The new decade is evolving at speed with a lot of engagement and new collaborations across the globe. Some major achievements and upcoming initiatives are listed below.

The visionary paper

The final and corrected version of our joint visionary paper was published in August in the IAHS community Journal – well done all 128 authors! This paper is hopefully the first in a long list of publications as an outcome of our collaborative work during this decade.

How to cite:

Arheimer, B., Cudennec, C., Castellarin, A., Grimaldi, S., Heal, K. V., Lupton, C., … Xia, J. (2024). The IAHS Science for Solutions decade, with Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world (HELPING). Hydrological Sciences Journal, 69(11), 1417–1435. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2024.2355202 

Paper collection for citations

We have now started to collect papers that mention the IAHS HELPING initiative in the Acknowledgement in a Publication List. We are looking forward to browsing through many of your papers there in the near future – please use the Google link on the IAHS/HELPING website to complete this form, or email [email protected] to add a HELPING paper to the list. For example, acknowledgements could be phrased as follows:

• This work was inspired by the IAHS initiative HELPING: “Hydrology Engaging with Local People IN one Global world”.
• This work contributes to the goals of the IAHS scientific decade of HELPING (2023-2032).  
• This work was performed as part of the IAHS HELPING Working Group on “name of WG”.

This will help with writing synthesis papers at a later stage when scientific results are accumulating and it will give our papers high visibility in the IAHS community and beyond.

Online conference with all Working Groups

Last year's online HELPING conference was a success and will be repeated 26 Nov 2024 (13-16 CET) in a new format, addressing some of the suggestions made at the side event at EGU. We now have 29 Working Groups that will be gathered to highlight progress and discuss collaboration. Watch out for the upcoming link in the IAHS enews and the IAHS Calendar, where you can also read about events organized by specific working groups.

HELPING tags in the Digital Water Globe

It is now possible to tag and filter items to relevant HELPING Working Groups (up to 6 per item) in the Digital Water Globe. This will facilitate outreach and finding results from case studies as well as finding peers for networking across the globe.

Open call for new HELPING Chair 

The IAHS Scientific Decades change Chair every second year and an open call will soon be announced. The current Theme leaders will remain another year to ensure sustainability and not loose momentum. Prof. Berit Arheimer steps down by the end of 2024 and the new Chair starts 1 January 2025. Follow the process and check out the Call in upcoming enews.

Helping web pages

All Working Groups now have dedicated webpages on the IAHS website  that you can reach by clicking their titles in the table. You can explore the activities under each Theme, browse through presentations and sign up to Working Groups and suggest new ones. You can also contact the Working Group's Chair directly through a contact form. 

Want To Know More About HELPING

If you're new to the world of HELPING and eager to get involved, don't hesitate to reach out to us. Just drop us an email at [email protected] and let's embark on this scientific journey together. 

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