Stream 3 – Software Development

Check out the Challenges for Stream 3*
Are you a software developer with a keen interest in weather forecasting, climate data or atmosphere monitoring? Check the challenges under this stream and propose an innovative solution to the one that better suits your skills, expertise and preferences.
Show us your ideas and potential to enhance Earth Sciences through software development.
- Challenge 30 – EVALKIT: A unified tool for diagnosing forecast errors in IFS, ML Models, and high-resolution simulations
- Challenge 31 – PolyShell
- Challenge 32 – ECMWF Open Data Explorer
- Challenge 33 – Data Stores plug-in for GIS
- Challenge 34 – FireFlux: FRP-based emission calibration from small satellite constellations for emission estimation
- Challenge 35 – Developing a Machine Learning-Based weather/climate Index for Compound Event Prediction in Renewable Energy Systems
Selected and successfully completed projects will receive a €5,000 stipend!**
*Terms and Conditions apply. ECMWF funding is available for nationals and residents of ECMWF Member States and Co-operating States.
EU funding is available for nationals from European Union (EU) Member States, countries associated with EU’s Space Programme (currently Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom) and countries associated with EU’s Digital Europe Programme (currently Albania, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Türkiye, Moldova, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Ukraine).
**Successfully completed projects will be eligible to a stipend of €5,000 and if applicable, cloud credits from the European Weather Cloud or WEkEO.