In The News
This month there are articles on the work being undertaken preparing the COP21 Climate Change conference, courses for teachers, a FOSS4G development, EuroEnviro, Digital Earth Society competitions, Geo for All and Open Education Week, NASA WorldWind Challenge and hundreds of other stories.
Get Human Rights In Climate Change Agreement
Statistics Course For Educators
EUROGEO is a partner in the EU funded
I-Use Project. I-Use developed ready made lesson materials and a toolbox for educators to easily create their own statistics learning activities. The project will hold an in service teacher training course in Copenhagen, 7-10 September 2015 If you would like to attend, all information is available at
http://i-use.eu/resources/courses.html European educators can apply for Erasmus + KA1 grants from the European Commission to attend.
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FOSS4G Environmental Management
EUROGEO Members Gap Consult supporting the Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation have developed a web-based GIS platform that provides public access to spatial information for five areas in Bulgaria. The platform open and free to use by citizens, NGOs, institutions and businesses allowing the use of available data for monitoring and advocacy for the sustainable development of the regions.
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ISDE Young Scientist Competitions
the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) is organising two competitions in 2015, an ISDE
Video Competition for Young People and a
Travel Award for young scientists, for the best paper of the
9th Symposium of ISDE in Halifax, Canada. EUROGEO has been a member of ISDE through its digital-earth.eu project.
Geo For All And Open Education Week
Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015) is an annual opportunity to raise awareness about open education and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. The
Geo for All initiative welcomes nominations for the "Geo for All - Open Education Award 2015". The deadline is february 28th
http://www.osgeo.org/node/1501. EUROGEO is a member of Gep for All.
EuroEnviro 2015
EuroEnviro is an international student symposium organized by and for students from all over Europe. The symposium gives young students the possibility to share and discuss their knowledge with students from a big variety of different fields (Economy, biology, geography, politics and many more), while also exploring the country in which the event is hosted. The next EuroEnviro will be held in May 2015 in Gothenborg, Sweden (
http://www.euroenviro.org/). The theme of the symposium is 'catalysts of change'.
NASA WorldWind Challenge
The third edition of the NASA Worldwind Europa challenge aims to inspire ideas for building great applications that serve the INSPIRE Directive and uses NASA’s open source virtual globe technology World Wind. Details at
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
Young Planners Workshop
Congress Local Regional Authorities
SPACIT Courses Available
EUROGEO was a partner in the SPACIT (education for spatial citizenship) project, coordinated by the Department of Geo-Informatics of the University of Salzburg. The concept of spatial citizenship was developed for secondary teaching and in-service training to combine geography, political education and Web 2.0 technologies. The goal was to create online and F2F courses to equip teachers with the relevant competencies necessary through the everyday use of geo-media technologies. The course can be downloaded from the project Web site.
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Get Why, Where Matters?
Today’s economy is driven by and dependent on geographic information according to Drs. Bob Ryerson and Stan Aronoff, the authors “Why ‘Where’ Matters”. The EUROGEO Members make links with the history of the development of geographic tools and underline the importance of geo-information in real-world examplesThis book illustrates why geospatial perspectives and geography matters.
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Geo In The News
This newsletter brings you access to a collection of February 2015 geo-news from social media, newspapers and latest research. There are items on Climate, Environment, Human, Economic and Physical Geography.. The news also includes free publications to download and teaching and larding resources.
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EUROGEO Conference 2015
"Communicating Geography: serving our world" 21-22 May 2015 The 2015 EUROGEO Annual Meeting and Conference will be organised in conjunction with and hosted by the Turkish Association of Geographers (TAG), in Ankara on 21-22 May 2015. An optional field excursion to Cappadocia will take place all day on 23 May 2015. Call for sessions and abstracts published.
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Communicating Geography
Call for abstracts We invite contributors from all areas of the discipline and related subjects to submit abstracts for oral presentations, hands-on workshops and posters at our 2015 Annual meeting. The conference theme is "Communicating Geography: serving our world", though abstracts relating to other areas will also be welcome.
Deadlines: Sessions (by February 1st 2015) Paper, Poster and Workshop Abstracts March 12th 2015 See more at:
http://www.eurogeography.eu/2015-meeting-and-conference/ Early bird rate ends March 12th 2015
EJG Issue 3: Free Download
Issue 3 of the European Journal of Geography is
free to download. The Journal now on Scopus, is based on the European Association of Geographers’ goal to make European Geography a worldwide reference and standard. The latest issue contains seven articles on historical analysis, wildfire risk assessment, location analysis, social perception, communicating climate change, catchment approaches and Belgrade tourism.
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