diff --git a/video_prediction_tools/HPC_scripts/train_model_era5_template.sh b/video_prediction_tools/HPC_scripts/train_model_era5_template.sh
index e7c6525a197a7acb5cca927cd0280c3628b2c4f9..19af1297cae1869d4d88cf7748fee71c4c4216d4 100644
--- a/video_prediction_tools/HPC_scripts/train_model_era5_template.sh
+++ b/video_prediction_tools/HPC_scripts/train_model_era5_template.sh
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ destination_dir=/p/project/deepacf/deeprain/video_prediction_shared_folder/model
 # valid identifiers for model-argument are: convLSTM, savp, mcnet and vae
 model=convLSTM
 model_hparams=../hparams/era5/${model}/model_hparams.json
-destination_dir=${destination_dir}/${model}/"$(date +"%Y%m%dT%H%M")_"$USER"/"
+destination_dir_full=${destination_dir}/${model}/"$(date +"%Y%m%dT%H%M")_"$USER"/"
 
 # run training
-srun python ../main_scripts/main_train_models.py --input_dir  ${source_dir}/tfrecords/ --dataset era5  --model ${model} --model_hparams_dict ${model_hparams} --output_dir ${destination_dir}/
+srun python ../main_scripts/main_train_models.py --input_dir  ${source_dir}/tfrecords/ --dataset era5  --model ${model} --model_hparams_dict ${model_hparams} --output_dir ${destination_dir_full}/