The summer school of the international Baltic Earth research network took place from August 26 to September 2, 2024. This year, 18 students from all over the Baltic Sea region came to the field station of the Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre on the Swedish island of Askö. In addition to general Baltic Sea knowledge, the school's programme focused on climate change in the region and its consequences. Researchers from the IOW, the Helmholtz Centre Hereon and the Swedish Södertörn University jointly designed the summer school and held the courses on the island.

The Askö Research Station, where the Summer School has been jointly organised since 2005 by Markus Meier, Baltic Sea climate expert at the IOW, and Markus Reckerman, head of the international Baltic Earth Secretariat, is located in the Swedish archipelago. It is an ideal place to enjoy learning and networking in an international and interdisciplinary group of young people. Primarily aimed at Master's students of marine sciences, the programme uses an across-the-board earth system approach to learn how the climate of the Baltic Sea region is changing and how this can be researched. As in the previous years, lectures, seminars and practical exercises provided knowledge about fundamental climate-relevant processes in the atmosphere, in the ocean, in sea ice and on the land surface, as well as methods of climate modelling and statistical analysis of long-term data series. The programme was rounded off by a group project over the entire week, in which the students could apply and consolidate their newly acquired knowledge.