Preliminary Agenda of the ITMS General Assembly 2026 & Phase 2 Kick-off

08:00

Focus: Annual General Assembly

Focus: Phase 2 Kick-off

09:00

Organisation & Individual Arrival

+ Coffee

📍 Ground floor

ITMS-B Overview Talks
Highlights from the Observation Module (B):
Overview, Recent Developments & Selected Results

📍 Hörsaal C0.001

Greeting words from the BMFTR

ITMS-Phase 2 Kick-off
-General & Module Overview Talk (M, Q&S, B, K)-
Introduction to ITMS Phase 2: Objectives & Priorities, Presentation of the Phase 2 plans for each module by the respective Module Coordinators

📍 Hörsaal C0.001

09:30

10:00

ITMS-Q&S Overview Talks
Presentations of the Structure and Highlights of the Source & Sink Module (Q&S) and short presentations of selected results

📍 Hörsaal C0.001

10:30

11:00

Coffee break

📍 1st floor + Outdoor

Coffee break

📍 1st floor + Outdoor

11:30

Focus group discussion 1 (2 - 3 groups)
Parallel Thematic Discussions (Participant Choice)

1: Gridded emission uncertainties | 📍 Room B.002

2: Satellite data assimilation | 📍 Room B.004

3: Reconciliation of top-down and bottom-up estimates | 📍 Room C1.011

SAB Feedback
Science Advisory Board Feedback and Recommendations
(Open- with the Consortium)

📍 Hörsaal C0.001

12:00

Registration + Icebreaker lunch
(Finger foods provided)

📍 1st floor + Outdoor

12:30

Lunch (optional & self-paid)
📍Zeiss Mensa (payment by credit/debit card only)

Lunch (Finger foods provided)

📍1st floor + Outdoor

13:00

13:30

Outlook & Farewell

📍 Hörsaal C0.001

14:00

Welcome Address + Organisation

Invited Keynote Talks

📍 Hörsaal C0.001

Report on Focus Group Discussions (All groups)
Joint report from the Focus group discussions

📍 Hörsaal C0.001

14:30

Module Sessions (M, B, Q&S)
Parallel sessions for topics specific to modules:

ITMS-B (Observations) |📍 Room B.002

ITMS-M (Modelling) |📍 Hörsaal C0.001

ITMS-Q&S (Sources & Sinks) |📍 Room C1.011

15:15

ITMS-M Overview Talks
Highlights from the Modelling Module (M):
Modelling and Data Assimilation Developments & Inversion Results

📍 Hörsaal C0.001

15:30

16:15

ITMS-V Overview Talks
Highlights from the Utilization Module (V):
Summary of user & reconciliation meeting (“UBA meeting”) and user requirements. Report on outreach activities and publicly available
ITMS data.

📍 Hörsaal C0.001

Coffee break

📍 1st floor + Outdoor

16:45

Coffee break + Group Picture (Consortium, Coordination group)

📍 1st floor + Outdoor

Poster Session 2
Cross-module posters, mixed from all modules

📍 2nd + Ground floor

17:00

Poster Session 1
Cross-module posters, mixed from all modules

📍 2nd + Ground floor

SAB Meeting
Science Advisory Board Review & Progress Discussions (Closed - within the Coordination group)

📍 Room B.002

17:30

18:00

19:00

Open Dinner at multiple reserved Restaurants
(self-paid)

Joint Dinner at Braugasthof Papiermühle
(self-paid)

19:30