International Projects

Since 1999 EUROGEO has turned its attention to modern, innovative formats for its work. It has done this by considering the implications of using the Internet, multimedia and communications technologies. This page provides information on currrent and recent projects the association has been involved in.

   

Digitalearth. eu

EUROGEO is a core partner of the new digital-earth.eu Comenius Network.

The aim to create a network of learning and teaching GI (geomedia) at school and in teacher training. Read more

GI Forum 2012 presentations

If you would like to join the initiative find out more

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SPACIT (Spatial Citizenship) Project

The SPACIT Project will develop teacher training materials and organise courses for teachers on the theme of Spatial Citizenship.

 

SPACIT project information - An introduction to Spatial Citizenship.- presentation Spatial Citizenship educationt

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PIRI REIS: Network

A Leonardo Transfer of Innovation project led by Dicle University, Turkey. PIRI-REIS seeks to capitalise on the lessons learned from the HERODOT Thematic Network for Geography in higher education and transfer them into the Turkish education system through the training of geographers. It eill create a new Turkish Geographical Association and books to improve the quuality of learning and teaching Geography at universities in Turkey- find out more - Web site

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Historiana
EUROGEO is a partner in the project "Historiana" coordinated by EUROCLIO (European Association of History Educators) and the Netherlands Institute for Heritage, in which an online, interactive, multimedia tool will be developed on the learning and teaching of common themes in history and heritage.

More information Web site www.historiana.eu

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iGuess 2
iGuess2 will develop a training course to promote GIS in several subjects. The project updates course materials to ArcGIS version 10.1 and introduces the Web application ArcGIS Online and the integration of freely available data in GIS. Web site http://www.iguess.eu

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I-USE Project
I-USE is a three-year Comenius European project coordinated by the University of Ghent, (2012-2016). The goal will be to create an in-service teacher training course that will deal with how to make sense of information through different presentation forms and media. An important part of the project is to produce a website (http://i-use.eu) - with pedagogical stepping stones to using online databases like EUROSTAT and World Bank Data - and integrate them into their classes.

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EUROGEO and the Home for Cooperation

Located in the buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus the Home for Cooperation will function as shared space for intercommunal cooperation and dialogue. The home will open in Spring 2011. When you think of Cyprus we see a border crossing from West to East in the Northern part of the island. A border with a history and a border with geographical consequences. EUROGEO has been asked to be involved in the opening of the House for Cooperation, focussing on the border as a place to meet. More details to be published at: http://www.cyprus-tube.com/historical-dialogue/

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cyprus photo

 

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EUROGEO and the European Education Think Tank

EUROGEO has invited to participate in an international Think Tank on Education in Europe in the 21st Century and to look at the tensions between Economics versus Politics, Society and Environment. The project is iniated by the European Academy in Otzenhausen, Germany

 

Geo-media and GIS

EUROGEO is connected with a number of projects and activities in the area of GIS and geospatial technologies - digital:earth:at Centre of excellence - presentation - GIS core competences - GIforum - iGuess

 

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

Minerva Project 2002-2005

EUROGEO co-ordinated a Socrates-Minerva project Euro.Geo: Promoting the European Dimension through geographical education, to provide guidance, advice and educational resources concerning the teaching of citizenship through Geography. Web site

EUROGEO has co-ordinated an ERASMUS programme "complementary measures" small research project. This was to discover the extent to which member associations of EUROGEO were promoting a "European Dimension in Geography Teaching" within their own national areas. The project took as its basic text the European Commission's concept of the "European Dimension in Education", as defined by the Education Committee of the Commission and reprinted in the Official Journal dated May 1988.