS Built Environment Data (BED)		Rui Pinho (Candidate TCS BED)
	TCS AH in 2025 dissemination, education and RI development		Anna Lesnodorska (TCS AH)
	Geomagnetic and geoelectric data		Roman Leonhardth (TCS GEOM)
	Geological Information and Modeling		Marc Urvois (TCS GIM)
	GNSS Data and Products		Paul Crocker (TCS GNSS)
	TCS Multi-scale laboratories: status quo and future plans		Kirsten Elger (TCS MSL)
	TCS Near-Fault Observatories (NFO)		Alexandru Marmureanu (TCS NFO)
	TCS Satellite Data (SATD)		Michele Manunta (TCS SATD)
	TCS Seismology (SEIS)		Anastasia Kiratzi (TCS SEIS)
	TCS Tsunami: Two Years on a Boat		Andrey Babeyko (TCS TSU)
	TCS Volcano Obserbations (VO)		Giuseppe Puglisi (TCS VO)
16.50-18.15	Meet & Greet with the TCS – networking session with coffee and refreshments
18.15-18.30	Brief reports by rapporteurs, with highlights & results from the discussions		Otto Lange, Helen Glaves and ECRs

 

Day 2 - Tuesday 17 March
New Services and New Communities This session aims to present new communities to be involved in EPOS and the progress made in collaborating with those who attended last year's edition, discussing lessons learned, roadblocks and possible solutions. This session is connected to EPOS ON activities in WP2			Session Chairs: Rossana Paciello, Otto Lange, Jan Michalek
9.00-9.15	Welcome and introduction of the day’s agenda		Lilli Freda
9.15-9.30	EPOS ON WP2: Achievements during project first period		Otto Lange, Jan Michalek
9.30-9.45	Integrating the EuroGeographics Maps into the EPOS Platform		Kety Giuliacci, Manuela Sbarra
9.45-10.00	Ground Instability data from Field Laboratories: a new opportunity for EPOS through the TCS MSL		Salvatore Martino
10.00-10.15	Development of a European Quantum Infrastructure for Gravimetry		Sebastien Merlet
10.15-10.30	Muography		Jari Joutsenvaara
10.30-10.50	The European and global data landscape in Geochemistry		Marthe Klocking
10.50-11.00	Q&A and interactive discussion
11.00 -11.45	Coffee break
Societal Impact and Responsible Research Infrastructures This session aims to discuss the status and perspective of EPOS’ impact on society, and reflect on the ethical aspects of the EPOS mission and plans, focussing on ethical issues, but also opportunities to offer guidance to the geoscience community on this important topic. This session is connected to EPOS ON activities in WP3			Session Chairs: Fabrizio Romano, Antonio Scala
11.45-12.00	EPOS ON WP3: Achievements during project first period		Fabrizio Romano
12.00-13.00	Scientific products exploitable in evidence-based decision making – introduction		Giovanna Forlenza
12.00-12.15	Next-Generation Earthquake Early Warning: From Public Alerts to Multi-Hazard Integration		Antonio Scala, Alexandru Marmureanu
12.15-12.30	An Integrated Tsunami Impact Assessment Workflow within ARISTOTLE: A Collaborative Use Case for Emergency Management		Finn Løvholt
12.30-12.45	Rapid Earthquake Impact Assessment: Understanding Uncertainty from Source and ShakeMap Variability		Helen Crowley
12.45-13.00	Operational ShakeMap Services: Applications and Societal Impact		Ilaria Oliveti
13.00-13.15	The Ethical Label to identify ethical and social implications of project outputs		Silvia Peppoloni
13.15-13.30	Q&A and interactive discussion
13.30-15.00	Lunch break
Early Career Researchers In this session ECRs present their scientific challenges and works and how the EPOS Platform can support them. It is divided in two parts, the first featuring 4-5-min lightning talks, followed by a poster session where participants will have the chance to ask questions and get details to the poster authors. This session is connected to EPOS ON activities in WP4			Session Chairs: Helena Ciechowska, Fernando Monterroso
15.00-16.45	Challenges presented by Early Career Researchers - Flash presentations
	Seismic hazard assessment in a low seismicity region: the case of NE Brazil	Augusto Fonseca - IG-PAS (AH)
	Near and intermediate fields influence on seismic moment for anthropogenic events	Anna Tyminska - IG-PAS (AH)
	Integrating structural engineering experimental data in EPOS via the Built Environment Data (BED) cTCS	Madalena Ponte - LNEC (BED)
	Understanding and mitigating the effects of earthquakes	Davit Shahnazaryan - EUCENTRE (BED)
	Geomagnetic Activity: Data and Visualization	Patrick Arneitz - GeoSphere (GEOM)
	Building the MT Dataset: Sofia Basin	Dilyana Hristova - NIGG (GEOM)
	TCS Geomagnetic Observations, A Mineral Exploration Use Case	Oskar Rydman - LTU (GEOM)
	Access to multidisciplinary geoscience data over transboundary study areas: connecting Digital Earth VRE to EPOS Platform	Maxime Labatut - BRGM (GIM)
	An Exploratory Study of GNSS Jamming Detection Using EPOS Data	Fikri Bamary - ORB (GNSS)
	Improving Offset Accessibility	Ruben Carvalho - UBI (GNSS)
	Where land meets sea: A field-scale laboratory for understanding coastal landslides	Guglielmo Grechi - UniRoma1 (MSL)
	Assessing permanent compaction in sandstone reservoirs	Mark Jefferd - UU (MSL)
	Evaluating NITRO’s EEWS readiness	Simone Francesco Fornasari - University of Trieste - NFO NITRO (NFO)
	Ambient Noise Interferometry for Shallow Structure Characterization at the Irpinia-NFO	Sara Moscaritolo - Università di Napoli - NFO Irpinia (NFO)
	Microseismicity characterization at the Irpinia Near Fault Observatory	Francesco Scotto di Uccio - Università di Napoli - NFO Irpinia (NFO)
	DAS potential for Early Warning within Near Fault Fiber Optic Networks	Claudio Strumia - Università di Napoli - NFO Irpinia (NFO)
	Record selection for seismic microzonation studies in Campi Flegrei area: local ground motion features and analysis challenges	Tommaso Castelbarco - Università di Milano - INGV (SEIS)
	Automatic Processing of Strong Motion Accelerometer Recordings for Earthquakes in Greece	Nikos Chatzis - AUTH (SEIS)
	Linking kinematic simulations to ground-motion variability across frequency and space	Marta Freddi - Università di Camerino - INGV (SEIS)
	Enhancing GMPE Development with Ground Motion Simulations: An Application for Istanbul	Hakan Suleiman - Boğaziçi University (SEIS)
	Uncertainty propagation from seismic sources in PTHA	Alice Abbate - GFZ (Tsunami)
	Submarine Landslide & Generated Tsunamis: Scenario based hazard assessment	Naveen Ragu Ramalingam - NGI (Tsunami)
	From PTHA to Probability of Safe Evacuation: An Agent-Based Modelling Use Case for EPOS ICS-D	Saeed Soltani - Università di Napoli (Tsunami)
	Enhancing Access to Volcano Observation Data	Alessio Patanè - INGV (VO)
	Retrieval of volcanic sulfur dioxide from Sentinel-5P TROPOMI satellite	Maddalena Dozzo - INGV (VO)
	Semi-Supervised Learning applied to multi-source satellite data for volcanic activity state classification: The case of Etna (2005-2008)	Francesco Spina - INGV (VO)
17.00-18.30	Works presented by Early Career Researchers - Posters & networking, with coffee and refreshments

 

19.30-22.00 - Social Dinner

 

Day 3 - Wednesday 18 March
International Collaboration This session focuses on international and global collaboration, with the objective of providing  practical points on which specific collaborative activities could/should focus. This session is connected to EPOS ON activities in WP5		Session Chairs: Joao Fonseca, Helen Glaves
9.00-9.30	Welcome and introduction of the day's agenda	Lilli Freda
09.30-10.00	Building a global network for the solid Earth research	Helen Glaves
10.00-10.15	Strengthening Morocco's Integration into EIDA	Oussama Arab, Mohamed Mastere
10.15-10.30	EPOS collaboration with GEM and GTM – potential services and licencing models for both research and commercial use	Finn Løvholt, Helen Crowley
10.30-10.45	Report from the ARGONAUT network: collaboration perspectives among global NFO infrastructures	The ARGONAUT team
10.45-11.00	EPOS and EOSC: where are we and who are we working with?	Alessandro Turco
11.00-11.45	Coffee break
11.45-12.00	Leveraging Copernicus to build domestic capacity for resilience in Africa	Luca Rossi, UN
12.00-12.15	Africa-EPOS Synergy: Co-Developing Open-Source Frameworks for EO Data and Disaster Resilience	Mohamed El Gabri, ADMIR
12.15-12.30	The Copernicus In-Situ Component	Lorenzo Solari, European Environment Agency
12.30-12.45	The Einstein Telescope Project and EPOS ERIC: The Way Forward	Monique Bossi, INFN
12.45-13.30	Interactive discussion
13.30-15.00	Lunch break
Free afternoon - walking tour of Quartiere Castello

 

Day 4 - Thursday 19 March
Technical Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions Key objective for this session is to bring some of the technical challenges (chosen from those with broader interest) to the attention of the wider EPOS Community, showcase the work done in the ICS-TCS Interaction context and collect relevant input. This session is connected to EPOS ON activities in WP2, WP3, WP4, and WP5		Session Chairs:  Jan Michalek, Rossana Paciello
09.00-09.15	Welcome and Introduction of the day's agenda	Lilli Freda
09.15-09.30	Platform introduction and context	Daniele Bailo
09.15-10.20	New features in the EPOS Platform
09:30-09.40	New features  in Graphical User Interface	Mario Malintesta
09.40-09.50	New features in Virtual Research Environment	Valerio Vinciarelli
09.50-10.10	New Features in Action: Scientific Use Case	Jan Michalek
10.10-10.20	EPOS Open Source in Practice	Marco Salvi
10.20-10.30	How FAIR are we? The EPOS FAIR Assessment	Kety Giuliacci
10.30-11.00	User Feedback Group - Report of findings and discussion	Emma Baiz, George Donoso
11.00-11.45	Coffee break
11.45-12.45	Integrating ICS-D into a Unified Data and Computational Platform	Daniele Bailo
12.45-13.30	Interactive discussion
13.30-15.00	Lunch break
EPOS in the National Landscapes The session is organised around group discussions about common challenges, with selected presentations of success stories, best practices and lessons learned from national implementations of EPOS. This session is connected to EPOS ON activities in WP6		Session Chairs: Maria Fredella, Daniela Mercurio
15.00-16.10	National Implementations: success stories from national experiences	Daniela Mercurio, Maria Fredella
15.00-15.10	Introduction and context	Daniela Mercurio
15.10-15.25	NFDI4Earth/Germany	Wolfgang zu Castell
15.25-15.40	EPOS FR and Data Terra / France	Alessandro Rizzo
15.40-15.50	EPOS-IT / Italy: Ten years on	Roberto Basili
15.50-16.00	EPOS-HR in Its First Phase: Structure, Challenges, and Opportunities	Clea Denamiel
16.00-16.10	EPOS-ES: Strengthening the Spanish Geoscience Community through EPOS	Adelina Geyer
16.10-16.45	Coffee break
16.45-18.30	Introducing the Forum on National Participation, discussion with the community	Daniela Mercurio, Maria Fredella
16.45-17.00	Introducing the Forum on National Participation	Daniela Mercurio
17.00-18.30	Interactive discussion

 

18.30 -19.30

National Authorities Consultation Board (NACB) meeting – Closed Session

 

Day 5 - Friday 20 March
Introducing the EPOS Data Policy This session will offer a detailed presentation of the new, improved version of the EPOS Data Policy, and will offer the audience the opportunity to ask questions.		Chair: Daniela Mercurio
9.00-9.30	Welcome and Introduction of the day's agenda	Lilli Freda
09.30 – 09.40	Introduction and context: the EPOS Policy WG and the new EPOS Data Policy	Daniela Mercurio
09.40 – 09.50	Founding values and EU legal framework	Helen Glaves
09.50 – 10.10	The EPOS Data Lifecycle	Rossana Paciello
10.10 – 10.20	Data security and protection	Federica Tanlongo
10.20 – 10.30	Intellectual Property Rights	Mario Locati
10.30-11.00	Q&A from the audience - Interactive discussion
11.00-11.45	Coffee break
Conclusions and vision towards the future This session will summarise the conclusions collected from previous conversations, while offering a vision towards the future and presenting next steps and activities in EPOS ON and in the wider EPOS scenario This session is connected to EPOS ON activities in all workpackages		Chair: Lilli Freda
11.45-12.30	Conclusions from the EPOS Days
	Conclusions from the TCS and new communities sessions	Gaetano Festa, Otto Lange
	Conclusions from the ECR session	Helena Ciechowska, Fernando Monterroso
	Conclusions from International Collaboration session	Helen Glaves, Joao Fonseca
	Conclusions from the National Clusters' session	Daniela Mercurio, Maria Fredella
	Event wrap-up and way forward	Lilli Freda
12.30-13.00	Future outlook - Interactive discussion
13.00	End of sessions
14.30 -18.30	Service Coordination Committee meeting – Closed Session