The official first announcement for the 8th European Conference on Severe Storms (ECSS) was published. The ECSS2015 will take place in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, from 14 to 18 September 2015. As a sidemeeting of this conference, the next ESSL General Assembly (GA) will be hold on 13 September 2015, starting at 17:00. Updated information on the ECSS2015 can be found here.