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European Galaxy Days (EGD)

European Galaxy Days meeting in Autumn 2025

  • Date: October 1, 2025
  • Location: Freiburg, Germany
  • Contact: contact@usegalaxy.eu

The European Galaxy Days will be held from the 1st to 3rd of October 2025 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. This 3-day meeting will be similar to the events we held in 2023, 2022, 2018, 2016, 2014, and 2012. The first two days will give an overview of the current state of the Galaxy framework and community with several talks, demonstrations, and Birds of a Feather sessions. As part of a CoFest, the third day offer the opportunity to continue the discussions, to code and hack as well as enjoy the Galaxy community.

We are holding 3 events in the same week:

  • The ELIXIR Galaxy Community Face-to-face (F2F) meeting,
  • The EuroScienceGateway project closure meeting,
  • The European Galaxy Days (EGD) meeting.

Contributing

Galaxy is powered by the people who use, develop, and administrate it, regardless of their community. We invite you to contribute and enrich our meeting through different activities such as talks, demos, posters, and Birds-of-a-feather meetings (BoFs). If you have something to share or talk about, we give you a slot in the schedule.

Registration

Registration is free. We recommend to register as soon as possible to secure your spot for different events as well as helping us to organize the event better. The traveling, accommodation, and subsistence expenses will be partially covered by the organizers for a limited number of ELIXIR participants. The organizers will contact you for further clarification.

Register now

Schedule

The schedule of the meeting will be posted here, as soon as we have the list of participants and speakers.

Venue

Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Institute for Informatics
Georges-Köhler-Allee, 101
79110 Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany

Logistics

Getting to Freiburg

Freiburg can be easily reached by train with the ICE from the North (via Frankfurt and Karlsruhe) and the South (via Basel) Deutsche Bahn.

How to reach Freiburg from Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg airport (EuroAirport)?

  • Option 1: Use the French/German exit and take the airport shuttle bus to Freiburg main station (Hauptbahnhof).
  • Option 2: Use the Swiss exit and take the local bus (#50) to the train station in Basel and from there take a train to Freiburg.

How to reach the venue from Freiburg Hauptbahnhof?

  • Option 1: Local train; Take the Breisgau S-Bahn from Hauptbahnhof Freiburg to Gottenheim/Breisach towards "Freiburg Messe/Universität".
  • Option 2: Tram 4 direction "Messe"; Exit at the stop "Technische Fakultät" (see tram plan).

The mobile app of the local public transport company bwegt can also be very helpful to check the schedule of the trains and buses.

Tram tickets for local transport

Here you can find the types of tram tickets that VAG offers. The 2x4 rides ticket and the day pass are convenient options for several days and/or passengers.

Accomodation

We are going to organize accomodation options in Freiburg. The information will be announced here, after we have more information.

Event rules and regulations

Code of Conduct

The European Galaxy Days will abide the Galaxy Project Code of Conduct. Please, make sure that you read it before the event.

Questions?

If you want to present, help, have suggestions or questions, please get in touch with us. Simply contact:

Armin Dadras (dadras@informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Hans-Rudolf Hotz (hrhotz@googlemail.com)
Björn Grüning (bjoern.gruening@gmail.com)