The OBJECTIVE of the conference is to Discuss scientific ach... Read more

The OBJECTIVE of the conference is to Discuss scientific achievements, research priorities, challenges and regional international collaboration in marine science, innovation and technology in the frame of global ocean perspective during the coming decade (with special focus on Black Sea, European and adjacent seas). The BACKGROUND is the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the foundation of IO-BAS along with partners. The International Conference on Regional Ocean Research will share achievements and outline future prospects in marine science during the next decade.

Source: IO-BAS

Link: http://mares2020.io-bas.bg/

The "Environmental Technologies" Unit in DG Resear... Read more

The "Environmental Technologies" Unit in DG Research and Innovation is organising a one day workshop to be held in Brussels on the 29th of April 2013 on issues regarding the commercialisation of products or project results developed by multi-national consortia with the participation of SMEs from different countries.
The aim of the Workshop is to inform on the possibilities for products/processes of achieving the market, looking at IPR, standards and, more in general, to the exploitation of innovative solutions.

Source: European Commission

Link: http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=events&eventcode=DA77459C-95D6-E3D7-EC21D2977DF1C9C1

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites all mobile deve... Read more

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites all mobile developers, location data providers, network operators and LBS service users to an exciting event and reception. Attendees will learn the latest in open standards development for getting the highest value from LBS to users.
When: Wednesday February 27, 2013 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Where: Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (ICC)
Parc Montjuic
Barcelona, Spain
If you are going to Mobile World Congress 2013 be sure to visit OGC at this Event.
Agenda:
- overview of OGC
- testimonials about the value of using OGC Standards
- discussion with the experts on OGC standards
OGC standards for mobile apps
No-cost to attend. Register here:
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/public_ogc/register/130227_lbs.php

Source: OGC

Link: http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/Barcelona2013

The workshop “INSPIRE in practice - Intelligent extensions... Read more

The workshop “INSPIRE in practice - Intelligent extensions and applications” will be held as a side event to the INSPIRE 2013 Conference in Florence, Italy. Some grants are foreseen for applicants from enlargement countries. More information is available on the conference web site.

Source: Joint Research Centre

Link: http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2013/

The web site of the next INSPIRE conference is available ann... Read more

The web site of the next INSPIRE conference is available announcing this event to take place in Florence, Italy. The aim of this year's INSPIRE Conference is therefore to take stock of this progress. To further exchange views and experiences on how INSPIRE is meeting past and emerging challenges and needs. To identify new opportunities and to finally, reflect collectively on how INSPIRE can further evolve to maximise its benefits for society.

Source: INSPIRE

Link: http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2013/

Scientists this week unveiled an unprecedented look at our p... Read more

Scientists this week unveiled an unprecedented look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite, shows the glow of natural and human-built phenomena across the planet in greater detail than ever before. NASA also released a slew of images from cities and communities around the world, using camera technology that produces an image by repeatedly scanning a scene and resolving it as millions of individual pixels. The instrument can capture images on nights with or without moonlight, producing crisp views of Earth's atmosphere, land and ocean surfaces.

Source: eWeek

Link: http://www.eweek.com/cloud/slideshows/black-marble-spectacular-images-from-nasa-noaa-of-the-earth-at-night/?kc=EWKNLEND12082012STR1

The ХVTH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE "MAN... Read more

The ХVTH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE "MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT" will take place from 22 to 24 MARCH 2013, in YUNDOLA, Bulgaria. CONFERENCE THEMES are Sustainable development concept, Sustainable development management – criteria, characteristics and policies, Main areas for implementing the principles of sustainable development, Human resource management and sustainable development, Contemporary information technologies in sustainable development management and Education, training and curricula.

Source: http://oldweb.ltu.bg/conferences/uur/2013/index_en.html

Link: http://oldweb.ltu.bg/conferences/uur/2013/index_en.html

The 2nd International Netcad User Conference took place on T... Read more

The 2nd International Netcad User Conference took place on Thursday 18 October 2012 at the J.W. Mariott in Ankara, Turkey. In addition to more than 600 participants from public utilities, municipalities, private companies and universities in Turkey, the conference attracted 70 participants from 16 different countries.

Source: GIM International

Link: http://www.gim-international.com/news/mapping/gis/id7042-successful_international_netcad_user_conference.html

GIS Day will be celebrated across the world on Wednesday, No... Read more

GIS Day will be celebrated across the world on Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Our member, The University of Zagreb, Department of Geography and GIS Institute, organizes a poster exhibition – covering the whole range of GIS activities in every day practices focusing on its usage within the various geographical disciplines. Other members may also organize activities. Come and celebrate!

Link: http://www.gisday.com/index.html

Geographic Information Science at the Heart of Europe
<... Read more

Geographic Information Science at the Heart of Europe

14-17 May 2013, Leuven, Belgium

On behalf of the AGILE council, we would like to invite you to participate at the 16th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, scheduled to take place between 14 and 17 May 2013 in Leuven, Belgium, which is situated at the heart of Europe. This years’ conference will pay special attention to the role Geographic Information Science & Technology can play to help resolving the societal challenges we are facing, and to support European policy making in particular.

Source: AGILE

Link: http://agile.gis.geo.tu-dresden.de/web/index.php/conference/conference-2013

The objective of the conference is to gather decision makers... Read more

The objective of the conference is to gather decision makers (government, ministries and state agencies), innovation experts (universities, research and development centres, technology transfer centres, start-up centres) and practitioners (smes,business incubators and business support organisations) to generate discussion and exchange on the potential of entrepreneurship promotion and innovation to national and regional competitiveness.​
The conference will take place on June 20-21, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey.

ICEIRD welcomes papers for 2013 Istanbul Meeting. 2013 Program Theme is "Regional Economic Resilience through Innovation and Enterprise".

Source: ICEIRD

Link: http://www.sehir.edu.tr/iceird2013

Intergeo 2012 has come to an end. This year’s edition took... Read more

Intergeo 2012 has come to an end. This year’s edition took place in Hanover, Germany and attracted 16,000 trade show visitors. 520 companies exhibited, bringing their latest innovations and trends to the audience. The almost 1,400 conference participants who registered became involved in intensive interdisciplinary dialogue in 40 subjects areas at the Hanover Convention Centre. The largest number of visitors came from Europe, followed by respectively south and central Asia and Latin America, with a mere fourth place for North America.
More information at GIM International - see the link below.

Source: GIM International

Link: http://www.gim-international.com/news/events/intergeo/id6971-another_succesful_intergeo.html

EIS-Africa, the GSDI Association, the International Geospati... Read more

EIS-Africa, the GSDI Association, the International Geospatial Society, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) are pleased to announce a close partnership in offering the joint AfricaGIS 2013 Conference and the GSDI 14 World Conference. This combined conference will take place at the UNECA Conference Center in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia from November 4-8, 2013. AfricaGIS is the largest regularly occurring GIS conference in Africa with participants from the entirety of the continent. The GSDI World Conference has built a reputation for excellence in content and moves across the globe to offer geospatial specialists in all parts of the world opportunities to better exchange ideas and learn from global peers in building spatial data infrastructure.

Source: GSDI

Link: http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/

The 26th International Cartographic Conference, ICC 2013, wi... Read more

The 26th International Cartographic Conference, ICC 2013, will take place in Dresden, Germany, from 25 to 30 August 2013. The conference will provide a forum for the presentation of scientific papers illustrating the current efforts of the research community, professional papers describing the cutting-edge methods employed by mapping organisations, meetings of the ICA Commissions and Working Groups, furthering their international collaborative efforts to advance knowledge and techniques in cartography, map exhibitions and the chance to meet again with colleagues and friends. Paper Submission Deadline is November 1, 2012.

Source: International Cartographic Association

Link: http://www.icc2013.org/

The OSGIS conference series has a strong international focus... Read more

The OSGIS conference series has a strong international focus and takes a holistic approach in bringing together speakers and delegates from government, academe, industry and open source communities. High profile speakers from all over the world are invited for giving presentations and running hands-on workshops for the conference series.

This year's OSGIS Keynote presentations are:
# "2011: the first Open census and beyond? " Prof. David Martin (University of Southampton)
# "What a long strange trip it's been" - Steven Feldman (KnowWhere Consulting and FOSS4G 2013 Chair)
# "Ordnance Survey – embracing the open source opportunity" - Ian James ( Chief Architect, Information Systems, Ordnance Survey & Technical Architect, UK Location Programme)
OSGIS 2012 Workshops include
# How to setup and use an SDI in 3 hours- Geocat (Netherlands)
# Getting started with GeoServer and INSPIRE services - GeoSolutions (Italy)
# Educational use of OSGeo Live
# Advanced GeoNetwork - Geocat (Netherlands)
# OSM-GB services and data - NGI (UK)

Source: Open Nottingham initiative

Link: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx

The second Netcad International Users Conference will be hel... Read more

The second Netcad International Users Conference will be held again this year in Ankara where the first one was organized on September 28 last year. A large number of distinguished guests from Turkey and abroad will attend the conference which will be organized on October 18, 2012 JW Marriott Hotel, Ankara.

All the details regarding the conference will be announced in the upcoming period from Netcad’s website.

Source: NETCAD

Link: http://www.netcad.com/

The INSPIRE conference 2012 was held in Istanbul, Turkey fro... Read more

The INSPIRE conference 2012 was held in Istanbul, Turkey from 23 to 27 June in the Istanbul Congress Centre. This event represents the most important gathering of the stakeholders in the domain of the European INSPIRE Directive and its implication on the fields of environmental issues, spatial data, geoinformation systems and related fields. Participants were European field experts, policymakers, Europe-wide governmental representatives as well as INSPIRE stakeholders from national and subnational levels.
AGISEE member Luka Jovicic participated in the conference and reported about his experiences.

Source: Luka Jovicic

Link: http://www.agisee.org/ic2012.php

The Serbian Geodetic Institute (RGZ) in charge of establishi... Read more

The Serbian Geodetic Institute (RGZ) in charge of establishing cadastre in Serbia will become the centre for Geographic Information in the Republic of Serbia in order to meet the European Union SDI standards that will be in place by 2015. In order to do so, a collaboration was established between the RGZ and the consortium composed of EADS Astrium and IGN France International, allowing for the delivery of highly technological components and a unique transfer of knowledge and experience destined to elaborate this Serbian Spatial data infrastructure centre capable of producing, updating, organising and disseminating geographic data for the sake of Serbian citizens, as well as the public and private sectors.

Source: IGN France International

Link: http://www.ignfi.fr/en/content/4-questions-au-directeur-regional-dign-fi-herve-pichon-serbie

Since 15 years we organize an annual workshop UP-GIS dealing... Read more

Since 15 years we organize an annual workshop UP-GIS dealing with Spatial planning using Geospatial technologies near the Vranovska prehrada (dam) in Southern Moravia. This year we open 2 main topics there: Borders and Water. Borders in general, but in focus to 22 year dead iron courtain on the border of former sowiet block. We will speak about plans and dreams from ninetieth, compare it with reality. The planning process requires some professionality, special techniques, but in general it depends on philosophical backgrounds, on steakholders who lead the society in the given period. Our seminars went through years solving both the techniques and implementation of advanced technologies into spatial planning as well as discussions about the ethic, economical, environmental, and even the deepest cultural roots of spatial planning, urbanism, fascination by technologies, completely new quality of infrastructures, historically unprecedent chances. And breaks in human heads. There is a remarkable progress, no discussion, year after year we analyse reasons, highlight good practice, and look for ways forward. To serve professionally, to produce pleasure in parallel to comfort, affluence, prosperity, sustainability. This year we would like to listen and discuss more with our neighbours and professional colleagues from abroad!

Source: CAGI

Link: http://cagi.cz/a/upgis2012Bitov/en/

The symposium on Service-Oriented Mapping aims to be a multi... Read more

The symposium on Service-Oriented Mapping aims to be a multidisciplinary event, spanning from computer science to geobusiness. The aim is to bring together various stakeholders in the area of Service-Oriented mapping (data producers, mapping agencies and companies, infrastructure providers, software developers, cartographers, artists, ...) in order to discuss the influence of this new production environment (the networked spatial infrastructure and its service-oriented distribution) on the map production and the perspectives of the new paradigm for research and development in cartography.

Link: http://somap.cartography.at

The 3rd International Conference: Geosciences and Environmen... Read more

The 3rd International Conference: Geosciences and Environment, that will be held in Continental Hotel Belgrade, 27-29 May 2012, is continuation of activities related to promotion of Geosciences at international level. The Conference includes paper presentations (oral/poster), short courses, workshops, networking events, social events and Technical exhibition. The organisers are expecting 250 international and domestic attendees.
Beginning from 2009, Association of Geophysicists and Environmentalists of Serbia started to organize international and regional Conferences related to Geosciences. Each year, the Conference is organized in different city in order to more widely promote Environmental- and Geosciences in community, among professionals, public bodies, NGOs, public and private companies employees, but with special attention to the future colleagues, students, high school and elementary school pupils.
Abstracts must be relevant to one of the Conference topics (see below). Technical Program Committee will consider all abstracts submitted to the Conference e-mail or the Web-site by April 15, 2012 and notification of acceptance will be made to authors by April 25, 2012.

Source: WBC-INCO-NET

Link: http://www.agserbia.com/

3rd HUNAGI CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION: Mobile GIS and Related... Read more

3rd HUNAGI CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION: Mobile GIS and Related Data Services, Date: March 21-22, 2012 , Venue:  Budapest

Link: http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/mod/file/download.php?file_guid=82269

The President , U. Boes, and the executive secretary , R... Read more

The President , U. Boes, and the executive secretary , R.Pavlova, of AGISEE met the Management and the researchers of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography (NIGGG) of BAS (Bulgarian Academy of Science), on 16 February 2012 in the premises of the institute. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the way that both AGISEE as non profit organization and NIGGG as a research institute could work together and support each other. Prof. D. Sc. N. Miloshev, Director of NIGGG, opened the meeting. Mr. Boes presented the association, its strategic priorities and activities. Assoc.Prof.Dr. Koulov, scientific secretary , presented NIGGG and stressed on the scientific investigation and fundamental, applied and operational research activities. The research competences were expressed in terms of number of projects; the institute has a portfolio of 61 externally funded projects, with 8 funded by the EU directly.

During the discussion the areas of common interests have been found as: promotion and raising awareness of SDI; SDI training; participating in joint projects and initiatives related to the INSPIRE Directive and the GMES initiative. The issues of membership of the institute have been discussed as well.

Source: AGISEE

Link: http://www.niggg.bas.bg/

AGISEE has been selected to receive a GSDI Small Grant for 2... Read more

AGISEE has been selected to receive a GSDI Small Grant for 2012 for the project proposal: Non-Governmental Organizations for Spatial Data Infrastructure - NGO4SDI. The proposal of NGOs’ involvement in SDI aims at spreading the need and the return of stronger demand from the spatial data end users using resources from NGO activities. Research of potentials of the NGOs that have no direct correlation with geospatial information, in regards to the SDI current status on a (supra)national level in SEE, will represent the project’s mission.

Source: GSDI Small Grants Coordinator, Federal Geographic Data Committee, USA

Das traditionelle, nunmehr bereits "12. Sächsische GIS... Read more

Das traditionelle, nunmehr bereits "12. Sächsische GIS-Forum" (GI2012 - Dresden:18./19.05.2012) findet in diesem Jahr im Vorfeld der Konferenz FOSS4G-CEE (Prag:21.-23.05.2012) statt ! GI2012-OpenData-Policies, 18./19.May 2012 in DRESDEN / Saxony, FOSS4G-CEE (Central East Europe), 21.-23.May in PRAGUE / Czechia. Während die Prager Konferenz zum Thema "Freie und Offene Software & Daten in Mittel- und Osteuropa" relativ breit aufgestellt ist, wird sich GI2012 auf die aktuellen Probleme des Zugangs und der Wiederverwendung von (Geo-)DATEN im lokalen, regionalen und grenzüberschreitenden Kontext (Open Public Sector Information, Open Government, Open Data, Open Services, OpenStreeMap, Open Standards, OSGeo, OGC etc.) befassen. Die Grundlage für zwei halbtägige Workshops am 18. und 19. Mai 2012 bilden die OPEN DATA Strategy der EC vom Dezember 2011 sowie die 2012 in Vorbereitung befindliche Revision der PSI-Direktive 2003/98/EC.

Link: http://gdi-sn.blogspot.com/

The Digital Earth Vision 2020 was finally launched after mor... Read more

The Digital Earth Vision 2020 was finally launched after more than 6 months of discussions from Digital Earth scientists worldwide. On 23rd August, 2011, the new ISDE President Prof. John Richards announced the Digital Earth Vision 2020 in the opening ceremony of the 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth.

The new vision pointed out what Digital Earth might be in the future and will lead new development of the Digital Earth concept, research and applications. ISDE president, professor John Richards explained, “The Digital Earth Vision 2020 will act as the geographical framework on which to build solutions to physical, social and cultural problems, with functionalities of satisfactory metric accuracy, inclusion of underground and underwater data, historical and time predictive models, data archiving, dynamic and interactive, improved access to current and historical data and information, incorporation of inherently non-visual data, metadata on quality, trust and uncertainty, participative in data provision, analysis and debate, includes information on place, culture, identity and networks, development is driven by application demand, and easy and fun to use.”

Source: International Society for Digital Earth

Link: http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/news/ISDE%20Announced%20the%20Digital%20Earth%20Vision%202020.html

The city of Granada will host the Open Source World Conferen... Read more

The city of Granada will host the Open Source World Conference 2012, the main Spanish conference on this type of software and one of the largest such conferences in Europe. The organisers describe it as the meeting point for anyone interested in this technology model, including users, social agents, developers, business leaders, investors and public sector managers. It will take place from Jan 12, 2012 to Jan 13, 2012 in Granada, Spain.

Source: OSOR.EU

Link: http://www.opensourceworldconference.com/

The 2012 edition of the Free and Open Source software Develo... Read more

The 2012 edition of the Free and Open Source software Developers European Meeting (Fosdem) will be held in Brussels on 4 and 5 February 2012. It is one of the largest European conferences on this type of software. Organisers call it a "a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software". The meeting allows attendees to get in touch with other developers and projects, be informed about the latest developments in the Free Software and Open Source world and attend interesting talks and presentations.

Source: osor.eu

Link: http://fosdem.org/2012/

The First Serbian Geodetic Congress took place under the aus... Read more

The First Serbian Geodetic Congress took place under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning of the Government of the Republic of Serbia. The first part of the congress showed the achievements of the State Geodetic Authority of the Republic of Serbia concerning the important field of cadastre and the Serbian National Spatial Data Infrastructure. The second part was the scientific conference focusing on the topics GNSS technologies, INSPIRE, Real estate valuation and management, 3D cadastre and Remote sensing serving regional development. The international significance of the Congress provided in particular a possibility for young scientists to acquire valid references by participating with their papers. About 450 participants took part in the congress, which was very well organized. We are looking forward to the second edition of this congress. Ulrich Boes, president of AGISEE, presented the activities and achievements of AGISEE in the field of education.

Source: Ulrich Boes

Link: http://www.rgz.gov.rs/template1a.asp?PageName=2011_11_30_05&LanguageID=3

The AGISEE SDI Workshop Split 2011 "South-East European... Read more

The AGISEE SDI Workshop Split 2011 "South-East European Spatial Data Infrastructures in Development" has been organized by the Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe as part of the 3rd Croatian NSDI and INSPIRE Day and 7th Conference Cartography and Geoinformation that took place on 15 September 2011. The workshop focused on the status of SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure) developments in the countries of South-East Europe and their relevant applications. The proceedings are available at the link below.

Source: AGISEE

Link: http://www.kartografija.hr/index.php

The EUROGI Extra Members Meeting (EMM) has taken place on 18... Read more

The EUROGI Extra Members Meeting (EMM) has taken place on 18 November 2011 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Ulrich Boes, President of AGISEE and Luka Jovicic, member of the board of AGISEE, participated in this meeting which presented issues of SDI development in the European Union, South-East Europe and Slovakia. EUROGI members answered questions such as for the value of GI in time of crisis or what will come after INSPIRE.

Source: AGISEE

Link: http://eurogi.org/

The GSDI World Conference (GSDI 13), 14th GEOIDE Annual Scie... Read more

The GSDI World Conference (GSDI 13), 14th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, Canadian Geomatics Conference (CGC) 2012 and the 7th 3D GeoInfo Conference will be jointly held as the Global Geospatial Conference 2012 to take place at the Québec City Convention Center from 14th to 17th May 2012. This conference offers numerous opportunities for oral presentations and refereed and non-refereed publication outlets. The organisers are calling for presentations. Deadline for Submission of Abstracts is 15 November 2011.

Source: GIM International

Link: http://www.gim-international.com/news/id6194-Call_for_Papers_on_Spatial_Data_Infrastructure.html

Schools and universities in Romania and the Republic of Mold... Read more

Schools and universities in Romania and the Republic of Moldova want to increase their use of GNU/Linux based computers and are also turning to Moodle, an open source e-learning environment, following presentations and practical demonstrations in August and September.

Source: Open Source Observatory and Repository for European public administrations

Link: http://www.osor.eu/news/romanian-and-moldovan-schools-and-universities-eager-to-use-open-source

28-30 September, Ilidza, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Second Cong... Read more

28-30 September, Ilidza, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Second Congress on Cadastre in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Organised by the Geodetic Society of Herzeg-Bosnia (GSHB). Co-sponsored by FIG.

Source: FIG

Link: http://www.fig.net/events/2011/bosniaherzegovina_ congress_2011.pdf

EUROGI invites all type of stakeholders in charge of sub-nat... Read more

EUROGI invites all type of stakeholders in charge of sub-national SDIs, at any level (regional, local), of any size and from any region of Europe, to participate in the EUROGI/eSDI-Net sub-national SDIs Best Practices Awards 2011.
SDI self-assessment framework (SDI-SAF) is the tool for collecting information needed in the Awards assessment process, that is based on SDI-SAF indicators. A Jury is established to build evaluation indexes from indicators.
EUROGI organises this year the second sub-national SDIs Best Practices Award: find more info here on the Call for Participants (21st June – 16th August), who can participate, how to participate using the on-line SDI-SAF tool and the time schedule. The Awards Conference will take place on October 12th 2011 in Brussels. On the web site below, you find articles mainly on the EUROGI/eSDI-Net Awards 2011, the SDI-Self Assessment Framework and sub-national SDIs in Germany and France. The SDI-Self Assessment Framework (SDI-SAF) should be filled in if you want to participate; it aims to support SDIs to characterize and describe themselves, to identify the strengths and weaknesses.

Source: EUROGI

Link: http://eurogi.org/sdi-saf

The Swedish GI organisation ULI Geoforum and GI Norden (the ... Read more

The Swedish GI organisation ULI Geoforum and GI Norden (the Nordic umbrella organisation for geographic information), in cooperation with its European counterpart EUROGI, are organising a Nordic seminar on Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) 3-4 October 2011 in Uppsala, Sweden. The main aim of the seminar is to exchange views and experiences on the current status of SDIs in the Nordic countries as well as to make relevant comparisons with other countries or regions in Europe. The seminar aims for a strong user perspective. Other aims are to share visions for future development of SDI in the Nordic region, to facilitate future cooperation on SDI in the region, also between scientists and users, and to make seminar presentations available for a wider audience. Early bird registration fee: 3000 SEK (about 320 EUR). Registration fee after 3rd September: 4000 SEK.

Link: http://www.uli.se/geoinfo2011-nordic-sdi-seminar

CAll for the best SDI in Europe - still open until 16 August... Read more

CAll for the best SDI in Europe - still open until 16 August 2011.
EUROGI organises this year the second sub-national SDIs Best Practices Award: find more info here on the Call for Participants (21st June – 16th August), who can participate, how to participate using the on-line SDI-SAF tool and the time schedule. The Awards Conference will take place on October 12th 2011 in Brussels. On the web site below, you find articles mainly on the EUROGI/eSDI-Net Awards 2011, the SDI-Self Assessment Framework and sub-national SDIs in Germany and France. The SDI-Self Assessment Framework (SDI-SAF) should be filled in if you want to participate; it aims to support SDIs to characterize and describe themselves, to identify the strengths and weaknesses.

Source: EUROGI

Link: http://eurogi.org/esdinet/awards/2011

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association, t... Read more

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association, the FGDC, and GISCorps have announced the Small Grants Program for the year 2011-12. The Small Grants Program provides awards of $2500 USD in cash and/or contributed volunteer professional services for a technical or institutional projects. A list of typical projects follows - but this list is not exhaustive: Convening of national or sub-national seminars or workshops related to SDI Producing SDI- and EOS-related training manuals and modules (these materials must not duplicate existing materials) Establishing metadata and clearinghouse nodes (catalog services) Establishing standards-based web mapping and data access services Accomplishing geospatial data and/or SDI surveys or inventories Producing and disseminating newsletters and awareness-raising materials about SDI Drafting policy and legislation related to SDI Priority will be given to projects in developing nations and countries with economies in transition. Grants can be awarded to SDI coordinating bodies (councils, committees) and GIS user groups, but the GSDI Association asks that one institution take responsibility for receiving/depositing the funds. Grants cannot be used to cover organization overhead expenses. Application deadline: 31 October 2011.

Link: http://www.gsdi.org/node/315

Netcad International User Conference will be held in Middle ... Read more

Netcad International User Conference will be held in Middle East Technical University Conference Center, Ankara, 28th of September, 2011.

Members of the worldwide Netcad user community are invited to share their experiences with Netcad solutions at the 2011 Netcad International User Conference.

In addition to local Turkish attendees, speakers from Azerbaijan, Iran, Georgia, Bulgaria, Bangladesh, Russia and Kazakhstan will participate to the conference.

We will be honored to spot your active participation to our International User Conference.

Link: http://www.netcad.com.tr/conference/index.html

In less than three months, from 27 to 29 September 2011 in N... Read more

In less than three months, from 27 to 29 September 2011 in Nuremberg, INTERGEO will be showcasing new technologies, systems, business solutions and services for all sectors. The world's leading trade fair and conference for geodesy, geoinformation and land management, nurtures active dialogue between some 500 companies and 17,500 decision-makers, developers and purchasers from throughout the world.

Source: Intergeo

Link: http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php

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Source: Shared by Simon Vrečar in INSPIRE interest group

Link: http://www.geoportal.gov.si/

Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham 21-... Read more

Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham 21-22nd June 2011
Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research
The OSGIS conference series has a strong international focus and takes a holistic approach in bringing together speakers and delegates from government, academe, industry and open source communities. High profile speakers from all over the world are invited for giving presentations and running hands-on workshops for the conference series.

Link: http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html

The NSDI and INSPIRE Day is organized for the third time and... Read more

The NSDI and INSPIRE Day is organized for the third time and will take place in Split, Republic of Croatia, September 14-16, 2011. It is encouraged by the great interest on the previous such events. We see the need for the promotion of the knowledge on spatial data infrastructure, at national and European level, the need to gather the representatives of the institutions, subjects of the NSDI with idea to speed up the implementation of SDI in Croatia and to develop the geo-enabled society. This time we want to enlight the activities on the transposition of the INSPIRE directive into the national legislative which as part of Programme of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for transposition and implementation of the EU acquis.
The Croatian Cartographic Society (CCS) and State Geodetic Administration (SGA) as components of the geodetic profession in the particular field have the task and aim of demonstrating knowledge and skill of solving problems related to NSDI and ensure a new area of work for its professionals.
The Croatian Cartographic Society by organizing the conference together with the State Geodetic Administration for the third time wants to contribute to the development of geoinformatics, cartography, geography and related fields. This time the emphasis is on spatial data infrastructure which will change understanding of character, importance and use of spatial data.

Source: Croatian Cartographic Society

Link: http://www.kartografija.hr/index.php?id=121

BALGEOS contributed to the regional implementation of GGOS b... Read more

BALGEOS contributed to the regional implementation of GGOS by developing national and regional capacities for coordinating, using and sharing geodetic data and information. The objectives of the proposal included an evaluation of the possibility to extend the EUREF Permanent Network (EPN) in Southeast Europe, testing the models for space geodetic observations processing, and integration of the obtained results from previous geodetic studies for the regions of Central and Southeast Europe in an unified frame. The project results contribute to the geodetic strategy for development of Earth observation systems in Southeast Europe.
The project consortium has made available its final report to AGISEE. This final report includes in particular a summary of the situation of the geodetic system in all countries of South-East Europe.

Link: http://balgeos.cc.bas.bg

The workshop will discuss spatial data infrastructures and o... Read more

The workshop will discuss spatial data infrastructures and open source software in South-East Europe and is organized by the Hungarian CASCADOSS association.

Link: http://cascadoss.neobase.hu/content/upcoming-events

On behalf of the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre and the mai... Read more

On behalf of the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre and the main Organizers, it is our pleasure to inform you about the upcoming NSDI International Conference on:
IMPACT OF THE NSDI IN SOCIETY, CHALLENGES FOR ESTABLISHMENT, 19-20 September, 2011, Hotel Holiday Inn, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
We use this opportunity to invite you to participate on this conference and we kindly ask you to submit an Abstract of a presentation that will be presented during the conference.
We strongly believe that you will actively participate in our conference with your presentations. You will contribute to a successful conference which would be of mutual benefit to all. Looking forward to meeting you in Skopje.

Link: http://www.katastar.gov.mk/nsdi2011/

The European project esdi-net+ has investigated the existenc... Read more

The European project esdi-net+ has investigated the existence of spatial data infrastructures on sub-national level in Europe and evaluated those infrastructures. They are published in a public SDI Database that is now available online at http://www.esdinetplus.eu/best_practice/database.html.
This database contains many entries of SDIs that are approved by the SDI owners and submitted by the national points of contacts in the required format. AGISEE members have published their SDIs as well; they are from Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Turkey.
The database allows new SDIs to submit their data online. The Online Registration Form is available at http://www.esdinetplus.eu/best_practice/register.html. We encourage you to also submit your SDI into this database, which would give you many new contacts and others might contact you for future cooperation.

Source: http://www.esdinetplus.eu/

Link: http://www.esdinetplus.eu/best_practice/database.html

The Vesta-GIS site is a training Course Catalogue, where the... Read more

The Vesta-GIS site is a training Course Catalogue, where the information about relevant courses and other training contents delivered by the network partners (course metadata, collected according with a standard template) are gathered and made available through an on-line searchable database. In particular, the VESTA-GIS course catalogue represents a chance for educational institutions to reuse quite specialized tailored courses, by making them visible to a pan-European GI-public. From a user perspective, seekers of vocational GI-education might find specialized offers that match their needs even better than expected.

Source: vesta-gis project

Link: http://www.vesta-gis.eu

Тhe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (http://www.openg... Read more

Тhe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (http://www.opengeospatial.org ) and AGISEE, the Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe (http://www.agisee.org) have established a cooperative relationship to promote the importance of open standards in the development of spatial data infrastructures and raise the awareness of interoperability in South-East Europe. A press release is published on the web site of the Open Geospatial Consortium.

Link: http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1239

A new group has been established in the INSPIRE forum, where... Read more

A new group has been established in the INSPIRE forum, where everybody interested in INSPIRE and in the region of South-East Europe can exchange opinions, comments and experiences without becoming formal member of AGISEE

Source: AGISEE

Link: http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pg/groups/11390/southeast-european-inspire-interest-group/

Collaboration Agreement signed with Read more

Collaboration Agreement signed with GISIG, the "Geographic Information Systems International Group"
AGISEE and GISIG are proud to announce that they wish to work together more closely to better serve their members.

Source: http://www.gisig.it/

Link: http://www.gisig.it/