1. EUMETCAL AND NIMH Gergana Kozinarova Anastassia Stoycheva Lora Taseva 2010 Bulgaria joined EUMETCAL as a full member

2. EUMETCAL made a cyclonic trip trough the Balkans and came to Bulgaria

3. Many courses and weeks with practical use Benefits for us: New ideas for activities Have a big family-can always ask and get help

4. Benefits for EUMETCAL: Time to become not only users ?

5. Our Education/Training center The new Director The new activities: with students with colleagues from NIMH Regional Centers With tv- presentators and journalists

6. Feedback from the students and university colleagues More attention on problems not studied in the bachelor level More practical sessions The theoretical background not good enough for making real weather forecast More attention on the radar Information and its use in performing weather forecasts Practical sessions on long range weather forecasts suitable for group or individual work Discuss new types of instruments for meteorological measurement Practical lessons in the Dept. for Marine Forecasts

7. For 2011 meteorological practice Feedback from the students Feedback from Sofia University colleagues Feedback from the NIMH colleagues Improvements of the practice program: -Train the colleagues from the University -Use interesting cases -Concentrate on the output of one global/regional NWP model

8. Meteorological education for non meteorologists: TV presentators Journalists Users Forecasters predict -40… Nobody can predict -30! Why? How?

9. THANKS