Registration for the 4th Destination Earth (DestinE) User eXchange on 25 and 26 June are now open. This edition will take place during ESA’s Living Planet Symposium (LPS) in Vienna.
Following the successful User eXchanges in Frascati, Bonn and Darmstadt, this event series continues to grow as a key platform for users, partners and stakeholders to connect, share experiences, and explore the latest developments in the DestinE ecosystem. This year’s User eXchange is organised by ESA and will be held during the LPS at the Austria Center Vienna on 25 and 26 June 2025.
Held about once per year, the User eXchange series brings together participants from across sectors, including scientists, developers, service providers, and policymakers, offering them the chance to engage with each other and the initiative’s three implementing entities: ECMWF, ESA and EUMETSAT as well as representatives from the European Commission’s DG CNECT, leading this initiative.
Register now and join the next DestinE User eXchange meeting from 25 to 26 June 2025 in Vienna.
Please note: Remote participation is also possible. Participants who wish to attend the User eXchange on-site must also register separately for the LPS, after registering for the User eXchange itself.
User engagement, real life applications and DestinE’s digital twins in the spotlight
The two-day programme will offer visionary talks, panel discussions, technical sessions, and poster presentations, highlighting user engagement and practical applications.
On the first day, two dedicated sessions will focus on DestinE’s Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin (Climate DT) and Weather-Induced Extremes Digital Twin (Extremes DT), implemented by ECMWF and many partners across Europe. One session will highlight how the Extremes DT can support preparedness and response efforts for extreme weather events. The second session will explore the role of the Climate DT in supporting selected sectors impacted by climate change, such as renewable energy and urban planning. Both sessions will include updates from project teams and real-world examples of how users are already benefiting from these tools.
The 4th User eXchange will also explore how user feedback is shaping DestinE, highlighting ongoing improvements to usability, accessibility, and functionality of the DestinE platform.
In addition to the User eXchange, the broader LPS programme features four Digital Twin-focused sessions. Jörn Hoffmann, Application Partnerships Lead at ECMWF and Tiago Quintino, Head of Development Section at ECMWF, are co-convening these sessions together with convenors from ESA and EUMETSAT. The sessions cover collaborative innovation for building digital twins of the Earth system, technological innovation, synergies between ESA’s DTE programme and DestinE, and Earth observation for developing digital twin components.
You can find the full User eXchange programme here and the programme for the LPS here.
Destination Earth is a European Union funded initiative launched in 2022, with the aim to build a digital replica of the Earth system by 2030. The initiative is being jointly implemented by three entrusted entities: the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) responsible for the creation of the first two ‘digital twins’ and the ‘Digital Twin Engine’, the European Space Agency (ESA) responsible for building the ‘Core Service Platform’, and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), responsible for the creation of the ‘Data Lake’.
We acknowledge the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking for awarding this project strategic access to the EuroHPC supercomputers LUMI, hosted by CSC (Finland) and the LUMI consortium, Marenostrum5, hosted by BSC (Spain) Leonardo, hosted by Cineca (Italy) and MeluXina, hosted by LuxProvide (Luxembourg) through a EuroHPC Special Access call.
More information about Destination Earth is on the Destination Earth website and the EU Commission website.
For more information about ECMWF’s role visit ecmwf.int/DestinE
For any questions related to the role of ECMWF in Destination Earth, please use the following email links: