Scientific events

7–11 June 2027

We are pleased to announce that the 38th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM) will take place from 7–11 June 2027 in Grenoble, France, at the foothills of the Alps.
Program and Highlights
A single plenary scientific program will run from Monday to Friday, with a midweek excursion on Wednesday, 9 June, to the Col du Lautaret. Participants will have the opportunity to visit the renowned high-altitude Alpine Botanical Garden of Lautaret, located near the Écrins massif and (…)

November 24, 25 & 26 2026

The 9th edition of the “Climate and Impacts” conference will take place on November 24, 25, and 26, 2026, at the University of Paris-Saclay campus, on the premises of the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, both IN-PERSON and REMOTELY. The 9th edition of the “Climate and Impacts” days bring together scientific communities working on climate change across a range of timescales, its causes, its impacts on ecosystems, and its consequences for past and present human societies. The thematic (…)

From 26th october to 6 november 2026

Opening of the 33rd session of ERCA, the international school on atmosphere, on Monday october 26, 2026, 9 a.m., at Grenoble Rooted in atmospheric sciences, it also extends to the social aspects of global change. ERCA is open to modellers, field scientists, and lab scientists, providing an ideal setting for participants to interact with and discuss research with leading experts in their fields. With an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to pressing atmospheric science and climate (…)

October 12 to October 16, 2026

ECOTUMN is a week of English-language scientific lectures held in Grenoble and dedicated to major topics in ecology. It is organized this year by six first- and second-year PhD students from the Alpine Ecology Laboratory (LECA). It is primarily aimed at PhD students interested in exploring recent approaches and findings in ecology and evolution.
This 2026 edition will take place from October 12 to October 16, 2026, and will focus on the theme: “From Local to Global: Ecological Shifts and (…)

2nd to 6th February 2026

Important societal issues require to solve problems of increasing complexity. A key vector of progress relies on multi-scale and multi-physics approaches.
The objective of the winter school is to review the different approaches, numerical and experimental techniques to tackle the complexity of today’s engineering environmental and health-related problems. All the courses are illustrated through various up-to-date examples. Two days are devoted to practical laboratory work, combining (…)

December 2nd to 4th, 2025

The 5th conference on Stochastic Weather Generators, “SWGEN 2025 workshop”, will take place from December 2nd to 4th, 2025 at the Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE) in Grenoble, France (2 rue de la Papeterie, Domaine Universitaire – 38100 Gières). There is no registration fee for the workshop ; participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses.
This international workshop will present the latest developments in stochastic weather data generators and a (…)

6-10th October 2025

The date for the 16th International Paleolimnology Symposium is the 6-10th October 2025 in Aix-les-Bains, France. The goal of the IAL-IPA joint meetings is to celebrate research on lakes from multiple perspectives with a focus on the sediment record as both Earth System Archives and social and cultural memories of Human societies.
This conference aims to bridge the gap across a broad range of disciplines that work within the overarching theme of Earth System and (…)

From 14 to 18 september 2025

The International Mountain Conference will take place from September 14 to 18 in Innsbruck, Austria. On this occasion, the living lab VIVALP team - a research program on Nature-based solutions led by Sandra Lavorel (LECA) and Isabelle Arpin (LESSEM) - has proposed a session: “NbS in protected areas: an opportunity to improve management pratices?”
International Mountain Conference will take place from September 14 – 18 2025 in Innsbruck, Austria. IMC builds upon the previous mountain (…)

23 & 24 june 2025

The conference “Residue and Oblivion: Manufacturing Toxic Legacies” will take place on June 23–24, 2025, in Grenoble, at the Pacte research laboratory. This event offers a cross-reflections based on the exemplary case of asbestos in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Asbestos has become a thing of the past. The subject of social struggles in the 1970s, expert battles in the following decade, then media scandals at the end of the 20th century (Henry, 2007), asbestos was for a long time (…)

June 23-27, 2025

The CBH Graduate School of UGA organizes interdisciplinary summer schools aimed at master’s and doctoral students of UGA. They are based on participatory methods with research, industrial and other socio-economic partners. This year, the school "reducing the carbon footprint of research" is co-organized with the DefiCO2 research consortium. These schools are a unique moment of exchange, sharing and creativity between students from all backgrounds. Why not taking this opportunity to redesign (…)