EUROGEO News
Standing Up for Geography
A number of European countries are piloting reducing timetable time for Geography in schools. EUROGEO has begun actively campaigning against these proposed reforms. If you are concerned about the state of geography in your country, please email eurogeomail@yahoo.com
EUROGEO Statutes
A number of European countries are piloting reducing timetable time for Geography in schools. EUROGEO has begun actively campaigning against these proposed reforms. If you are concerned about the state of geography in your country, please email eurogeomail@yahoo.com
European Geography Journal to be launched
A small EUROGEO group has been meeting with the goal to set up a new international journal, the European Journal of Geography. We plan to launch the first edition in late 2009. If you would like to join the editorial team, please contact:koutsop@survey.ntua.gr
Articles should be sent by email to: eurogeomail@yahoo.com
EUROGEO Presidium Elections
At the last meeting of EUROGEO, members unanimously elected a new Board (Presidium).
President: Karl Donert (UK)
Secretary General: Harry Rogge (NL)
Treasurer: Luc Zwartjes
Vice Presidents: Yilmaz Ari (TR), Maria Attard (MT), Gerry O'Reilly (IE), Daniela Schmenick (DE)
One member was co-opted to the Presidium to represent young geographers: Salman Qureshi (AT)
Statutes
General Meeting minutes
EUROGEO Conferences
Proceedings from the 2009 joint conference with HERODOT with the theme "Geographical Diversity" are available now
EUROGEO will hold its next Conference in Athens, Greece in September 2011. To find out more.
Web site
EUROGEO has moved its site to a new Web domain name. Please visit www.eurogeography.eu to find out more
Our email has also changed to eurogeomail@yahoo.com
Council of Europe
EUROGEO has been present at the Council of Europe NGO meeting which was held at the start of May. Items to be discussed include environment issues and european citizenship. More details will follow on the Web site
Bechmarking Geography
Benchmark statements are available for Geography in Higher Education for consultation, and further dissemination. Documents: http://www.herodot.net/geography-benchmark.html. The debate at: http://groups.google.com/group/herodot-net
GeoCube HERODOT with EUROGEO promoted the Geo-Cube at a number of events over the summer. Geocube provides a multimedia Web site aimed to help the promotion of what geography is and what geographers do. Please contact Karl Donert if you would be interested in translating the Geo-cube into your language. |
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Joining EUROGEO
EUROGEO has three categories of membership.
- Individual members Membership fee 40 euros
- Retirees and young members - Membership fee 25 euros
- Organisation members - associations and organisations involved in geography or geographical education at local, national, regional or European level. Membership fee 100 euros
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.
What is EUROGEO?
EUROGEO as an association was set up in 1979 with strong support from the European Commission. Members from national associations 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