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Mixtures, one of the EMS Topical Activity Groups (TAG), announces its conference "Mixtures: Modeling, analysis and computing" to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from February 5-7, 2025.

Registration is now open for the International Congress of Mathematicians 2026, to be held in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA), from 23 to 30 July 2026.

The Ostrowski Foundation has opened nominations for the 2025 Ostrowski Prize, which recognizes outstanding achievements in pure mathematics and the foundations of numerical mathematics.

The EMS Committee for Developing Countries (CDC) has implemented Good Grants as its new application portal for its funding opportunities.

The seventh edition of the International Mathematical Modeling Contest (CMM-IMI 2024), organized by the Interdisciplinary Mathematics Institute (IMI) and supported by the Vice-Rectorates for Students and for Research and Transfer of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), along with SeMA, SEIO, MathWorks, and math-in, concluded with remarkable achievements. Students from 30 universities across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Spain participated in this prestigious event, showcasing their mathematical modeling skills.

In Croatia, autumn is lately the time for fun with maths. In October, the Mathematics Street Festival in Zagreb, the capital, and nearby Zaprešić surprises streetwalkers by fun mathematical games and involves them in the various activities. On the first Thursday of December, the Maths Night festival is held all over Croatia, in kindergartens, schools of all levels and at universities. Both events are organised under the auspices of the Croatian Mathematical Society, and here are the fresh reports on them for this year!

zbMATH Open, the world's most comprehensive and longest-running abstracting and reviewing service in mathematics, continues to expand its features in 2024. As a collaborative effort between FIZ Karlsruhe, the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the platform is set to become a crucial hub in the global network of mathematics information.

The Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics (SeMA) has undergone significant changes in its Executive Council throughout 2024, welcoming several new members to key positions.

The EMS Young Academy (EMYA) is delighted to announce the selection of 20 new members who will serve as the third cohort from 2025 to 2028, bringing the total membership to 80 young mathematicians from across Europe.

The Mathematical Research Data Initiative (MaRDI) is a consortium based in Germany working to develop infrastructure for mathematical research data. Its mission is to establish standards for verified data, reproducible workflows, and accessible services to support the global mathematical community. As one of the international partners, the EMS joins other organizations in contributing to MaRDI's efforts to promote open and standardized data practices in mathematical research.