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以下、EUROGEOのニュースレター（2014年10月）
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Geography News: Italy success, Geo World Record,
Awareness Week, Day of Geography, Survey
Latest Geo News -Welcome to the latest
newsletter from EUROGEO
The
newsletter brings excellent news about the restoration of Geography in Italian
schools. Recognition leaves the door open for other sectors of education to
lobby for its inclusion. Promoting geography is essential to a broad audience,
so we encourage you to join in the World Record Breaking Geography Event. You
can also find out about participating in Geography Awareness Week, GIS Day and
volunteering for the Day of Geography are really important annual events. Also
news on events, surveys and consultations.
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Geo Back In Italian Schools
Campaigning
against national cuts in Geography school allocation can bring positive
results. The decision to bring Geography back into technical schools represents
some recognition of the importance of the strategic value of the subject for
the development of skills needed in modern education.
Geography World Record
Are
you and your students involved yet? There are currently an more than 18,000
students already registered to take part across the whole world with schools
from different countries involved. Please help promote the event to get even
more schools involved.
Geography Awareness Week
Celebrate
and participate in Geography Awareness week 2014 (November 16-22) from National
Geographic
Volunteer - Day Of Geography
The
“Day of Geography” is looking for volunteers. It will be held on Monday,
November 17, 2014. This is the Monday of Geography Awareness Week. The goal of
Day of Geography is to raise awareness about the importance and relevance of
geography to the broader public. If you would like to support it, please
contact http://www.dayofgeography.com/
for more information. Twitter @dayofgeog
Digital Earth Society
EUROGEO,
as a European Centre of Excellence for digital earth and geo-media in education
is a member of the International Society for Digital Earth. Stories include
the announcement of the 5th Digital Earth Summit, under the theme Towards a
One-World Vision for the Blue Planet, from 6-10 November 2015 in Halifax,
Canada.
Members Present At GI Forum
EUROGEO
members attended the GI_Forum conference hosted by the University of Salzburg.
Luc Zwartjes, Treasurer spoke about developments in the I-Use Project
(Statistics in Education) and was part of a panel on future perspectives. Karl
Donert examined possible futures for geo-media in school education, based
on the SPACIT Project and led a discussion on funding opportunities.
GI_Forum
is a platform for dialogue among stakeholders in ongoing efforts to support the
creation of an informed GISociety. Full reviewed papers can be downloaded from
EC Consultation: The Cloud
EUROGEO
participated in the Public Consultation on Cloud Computing launched by DG
Connect (Unit E2). The aim was to
defining future research priorities in Cloud Computing and Software, ahead of
the H2020 ICT Work Programme 2016-17. We believe the focus should be more on
education rather than technology, researching the implications of the Cloud.
EUROGEO is a core partner in the School on the Cloud network project. A
post-consultation Workshop will be held in Brussels to discuss and validate the
views expressed by different actors during the consultation.
Disaster Management Survey
The Association of American Geographers
(AAG) are seeking responses from Disaster Management and Risk Reduction stakeholders
to a brief stakeholder survey. Responses are a critical part of improving
disaster response in the MENA region. Complete it online at completed online
at: http://eoe.aag.org/falcon-survey
Mountain R & D
Mountain
Research and Development, Vol 34, No 3 special issue on Gender and Sustainable
Development in Mountains is now published. Articles explore the different ways
in which women and men in mountain regions worldwide negotiate change,
development interventions, and migration, and how this influences their daily
lives.
Why, Where Matters?
EUROGEO
Members GeoEconomy have published "Why 'Where' Matters". This book
examines why geospatial perspectives and geography matters. The tag line is
"Practical Advice for Individuals, Communities, Companies and
Countries.".
GIS Day 2014
Have
you participated in a GIS Day before? If not why not get involved, or even organise an
event this year? The theme for 2014 is Discovering the World Through GIS, it
takes place on November 19, 2014. You can register your event at http://www.gisday.com/
or find out what is happening near you. GIS Day is part of Geography Awareness
Week.
Call: International Fieldwork
Call
for papers to create a symposium on ‘Current practices and challenges in
international geography field courses’ If you are interested in participating,
please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words to scientific exchange comitttee
of AJG (ajgsciex@goole.com).
