The General Assembly 2019 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) is held at the Austria Center Vienna in Vienna, Austria, on 7–12 April 2019. The assembly will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting with more than 1000 scientific sessions, debates, short courses, and side events, and close to 17,000 abstracts covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.

Rorie Edmunds will represent WDS at the General Assembly, and will give an oral presentation in session ESSI2.7 'Establishing a comprehensive Open and FAIR ecosystem for Solid Earth and Environmental researchers, repositories, publishers, policy makers and funders'. He will also lead a splinter meeting on CoreTrustSeal Certification for the Earth, Space, and Environmental Science Repository Cohort established under the American Geophysical Union.