The International Geographical Congress that concluded at the University of Cologne just a few weeks ago was an unprecedented success for the IGU. Thanks to the selfless efforts of the IGC2012 Local Organising Committee under the fine leadership of Dr Frauke Kraas and Professor Dieter Soyez the congress went off without a hitch. Moreoever, the [...]
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Eight years of waiting and anticipation: the hard work is almost done. The machine that is the Local Organising Committee - a younger and more energetic team you cannot find - is now fine-tuning the operations to welcome more than 2000 delegates to the International Geographical Congress at the University of Cologne. With just a few [...]
These maps illustrate the proportion of registered participants for the upcoming 32nd International Geographical Congress at the University of Cologne, Germany. The size of the individual countries is proportional to the number of registered delegates (2400 in all). Naturally, there is domination by the European participants (especially Germany - so that one of the maps excludes the German data to [...]
The deadline for submission of abstracts for the upcoming IGU Regional Conference in Krakow, Poland, has now been extended to 27th January 2014. Please note the following important dates and visit the conference website for further informationwww.igu2014.org 27 January 2014 - Deadline for submitting abstracts for papers and posters 25 February 2014 ? Notification of results of abstract [...]
This week the world says farewell to perhaps the greatest human being of our time. Nelson Mandela, known affectionately in South Africa as Tata Madiba, died peacefully on 5th December at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg. Madiba has a special relationship with the IGU since he opened the Durban Regional Conference in 2002 and was [...]
Ever since the presentation of the Cologne plans for hosting the IGC 2012 in Glasgow 2004 we have used the 'marathon' metaphor to describe the feelings, the efforts, and the joys that were – and still are - triggered by this endeavour. Fewer than six weeks from IGC Cologne, we have entered the final leg, [...]
On behalf of the 2013 World Social Science Report Editorial Team, the ISSC is pleased to announce the call for contributions to the 2013 WSSR. Please note that the deadline for expressions of interest is 20 July 2012. For more information, download here. Please send your expression of interest, as well as your CV, by 20 [...]
IGU Vice-President Dieter Soyez of the University of Cologne was recently awarded the Johan August Wahlberg medal in gold by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography at a ceremony in Stockholm. This is a singular distinction and is awarded to Professor Soyez for his meritorious contributions to research and teaching, in particular in the overlapping fields of nature [...]
A major five-day Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development will be held on 11-15 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the days just prior to the Rio+20 Conference. Visit the website for more information. The Forum will bring together leading international scientists and policy-makers to explore the key role of interdisciplinary science [...]
