PANGEO AUSTRIA 2026

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to PANGEO AUSTRIA 2026.
We are delighted to welcome you to this year's PANGEO conference in Graz. Graz is hosting PANGEO for the third time; the two previous meetings took place in 2004 and 2014. This year, the meeting is being organized by NAWI Graz Geocenter. The conference will once again bring together scientists, students, and colleagues from the field to share their experiences and research findings on a range of aspects of the geosciences.

Since 2015, the NAWI Graz Geocenter has been pooling the scientific expertise of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Graz and the Institutes of Applied Geosciences, Rock Mechanics and Tunneling, as well as Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Numerical Geotechnics at Graz University of Technology in an inter-university cooperation network for scientific research and university teaching. The NAWI Graz Geozentrum thus combines basic and applied research, as well as earth science and geotechnical disciplines.

Such cooperation models, as well as the visibility and international standing of earth and geosciences in Austria, will also be a focus of PANGEO 2026. The integration of these areas allows synergies to be exploited, innovations to be driven forward, the pressing challenges of our time to be tackled, and new horizons in the geosciences to be opened up. The guiding motto of PANGEO 2026 is therefore

„New Horizons in Geosciences and Geotechnics“.

A broad range of topics has always been a fundamental principle of PANGEO AUSTRIA, which
is also reflected in the lectures and poster presentations. The importance of regional and
application-oriented aspects is further emphasized by excursions. In order to promote the
teaching of geoscientific content in schools, we are keen to actively involve teachers and
students in the conference and its organization.

Conference content:

• Sessions on current general and applied geoscientific and geotechnical research topics with
  poster and oral presentations
   
• Sessions as part of the federal seminar “Geology in Schools”
   
• Awards for poster and oral presentations by students
   
• Field trips
   
• Short courses