ESC General Assemblies

The ESC organizes biannual General Assemblies, usually with 300-600 participants, and fosters workshops and seminars on specific seismological topics between the Assemblies. The scientific outcomes of the Assemblies have been published in the ESC proceedings and in special issues of scientific journals. Recommendations and resolutions  are adopted at each Assembly.

The first ESC training course for young seismologists was organised in connection with the XXV ESC General Assembly in Reykjavík, Iceland in 1996. Since then, the Young Seismologist Training Course has taken place on the week preceding or following each General Assembly under a variety of topics. Up to 65 young seismologists have attended each course. They have obtained insights into seismology under the tutorship of established seismologists from Europe and overseas. The courses have been co-sponsored by IASPEI and other institutions. 

Every eight years the ESC General Assembly is held together with the European Conference on Earthquake Engineering by the European Association for Earthquake Engineering. These meetings aim to foster and increase cooperation between the engineering and seismological communities. The first joint event, the First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology was organized in Geneva, Switzerland in 2006, the second ECEES in Istanbul, Turkey in 2014. The third ECEES took place in Bucharest, Romania, in 2022.

The Inge Lehmann Award Lecture was introduced in 2014. It is granted to a highly esteemed woman seismologist or earth scientist with contributions to seismology. The Award lecture is delivered as one keynote lecture of the ESC General Assembly. The ESC Student Award granted at every General Assembly in the categories of oral and poster presentation was introduced in 2016. 

Click on the city or year above to view materials from the respective General Assembly. Currently the amount of materials available for different years varies. More materials will be uploaded as they become available.