Category: Events
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Final meeting of the E-TRAINEE project
Last week, the 3DGeo research group hosted the final meeting of the E-TRAINEE project, finally and for the first time in presence. For almost three years now, we have been developing a research-oriented open-source e-learning course – soon to be published! The course on “Time Series Analysis in Remote Sensing for Understanding Human-Environment Interactions” teaches…
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2022 #30DayMapChallenge Round-Up Part 2: Deleted Maps
Featured photo: The deleted map displays all deleted elements within the analyzed areas (red). Gray rectangles represent deleted buildings. This past November, our teams at HeiGIT and GIScience participated in Topi Tjukanov’s Twitter event #30DayMapChallenge, where mappers display their creativity and ingenuity with a set of 30 daily prompts ranging from colors to specific datasets…
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Training on digitalization of participatory mapping in Kuala Lumpur
Featured Image: Training participants simulating a participatory mapping on the ground with the SketchMapTool. Last week, HeiGIT team member Anne Schauß held a workshop session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during a training of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The international training focused on community resilience and how to assess…
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#30DayMapChallenge Round-Up Part 1: Germany Three Ways
Featured Image: The peaks of Germany identified by curvature in N/E direction, Jakob Schnell’s contribution for Day 7 (Raster) of the #30DayMapChallenge. This past November, our teams at HeiGIT and GIScience participated in Topi Tjukanov’s Twitter event #30DayMapChallenge, where mappers display their creativity and ingenuity with a set of 30 daily prompts ranging from colors to…
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Öffentlicher Vortrag am 16. Mai: Klimawandel, Mobilität und das steigende Risiko von Infektionskrankheiten in Deutschland
Am Dienstag, den 16. Mai, werden die Besuchenden des öffentlichen Vortrags “Klimawandel und Infektionskrankheiten in Bezug auf Gesundheitswesen und Mobilität” Einblicke von fünf Experten erhalten, die derzeit Pionierarbeit bei der Erforschung einer der größten Bedrohungen für die öffentliche Gesundheit in Deutschland leisten. Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher und englischer Sprache im Mathematik-Hörsaal im Erdgeschoss des…
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GeoEpi at CGA 2023: From Geospatial Research to Health Solutions
Featured photo: The geoEpi team attending CGA 2023. Back row from left: PD Dr. med. Thomas Jaenisch, Assoz. Prof. Dr. Bernd Resch, Dorian Arifi and Steffen Knoblauch. Front row from left: Dr. rer. nat. Ivonne Morales Benavides, Apl. Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach, and Dr. Yannik Roell. Ever since Dr. John Snow’s 1854 tracing of a…
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Upcoming Public Lecture May 16: Climate Change, Mobility, and the Increasing Risk of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Germany
On Tuesday, May 16, visitors to the public lecture “Climate Change, Mobility, and the Increasing Risk of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Germany” will be treated to insights from five experts currently pioneering research into one of the greatest threats to Germany’s public health. The event will occur in both German and English on the ground…
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HeiGIT’s contributions to the 2nd UN Maps Conference
The United Nations Maps program, created in 2019, held its 2nd UN Maps Conference, this time in Valencia, Spain. Prof. Alexander Zipf of HeiGIT and the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University and Benjamin Herfort of HeiGIT attended the conference to talk about “Open Ecosystems in Practice”, “Partnerships and Cooperation with Academia” and how to “build better…
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Mamapa/CartONG Event zu Interkultureller Kommunikation im Rahmen der “Internationalen Wochen gegen Rassissmus” 2023 – Fettnäpfchen erkennen und vermeiden lernen
Bereits seit 2016 werden jährlich die Internationalen Wochen gegen Rassissmus (IWgR) von der Stiftung gegen Rassismus koordiniert. In zahlreichen Veranstaltungen können in deren Rahmen Erfahrung gesammelt und ausgetauscht, informiert und vor allem Bewusstsein geschaffen und Engagement gefördert werden. Bereits seit 2019 unterstützt das Mamapa Projekt die IWgR durch Veranstaltungen. Mamapa wurde mit dem Ziel gegründet, die Integration von neu Zugewanderten (Migrant*innen bzw. Flüchtlingen)…
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Sketch Map Tool Launch
We are excited to invite you to the official launch of the Sketch Map Tool! The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use, open-source and free-of-charge tool which facilitates community mapping. You can use it to collect local spatial knowledge with pen and paper with an OpenStreetMap in the background. With the Sketch Map Tool, you…
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Geography Awareness Week 14.-19.11.2022
Der Klimawandel, Grenz- und Wasserkonflikte stellen enorme Herausforderungen für die aktuelle und kommenden Generationen dar. In all diesen Bereichen und darüber hinaus bietet die Geographie einmalige Chancen, zielgerichtet Lösungen zu erarbeiten. Das Geographische Institut der Universität Heidelberg möchte gemeinsam mit der Fachschaft Geographie, dem HeiGIT(Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology), GeoDACH e.V. und anderen internationalen Partnerorganisationen Aufmerksamkeit auf das Fach Geographie und…
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New(s) story about Sensing Mountains Summer School 2022
The fourth edition of the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research took place in September 2022, finally back in the lovely mountain landscape of the Ötztal valley in Tyrol, Austria. Once again, 40 participants – young researchers from all over the world – gathered in Obergurgl to learn and exchange about new concepts and solutions…