The Opening Ceremony of the 2016 IYGU

2月2日にドイツのJena で開かれる IYGU Opening Event の情報です。
このイベントはオープンで、IGU, ICSU, ISSC, CIPSH, Future Earthなど
の国際学術団体やESRIをはじめとするスポンサー企業の代表も参加し
ます。

日本国内のIYGU推進体制を早急に構築しなければなりません。ご支
援ご協力を宜しくお願いいたします。

氷見山

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Dear all,

Please find attached the program of the IYGU Opening Ceremony at the Jena 
Volkshaus on February 2.

Prof. Dr. Klaus Toepfer, a patron of IYGU, will give the opening address on 
“Neuen Milliarden Menschen im Anthropozän. Herausforderungen für das 
International Year of Global Understanding.” I’m very thankful to Klaus 
Toepfer for making this possible, despite his very busy schedule, and his 
imminent high-ranked appointments at the UN in New York.

The welcome addresses include speeches by the President of the 
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, the Thuringian Minister of Economy and 
Science, the president of the International Geographical Union, the 
representatives of the International Science Councils CIPSH, ISSC, and ICSU, 
as well as by the Executive Director of Future Earth. The keynote 
presentations cover all of the main elements: education, (natural, social, 
and human) sciences, and information.

The press release for German-speaking areas was sent out this morning. 
Please find the English translation attached. It would be great if you 
provide one for your language community and disseminate it.

There will be full broadcast coverage of the opening ceremony, which will be 
made available to all the Regional Action Centers via the IYGU’s YouTube 
channel.

The number of Regional Actions Centers is growing constantly. The newest 
partners are: Ljubljana, Belgrade, Zagreb, Athens, Santiago de Compostela, 
Minira, Taipei, and Mexico. Negotiations have just started with Havana, San 
José/Costa Rica, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Qatar, and Hong Kong. 
Others will follow. We are fast approaching the anticipated number of about 
50 RACs.

The most recent news: Thanks to Luiz Oosterbeek, IYGU gained a new patron 
this morning, namely José Ramos Horta, who received the Nobel Prize for 
Peace in 1996 for his work towards a just and peaceful solution for the 
conflict in East Timor. Currently Mr. Ramos-Horta is the United Nations' 
special representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated 
Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS).

I’m looking forward seeing the ones that could make it next Tuesday at 
Opening Ceremony, and to continued cooperation with all of you.

With very best wishes,

Benno

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Program IYGU
Opening ceremony
IYGU PR
ドイツ語の案内

IYGU//Social Media

Benno Werlen さんからです。Facebook, Twitter, YouTube を通してIYGU
の情報にアクセスすることができるようになりました。 周知を宜しくお願いいた
します。詳細は以下をご覧ください。

氷見山

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Dear all,

I’m glad to let you know that from now on IYGU is also present on the main 
Social Media platforms: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. I would like to 
kindly ask your help to spread and use this important tools of these days.

Our FACEBOOK page you can find at: https://www.facebook.com/IYGU2016/

Suggestions and materials are really welcome. With this platform we can also 
announce all of our events during the Year. The Opening Ceremony of IYGU 
Event’s Page you can find at: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/810221332440020/

To access all the content of Facebook you must have a Facebook account. Here 
are the simple steps to create a Facebook account:
https://www.facebook.com/help/188157731232424

Our TWITTER page you can find at: https://twitter.com/iygu2016
To access all our “tweets” on Twitter, it is not obligatory to have a 
Twitter account, but to interact on the platform you must have one. To 
create a Twitter account just follow these simple steps: 
https://support.twitter.com/articles/100990?lang=en

Our videos on YouTube are open for all. We have already uploaded the videos 
of the Declaration of the International Year of Global Understanding on the 
World Social Science Forum in Durban, September 13, 2015, as well as an 
Interview with me concerning the IYGU at a German Radio Station. These are 
the following links for the videos:


https://youtu.be/MnNhJCYlIdg
https://youtu.be/lwpKaBwwHpY
https://youtu.be/xhK_z5s46BY
https://youtu.be/jBoHXGlEz44
https://youtu.be/EjLeOw8wiys

Please feel free to spread these links and also give us ideas and materials 
to keep all our social media pages updated!


For the IYGU Regional Actions Centers around the world it may be an 
interesting way of communicating about IYGU with the regional partners. 
Therefore it would great if you could put the link on your website as soon 
it will be ready. The fist one set online  is the one of the RAC for Western 
Europe and can be found under http://www.entendimentoglobal.ipt.pt/

The definitive program of the opening ceremony on Feb 2 will be ready 
shortly.


With very best wishes,


Benno

ネット中継/１月９日（土）１３時：学術フォーラム「防災学術連携体の設立と東日本大震災の総合的対応の継承」

日本地理学会災害対応委員の宇根先生からです。
本日1時から学術会議で学術フォーラム「防災学術連携体の設立と
東日本大震災の総合的対応の継承」が開催されます。詳しくは、
http://www.scj.go.jp/ja/event/pdf2/218-s-0109.pdf　をご覧ください。

氷見山

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日本地理学会災害対応委員の宇根です。
（クロスポストご容赦ください．）

直前のご案内になり申し訳ありません。

日本地理学会は、1月9日に設立される「防災学術連携体」に
参加することとなりました。

防災学術連携体は、自然災害の軽減に学界をあげて備えるため、
47の学会が結集し、日本学術会議と連携して設立する組織です。

地理学がこれまであまり関わりを持っていなかった分野の学会と
防災をテーマに広く情報交流や連携をとっていくことができます。

設立を記念して1月9日13時より日本学術会議講堂で開催される
標記学術フォーラムでは、参加する47学会すべての代表が
各学会の取組についての発表を行います。日本地理学会からは
熊木災害対応委員長が発表を行います。

防災学術連携体のホームページ
http://www.janet-dr.com/
では、当日の様子がネット中継されるほか、プログラム、配布冊子も
掲載しております。どうぞご閲覧下さい。

[転載] 2016年のIYGUとIGCについて

IGU事務局長のMeadows 先生からの年頭の挨拶です。特にIYGUと
8月に北京で開催される国際地理学会議(IGC)について書かれてい
ます。

なおIYGUは、2月2日にドイツのJenaで大規模な旗揚げの大会が開
催されます。

氷見山

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Dear IGU Colleagues


I bring you greetings and best wishes for the coming year from the International Geographical Union.  
This is a landmark year for us; under the leadership of Professor Benno Werlen, 2016 has been

proclaimed the International Year of Global Understanding, an  IGU initiative. The International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) addresses the ways in which we inhabit an increasingly globalized world. How do we transform nature? How do we build new social and political relationships for the emerging global reality? Societies and cultures determine the ways we live with and shape nature. They influence how we perceive the global consequences of our everyday actions. We need to understand what our daily actions mean for the world as a whole in order to overcome global challenges. For more information, see: www.global-understanding.info            

　This year is also a Congress year, the 33rd International Geographical Congress takes place in Beijing, China, from 21st - 25th August 2016.  We hope to see many of you at our showcase event for 2016.  More information available at: www.igc2016.org    

　I hope you all have a productive, peaceful and, above all, healthy 2016.

　
Kind regards

　
Mike Meadows