The awards programme of the EMS is a way of recognising the achievements of people who have made major contributions to the development of meteorology in Europe. The EMS Council welcomes nominations for the following prestigious awards: EMS Silver Medal and Technology Achievement Award for 2020. Both awards will be presented at the EMS Annual Meeting in Bratislava in September 2020. Nominations for these awards should be submitted via Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo..

 EMS Silver Medal

The EMS Silver Medal recognises distinguished contributions to the development of meteorology in Europe. The Award consists of the Silver Medal and a certificate, and the awardee is invited to give a Silver Medal Lecture the EMS Annual Meeting. The awards are based on the following criteria:

•      Service to the European meteorological community.
•      Outstanding contributions to increase and enhance the public understanding of relevant meteorological aspects and issues.
•      Scientific contributions to meteorology and related fields.

Nominations should be submitted by 31 January 2020.

Information about the nomination process and required documents can be found at https://www.emetsoc.org/awards/award-category/ems-silver-medal/.

Technology Achievement Award

The Technology Achievement Awards recognise achievements that are influential on developments of technologies and technical solutions in meteorology and related areas, have advanced the methods and technologies of environmental observing and forecasting systems and demonstrated the potential to impact on the field at the European scale. The Award is given in the form of a certificate. For this award there is a two-stage admission procedure.

 A one page document outlining the achievement to be submitted by 10 December 2019.

For those short-listed, a formal submission with all the required documents by 31 January 2020.

 Information about the nomination process and required documents can be found at https://www.emetsoc.org/awards/award-category/ems-technology-achievement-award/.