In 2026, SYMET-15 will be held under the theme “Transforming Education and Training to Build Workforces for Future-Ready Weather, Climate and Water Services”. For the first time, it will be organized as part of an integrated week of events that will also include the fourth Plenary Meeting of the Consortium of WMO Education and Training Collaborating Partners (CONECT-4), and the Meeting of Directors of WMO RTCs.
The Joint WMO Education, Training and Capacity Development Event will be held in a hybrid format, with participants able to join in person in Nanjing, China, or online, from 7 to 11 December 2026.
The Symposium on Education and Training (SYMET) is organized by the WMO Education and Training Office once every four years to assist the international community in meeting current meteorological and hydrological education and training challenges and those that are foreseen to arise over the next five to ten years.
This year, the theme of SYMET will be “Education and Training in a Period of Rapid Change”, chosen to emphasize the challenges we all face in confronting the rapidly progressing technology, service delivery expectations, globalization of the meteorological enterprise, growth in urban environments, and impacts of climate change, among others.
Registration to participate in SYMET-14 is now closed. If you have any queries, please contact tra@wmo.int
As a part of its Education and Training Programme, WMO organizes, once every four years, a worldwide Symposium on Education and Training (SYMET), which is normally attended by more than 100 educational experts and managers, professors, directors of WMO Regional Training Centres (RTCs), instructors from training units of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), and other institutes involved in meteorological, hydrological and climatological education and training. At the kind invitation of the Government of France, the SYMET-XII will be held from 2 to 6 September 2013 in Météo-France, Toulouse, France. The theme of the Symposium is "Training with a Purpose".