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The European Space Weather Week (ESWW) is one of the leading annual international events dedicated to Space Weather and Space Climate. Originally established as a meeting point for the European scientific community, it has progressively developed into an international conference involving researchers, engineers and professionals from different scientific and technological sectors. The event promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and the exchange of knowledge among specialists in satellite operations, telecommunications, navigation, energy distribution, aviation and space weather services, as well as end users operating in fields such as transport safety, civil protection and scientific research. Its main objectives are to discuss recent scientific developments, investigate the effects of solar activity on Earth and technological infrastructures, and identify strategies to minimise potential risks. Particular attention is also devoted to innovative technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, and their applications in space weather monitoring and forecasting.

The edition of ESWW2026 will be held in Florence (Italy), under the theme “Data-driven and physics-based cross-scale Space Weather and Space Climate”. This year's focus is on combining observational data and physical models to improve the understanding of space weather processes across different spatial and temporal scales. The topics addressed will range from large-scale solar phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), to smaller-scale mechanisms associated with energy dissipation in the solar wind and Earth's near-space environment. The conference will also highlight recent advances in machine learning and theoretical modelling, exploring their potential to improve the interpretation and prediction of space weather events.

The MIDA group will be present at the meeting in various roles:

• Michele Piana, E-SWAN organ - LOC chair - NOC member
• Sabrina Guastavino, LOC member
• Edoardo Legnaro, LOC member
• Anna Maria Massone, LOC member

A delegation representing the MIDA group is participating with various contributions:

PLENARY SESSION (conveners)

• The Future of Space Weather Prediction: Integrating Artificial Intelligence, Physical Models, Data and Operations
  Sabrina Guastavino, Dario Del Moro, Véronique Delouille, Hannah Theresa Rüdisser

TALKS

• CORNERSTONE: A Reproducible Infrastructure for Solar Flare Forecasting from SHARP Magnetograms
  Federico Benvenuto, Dario Del Moro, Simone Chirichini, Stefano Scardigli, Ronish Mugatwala, Miriana Catalano, Daniele Pedemonte, Andrea Tacchino
• Machine Learning for Multi-Horizon Forecasting of Geomagnetic Disturbances with Horizon-Dependent Feature Importance
  Fabiana Camattari, Sabrina Guastavino, Emma Perracchione, Michele Piana, Anna Maria Massone
• Combining Vigil with sub-L1 missions on distant retrograde orbits
  Christian Moestl, Eva Weiler, Emma Davies, Hannah T. Rüdisser, Ute V. Amerstorfer, Tanja Amerstorfer, Fabiana Camattari, Noé Lugaz, Erika Palmerio

POSTERS

• Temporal SHARP Features for CME-Associated Flare Discrimination: A Machine Learning Benchmark
  Ronish Mugatwala, Simone Chierichini, Miriana Catalano, Daniele Pedemonte, Stefano Scardigli, Dario Del Moro, Federico Benvenuto
• Physical symbolic optimization for solar flare classification problem
  Miriana Catalano, Sabrina Guastavino, Federico Benvenuto, Anna Maria Massone, Michele Piana
• Investigating CME flux rope handedness in in-situ data via a wavelet-derived 2D magnetic helicity proxy
  Fabiana Camattari, Daniele Telloni, Hannah Rüdisser, Emma E. Davies, Sabrina Guastavino, Christian Möstl
• The physics of interplanetary disturbances: identifying solar wind structures and transients through unsupervised anomaly detection
  Matteo Trombini, Sabrina Guastavino, Fabiana Camattari, Christian Mostl, Emma Perracchione
• A novel approach for imaging thermal DEM and non-thermal component in solar flares from STIX data
  Alessia Guidetti, Muriel Zoë Stiefel, Paolo Massa, Säm Krucker
• 3D reconstruction of thermal hard X-ray sources in solar flares from combined STIX and HXI visibilities
  Barbara Palumbo, Paolo Massa, Muriel Zoë Stiefel, Daniel Ryan, Hannah Collier, Yang Su, Michele Piana, Säm Krucker
• The ASI Space Weather Center: Infrastructure, Services, and Ionosphere-Thermosphere Applications
  Luca Spazzacampagna, Alessio Pignalberi, Claudio Cesaroni, Michael Pezzopane, Marco Pietrella, Dario Del Moro, Luca Giovannelli, Francesco Berrilli, Giulia D'angelo, Mirko Piersanti, Sabrina Guastavino, Edoardo Legnaro, Michele Piana, Anna Maria Massone, Giulio Danella
• Classifying Solar Wind Speeds using Topological Data Analysis on SDO/AIA Image Data
  Francesco Marchetti, Sabrina Guastavino, Daniel Collin
• End-to-End Software Suite for Space Weather Sub-L1 Multi-Spacecraft Mission Planning and CME Early Warning
  Daniele Telloni, Sabrina Guastavino

Scientific Programme 2026