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EUROGEO E-Newsletter: October 2011 |
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EUROGEO 2011 Annual Meeting and Conference
More than 120 geographers from 23 countries participated in the 2011 conference of EUROGEO held at the “Titania Hotel” in Athens, Greece, June 2 - 5, 2011.
Sessions were very lively with a host of interesting presentations and considerable debate. The presentations are available from conference Web site. Special sessions were held of the IGU Mediterranean Special Interest Group (presentations) and the digital-earth.eu Comenius Project (presentations).
A new EUROGEO Presodium was elected at the Annual General Meeting and reports from the President, Secretary General and Treasurer were approved. More details
The conference dinner was a great success with local entertainment and the awarding of certificates. Some conference photos are available here. |
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Third iGuess GIS training wokshop - EC grants available
EUROGEO will host a one-week Comenius training seminar for Geography teachers and lecturers in Dublin May 29-June 5 2012. This follows up successful courses in Geel, Belgium and Athens, Greece. The EC has accredited the course which will allow teachers and teacher educators to apply for Comenius grants to cover the course fees and travel/subsistence costs.
The course is about spatial thinking and the use of GIS in llearning and teaching. Participants will learn about the practical and pedagogical uses of ArcGIS in schools and in teaching geography.
The course will be based on the very successful iGuess Project - Integrating GIS in secondary education in several subjects. Further information
If you want to participate:
a) apply for the course - application form
and once your place is reserved
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Contact your Comenius National Agency and apply for a Comenius grant
Course reference number "BE-2012-196-001"
Find out how to apply for grants: http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/
Links: iGuess Project Web site - Read more about iGuess - iGuess Athens Comenius course - iGuess course photos |
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Call for Papers: the European Journal of Geography
You may submit original artiles online for publication in the European Journal of Geography. Register at http://www.eurogeographyjournal.eu/
The first issue of the European Journal of Geography has been published at: http://www.eurogeographyjournal.eu/ |
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Council of Europe News
LATEST: EUROGEO Secretary General Harry Rogge elected Vice President of Council of Europe Education and Culture Committee
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Joining EUROGEO
EUROGEO has four categories of membership.
New EUROGEO members are allowed to select one FREE publication from the publications list (while stocks last).
Membership gives you access to the EUROGEO community, you will receive 6 newsletters a year, reductions on publications and reduced conference fees. |
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What is EUROGEO?
EUROGEO as an association was set up in 1979 with strong support from the European Commission. Members from national association formed a European association to represent the viewsd and opinions of geographers in different European countries to the EU . The assoiciation has had participatory status at the Council of Europe sonce 1989. EUROGEO has established its legal home in Belgium as an International not-for-profit organisation. If you would like to know more please contact luc.zwartjes@skynet.be
Meet the Board of EUROGEO
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| Geographical News Stories And Research |
| physical and hazards - climate - environment - human |
Call to action from the World Mountain Summit 2011, Lucerne (Switzerland),
“If the Earth was one country, would we accept such pollution? If the Earth was one country, would we accept such inequalities? If the Earth was our country: that is the Rio spirit.” Brice Lalonde, former Minister for Environment in France and Executive Coordinator for Rio+20.
This inspired the two-day discussions at the Lucerne World Mountain Conference. As shown in a number of regional reports ranging from the Andes to the Hindu-Kush-Himalaya, presented at the Conference, mountains fueled the debate in all the relevant sectors of Rio+20: water, energy, food security, planet monitoring, social issues (with employment, education and culture), risk preparedness. The Call for Action seeks to bring a conjunct strong message to Rio+20 in June 2012. Read more at http://mountainslucerne2011.mtnforum.org/
- Growing need for geospatial professionals. GIS to become a standard way of doing business http://t.co/xx7bYQUV
- Nobel prize winner Wangari Maathai dies: World mourns Kenyan environmental, human rights activist http://t.co/6rNm3DCD
- What should pupils learn about the geography of the EU? Concern over brainwashing from MEP http://bit.ly/nK1hsr
Did you know?
Physical Geography and Hazards
- BBC News - Japan six months after tsunami: http://bbc.in/nQ9WoC
- Scientists on trial for failing to predict 2009 earthquake. http://ow.ly/6zmMO
- Nepal: Himalayan Glaciers ‘Retreating Substantially, Most Himalayan glaciers in Bhutan, China, India and Nepal are retreating. http://bit.ly/nuqe5r
- New Canada-Wide Project To Study Permafrost, a $4-million project, called Arctic Development and Adaptation to Permafrost in Transition or ADAPT, will involve 10 universities, 15 laboratories and many collaborators in Canada and abroad. http://bit.ly/r3SXcR
- New record minimum for Arctic sea ice extent reported: According to the National Snow and Ice Data Centre http://t.co/lZS5MUU7
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Climate
Arctic Sea Ice Is Melting At Its Fastest Pace In Almost 40 Years
Arctic sea ice has melted to a level not recorded since satellite observations started in 1972 – and almost certainly not experienced for at least 8,000 years, say polar scientists. Daily satellite sea-ice maps released by Bremen university physicists show that with a week's more melt expected this year, the floating ice in the Arctic covered an area of 4.24 million square kilometers on 8 September. The previous one-day minimum was 4.27m sq km on 17 September 2007. Read more: http://bit.ly/oPUFFS
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Environment
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Human and Economic Geography
China: Development Will Follow Eco-Civilization
Southwest China's Guizhou province will be committed in developing ecological civilization while boosting industrialization at the same time, a government official said Saturday. Guizhou will also accelerate development in consolidating the result and improve residents' living by ensuring the achievements already acquired. http://bit.ly/mTRAPk
Unconventional ecosystems approaches needed for rural poor to fight poverty: WRI report suggests
According to the 254-page report on the health of the world’s environment, conventional models for poverty reduction and economic growth may have worked well for urban populations but they have done little to help the rural poor who make up around 75% of the nearly 3 billion people who live on less than two dollars a day. http://bit.ly/qM7ema
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| European News |
2012 will be European Year of active ageing http://www.theparliament.com/digimag/issue335
EU pressed to lead Rio+20 Earth Summit
The European Parliament has called on the EU to take the lead in preparing global green actions for the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit next year. Billions in EU aid is spent on ill-defined green agro-projects, say auditors http://bit.ly/qDAqIv
The Alpine Region as a macro-region?
The EU already has a macro-region strategy for the Danube Region and the Baltic Sea. So why not also for the Alpine Region? At the beginning of July, the Arge Alp Working Group advocated a resolution calling for a "macro-region for the Alps" http://bit.ly/qd03kL
Town twinning has been a "very important" reconciliation tool in Europe since world war two, a conference of regional and local politicians has heard http://bit.ly/ne1vEB
More than a third of EU agro-environmental aid is given to farms that have no ecological problems on site or within a 10-km range, a study carried out by the European Court of Auditors shows. http://euobserver.com/19/113662
EU needs to scale up technological development
Europe needs to create a more efficient innovation model, according to panellists at the European Innovation Summit in Brussels on 11 October. The EU should boost the scale of its technological development and demonstration activities, said Gernot Klotz, executive director research and innovation at the European chemical industry’s lobby Cefic. This requires the commitment of industry to exploit research results on European territory, Klotz said. He added that the chemical industry was prepared to play a “driving role” in public-private partnerships in the next EU research funding programme Horizon 2020. http://bit.ly/lwgDXf
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| Geo-Resources |
- Handbook for intercultural and inter-institutional training http://bit.ly/njZPPW
- UNESCO | Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future | Module 7: Citizenship education http://fb.me/197iprj6F
- Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences (SWB)--a double-blind, peer-reviewed online journal devoted to interdisciplinary explorations of human rights. Special Issue on "Human Rights Education, Service-Learning, and Civic Engagement" (SWB, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2011), http://societieswithoutborders.org
- TransEcoNet News includes articles on documentary films about people and landscapes in Central European border regions, fields reports, the Ecological Continuum Initiative, publications on European ecological networks and projects http://bit.ly/qYy5Jj
- Online dictionary of physical and human geography terms http://t.co/e8HfE8z1
- List of free GIS datasets http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/
- BBC: an animated history of European map making http://bbc.in/9t9h1p
- ICT Geography resources reviewed http://t.co/KqpWqN69
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| Downloadable articles - publications |
- Spatial thinking conference STIGS2011 proceedings, papers to download http://bit.ly/nwTijH
- Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences (SWB)--a double-blind, peer-reviewed online journal devoted to interdisciplinary explorations of human rights. Special Issue on "Human Rights Education, Service-Learning, and Civic Engagement" (SWB, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2011 http://www.societieswithoutborders.org
- Mountain Research and Development (v 31.3) available online, with open access http://www.bioone.org/toc/mred/31/3
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| Fellowships, Tenders and Grants |
Fellowships
Shuttleworth Foundation
Fellowships are aimed at those who have a plan for social change through innovation in the areas of education and technology. The foundation will provide technological, financial and legal support. Grants consist of the equivalent of a year’s salary, a contribution towards expenses and a travel allowance.
Award amount max: Not specified Closing date: 01 Nov 2011 http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/funding/fellowship-programme/
Tenders
Grants - open calls
Grants by deadline
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Stanley Rand Fellowship Program (deadlines: May 15, August 15 and November 15). Support is provided for short-term research in the tropics focused on animal behavior, natural history, evolutionary biology, plant and animal ecology and environmental monitoring. http://www.stri.si.edu/english/education_fellowships/fellowships/index.php |
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Call for proposals Lifelong Learning Programme - submission on various dates, many February 2nd but depending on Action http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc848_en.htm and http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc1943_en.htm |
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Grants to attend ESF research conference: Energy Landscapes, 16-21 July 2012, Obergurgl, Austria - apply by April 2012 http://bit.ly/pkLTz2 |
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Cooperation projects with third countries EACEA
Grants support cooperation projects aimed at cultural exchanges between the countries taking part in the programme and selected third countries. Funding is worth between €50,000 and €200,000 over a maximum of 24 months. Award amount max: €200,000 Closing date: 03 May 2012 http://bit.ly/fnayPm |
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Geographical Association International Initiatives Fund up to £1000 grant deadline 31August http://trunc.it/ |
| open calls |
Europe for Citizens There are a range of different actions in this funding stream. Visit the following website for more information, including deadlines and dates: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/citizenship/index_en.php
COST: open call for research network funding http://www.cost.esf.org/participate/open_call |
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| Call for Papers |
- The Journal of Sustainability Education (http://www.jsedimensions.org/wordpress/) is seeking contributions on The Geography of Sustainability that address emerging binaries that guide understanding and education about sustainability: North versus South, natural versus cultural, carbon-based versus electron-based, urban versus rural, traditional versus modern. Submission deadline is January 1 2012, for the publication in the March 2012 issue. For details on prospective manuscripts, contact the Guest Editor of this special issue of JSE, Fausto O. Sarmiento: fsarmien@uga.edu, http://www.journalofsustainabilityeducation.org/
- The European Educational Research Journal (www.wwwords.co.uk/EERJ) would like to produce a special issue on the processes of curriculum reform in European education systems in 2012. Papers invited on the area, the European curriculum: restructuring and renewal
- The International HETL Review at http://hetl.org is now accepting article submissions for 2012. See http://hetl.org/introduction-submissions/ for submission requirements. Special theme for 2011-2012: University 2.0.
- Journal of Agriculture and Biological Sciences (JABS) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that will be published monthly by Global Research Journals http://www.globalresearchjournals.org/?a=journal&id=jabs).JABS
- International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS) http://www.ijhssnet.com
- The new Journal of BioUrbanism (JBU), a peer-reviewed international online journal of architecture, planning, and built environment studies, http://www.biourbanism.org
- Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology
http://www.investigacion-psicopedagogica.org/revista/new/english/index.php
- Journal of Global Studies in Education http://bit.ly/k3ZbaG
- RIGEO: issue on distance education in geography: http://www.rigeo.org
- European Journal of Geography seeking papers for the spring 2012 issue http://www.eurogeographyjournal.eu/
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| Geographical Events |
2011 and 2012 events and conferences are located on the main EUROGEO Web site: Click here |
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