17th EUMETSAT User Forum in Africa
5 -9 October 2026
Eswatini

Technical Online Sessions, 10-11 June 2026

Preliminary programme

The technical on-line sessions will take place the 10 and 11 June 2026. These sessions will consist of interactive group discussions and will be organized online. Participation to this event will be upon invitation.

1. Objectives, expected outcomes of the online sessions
The technical sessions will last two days and will consist of one introductory session focusing on satellite Data access and training (Session #1) and 3 Working groups sessions :
Session #2 Meteosat Third Generation in Africa, PUMA stations deployment, 
Session #3 Climate monitoring, Climate Station deployment,
Session #4 Strenghtening Early Warning System (SEWA) with focus on AMSAF (African Meteorological Sat-ellite Application Facility).

These sessions will allow experts from African NMHSs to exchange on these topics at technical level.

Because the participants of these sessions will not be the same than during the Plenary, some of the themes dis-cussed above will also be presented during the Plenary sessions. Furthermore reports from the interactive sessions will be given during the introductory session or during each thematic session of the Plenary 5-9 October, 2026).

DAY #1 - 10 June 2026
 08:00 - 09:00 (UTC)   

#0 Introductory session

 
 09:00 - 10:00 (UTC) 

#1 EUMETSAT programme, data access and training

Chairpersons: Sarah Kimani [IMTR], Duduzile Nhlengethwa-Masina [EMS]

Rapporteurs: Sally Wannop / Hayley Evers-King [EUMETSAT]

 
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 12:00 - 14:00 (UTC) 

#2 Meteosat Third Generation and PUMA stations / User feedback

Chairperson: Harsen Nyambe [AUC (DARBE)]

Rapporteur: Vincent Gabaglio [EUMETSAT]

  • MTG-Africa products and PUMA-2025 station deployment status, results from survey on Feedback mechanism (30’)
  • 12:30-13:40 - PARALLEL SPLINTER SESSION (WG)
    • WG #1: Initial feedback on MTG-Africa products (EN/FR) - Report
    • WG #2: Initial feedback on MTG-Africa products (EN) - Report 
    • WG #3: Initial feedback on PUMA-2025 stations (EN) - Report
    • WG #4: Initial feedback on PUMA-2025 stations (FR) - Report
    • WG #5: Status of transition towards MTG in North Africa (FR and Arabic) - Report 
       
  • Report of the Working Group #1 to #5
 DAY #2 - 11 June 2026
 08:00 - 10:00 (UTC) 

#3 Climate monitoring - ClimSA stations deployment and training

Chairperson: Mariane Diop Kane [WMO]

Rapporteur: Hervé Trebossen [EUMETSAT]

 
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 12:00 - 14:00 (UTC) 

#4 Strengthening Early Warning in Africa (SEWA) project

Chairperson: Patrick Kinyua Gikunda [ACMAD]

Rapporteur: Hervé Trebossen [EUMETSAT]


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