Introduction: Five years of Earth sciences and art at the EGU General Assembly (2015-2019)

The term SciArt (Science & Art) refers to all the activities involving collaboration between scientists and artists, and the initial festival was the result of an intense amount of work, co-ordinated by the SciArt project leader Adriaan Eeckels, the curator Freddy Paul Grunert, the head of the Scientific Development Unit at the JRC Jutta Thielen-del Pozo, the geoscientist Francesco Mugnai, and the architect Cristina Fiordimela. [...]the festival collected all the works in an exhibition at the JRC, and, as a result of this, several of the participants have since collaborated in convening the Earth sciences and art sessions at the EGU General Assembly. [...]we hope that the development of a unified culture will help to involve everybody in a deeper knowledge of the Earth and its delicate and complex mechanisms, and that by doing so we are able to preserve our planet for future generations.