Limited financial assistance in the form of travel support and/or fee waivers is available to enable and support the participation of students, early career researchers (ECR1s) and scientists from certain developing countries in the 1st Pan-GLASS Conference (Pan-GLASS 2026).
Assistance will be assigned based on financial need and scientific merit of the proposed presentation described in the abstract, the applicant’s contribution to the Pan-GLASS 2026 and their provision of all supporting documents (see below). Applicants must attend the entire conference in order to qualify for the financial assistance.
Note that the travel support will most likely not cover the entire cost of attending the Pan-GLASS 2026; therefore, applicants are strongly advised to secure partial support from other sources.
Priority will be given to:
1An Early Career Researcher (ECR) is an undergraduate or postgraduate (Masters/PhD) student or a scientist who has received the highest degree (BSc, MSc, or PhD) within the past six years. Provided parental leave fell into that period, up to one year of parental leave time may be added per child, where appropriate with a maximum of four years total.
How to Apply for Financial Support
During the registration process, you can apply for financial support in a designated section of the registration form. In order to qualify for financial support, applicants must SUBMIT ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
As already mentioned above, we strongly encourage the applicant to secure a significant proportion of support from national or institutional sources, as the financial support granted by the organizing committee does not usually cover all costs of attending the conference.
Registration and abstract submission is expected to open on 31 December 2025.
In-person registrations are non-transferable from one attendee to another. Each attendee will have a unique registration account. When you want to cancel your registration, a written notification must be emailed to contact@gewexevents.org at the latest by 10 May 2026.
Registration cancellations received by 10 May 2026 will receive a full refund of the registration fee. Abstract submission fees are non-refundable. No refunds will be issued for cancellations after 10 May 2026.
The conference organizers reserve the right to reschedule your presentation without any restrictions. In these instances, the refund policy remains in effect and no refunds will be issued for cancellations after 10 May 2026.
The following refund policy will be applied if (international) travel restrictions are in place in 2026.
In the event the 1st Pan-GLASS Conference is:
| Cancelled: | your payment of registration and abstract submission fee will be refunded fully. |
| Moved to Online Setting: | you receive a full refund for the registration fee. The abstract submission fee is non-refundable. |
| Postponed to 2027 or a later: | you have the option to either cancel your registration and get a full refund for the registration and abstract submission fee or to leave your registration active. Your payment will be applied towards next year’s payment. |
The 2026 GLASS Panel Meeting will take place at:
University of Hohenheim
Schloß Hohenheim 1
70599 Stuttgart
Germany
The hotels below are convenient and close to the university:
Christkönigshaus (13 min. walk)
Paracelsusstraße 89
70599 Stuttgart
Telefon 0711 458 282-3
Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart
(13 min. walk)
Paracelsusstraße 91
70599 Stuttgart
For other accommodations click here.
By Air
Stuttgart Airport is close to the University of Hohenheim. There are several options to travel from the airport to the your destination. Please click on your preferred method of transportation for additional information.
Public Transportation (15–30 min. and costs €4)
Bike (15 – 20 min.)
Taxi (about 5 min. drive and €18)
By Rail
Stuttgart Central Station is a major railway station (Deutsche Bahn) close to Hohenheim. Please click here for your transport to Hohenheim.
For an overview of visa requirements/exemptions for entry into the Federal Republic of Germany, click here.
Stuttgart, capital of southwest Germany’s Baden-Württemberg state, is known as a manufacturing hub. Mercedes-Benz and Porsche have headquarters and museums here. The city is filled with greenspaces, which wrap around its center. Popular parks include the Schlossgarten, Rosensteinpark and Killesbergpark. Wilhelma, one of the largest zoos and botanical gardens in Europe, is just northeast of Rosenstein Castle.
Hohenheim is one of 18 outer quarters of the city of Stuttgart in the borough of Plieningen that sits on the Filder in central Baden-Württemberg. The quarter was founded in 1782 when Schloss Hohenheim was constructed on the orders of Charles Eugene of Baden-Württemberg. The University of Hohenheim, as the name might imply, is based here and uses much of Schloss Hohenheim for its campus.
A few of the things to go to while in Stuttgart are the Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums and the Wilhelma Zoologisch-Botanischer Garten or maybe wander through one of the many parks, like the Schlossgarten which threads together the Mittlerer Schlossgarten, with its fine biergarten for summer imbibing, the sculpture-dotted Unterer Schlossgarten, and the Oberer Schlossgarten, home to stately landmarks such as the Staatstheater and the glass-fronted Landtag.
2026 GLASS Annual Report
2026 GLASS Rapporteur Rapport
Coupling of Land and Atmospheric Subgrid Parameterizations (CLASP)
GEWEX Atmospheric Boundary Layer Study, Phase 5 (GABLS–5)
GEWEX Land/Atmosphere Feedback Observatory (GLAFO)
Irrigation Crosscutting Project
Local Land-Atmosphere Coupling (LoCo) Project
Machine Learning for Land Modeling (ML4LM)
PALS Land Surface Model Benchmarking Evaluation Project, Phase 2 (PLUMBER2)
Solar Induced Fluorescence Model Intercomparison Project (SIF-MIP)
GEWEX Soil and Water (SoilWat)
The 2026 GLASS Panel meeting is by invitation only. If you have received an invitation and want to participate, we ask you to complete the registration form below.
The GEWEX/Global Land-Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) panel is a volunteer-based research coordination panel focusing on land model development and evaluation in three core areas: process-oriented exploration, benchmarking (grid-cell to regional to global scales), and global-scale model experimentation and intercomparison. GLASS encourages and coordinates community-based activities in these areas, covering climate and weather timescales in both offline and coupled modelling environments, across the coupled water, energy and carbon cycles. Activities coordinated in this way, with participants from a wide range of international institutions, reduce the potential for duplication in research and act as a catalyst for international collaborations.
The annual GLASS Panel Meeting, by invitation only, will take place on Friday, 10 July 2026, at the University of Hohenheim, following the 2026 Pan-GLASS Meeting. The main focus is to review the outcomes of the Pan-GLASS event and assess their implications for the GLASS Panel’s objectives, working groups, and ongoing projects. Participants will discuss future directions based on these results.
Meeting objectives
If you have received an invitation for the 2026 GLASS Panel Meeting and plan on attending, please register no later than 15 April 2026. However, if you are requesting travel support, please register as soon as possible at the latest by 31 January 2026.
Please register at the Registration tab.
Venue
The 2026 GLASS Panel Meeting will take place at:
University of Hohenheim
Schloß Hohenheim 1
70599 Stuttgart
Germany
Visa
Germany is part of the Schengen area. Residents of certain countries must apply for a visa in their home country before entering Germany.
For information about visa requirements click here.
Travel & Accommodation
For information about accommodations and transportation visit the Practical Information tab.
Background Image courtesy of Alexander Migi, Gardens in Schloss Hohenheim
Top image courtesy of University of Hohenheim, Arial image of the Castle of Hohenheimen seen from the North
