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The transformation of metropolitan regions offers challenges and opportunities for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The mission of the Institute of Geography is to advance scientific understanding of the developments and design options of spatial transformation processes in metropolitan regions.

Research and teaching at the Institute of Geography focus on three main areas: Resilient Cities, Smart Cities, and Green and Equitable Cities. These focal areas are addressed in close cooperation among the 14 working groups and across the thematic fields of Human Geography, Physical Geography, Geography Didactics, Geomatics and Environmental Analysis and Planning.

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11. Juli 2024 – COINS Annual Meeting - Progress in the sustainable intensification of cultivation methods in West Africa through interdisciplinary project work
From 26 to 28 June, representatives of the cooperation partners exchanged initial results of the project launched in October 2023 at a hybrid meeting at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF) in Bonn. The project is structured into three pillars: "Targeting," "Enabling," and "Advising," with the latter led by Dr. Valerie Graw (AG Remote Sensing). A key strength of the project lies in its transdisciplinary research approach, which equally involves local actors, and in the integration of various modeling approaches. Yield modeling, economic modeling, and spatial modeling aim to highlight options for action and allow for risk assessments.
[Read more] Remote sensing, Interdisciplinary geographic information sciences, GI-News
09. Juli 2024 – Institute of Geography at the 43rd EARSeL Symposium 2024 in Manchester, Great Britain
This year's 43rd EARSeL Symposium took place in Manchester from 17 to 20 June 2024. The symposium was organised at Manchester Metropolitan University with the support of ESA. With over 200 scientific contributions on the current state of Earth observation with remote sensing, participants were able to exchange ideas on a wide range of topics.
[Read more] Remote sensing, Interdisciplinary geographic information sciences, GI-News
01. Juli 2024 – INVITATION TO THE PHD-COLLOQUIUM OF THE FACULTY OF GEOSCIENCE
Date: 8th July 2024 at 15:00
[Read more] GI-News
20. Juni 2024 – TRANSFORMER: Successful Final Conference at RUB
The final conference of the TRANSFORMER project took place at Ruhr University Bochum on 18 and 19 June.
[Read more] Urban and regional economics, GI-News
19. Juni 2024 – ESERO at the IdeenExpo in Hanover
IdeenExpo is the largest youth event for science and technology in Europe and takes place every two years in Hanover. The GI was there as part of ESERO Germany!
[Read more] Interdisciplinary geographic information sciences, GI-News
10. Juni 2024 – ESERO at the Week of the Environment - Report from Bellevue Palace
On 4 and 5 June 2024, the Week of the Environment took place in the garden of Bellevue Palace in Berlin at the invitation of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU). Together with more than 190 exhibitors from business and technology, research and science as well as civil society, we as ESERO Germany were selected to present our activities in STEM education in relation to climate change and future-oriented education.
[Read more] Interdisciplinary geographic information sciences, GI-News
09. Juni 2024 – Überlasst den Weltraum nicht den Milliardären - der Satellitendaten Workshop auf der re:publica
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. To help young people tackle it, the German Informatics Society in Berlin and the universities of Paderborn and Bochum launched the Climate Data Entrepreneurial Club (CDEC) pilot project on 1 June 2023. Students can acquire expertise in computer science, earth observation and entrepreneurship in order to initiate and prototype their own sustainability projects. At re:publica - Europe's largest conference on the digital society - around 30 participants were able to learn the basics of working with satellite data as part of a workshop on 27 May 2024 and then explore a freely selected region with regard to various climatic parameters following a number of demos.
[Read more] Interdisciplinary geographic information sciences, GI-News
03. Juni 2024 – INVITATION TO THE PHD-COLLOQUIUM OF THE FACULTY OF GEOSCIENCE
[Read more] GI-News
27. Mai 2024 – Resilience of Clusters and Cluster Policies: Kiese, Ketels and Fornahl Edit New Special Issue of the Competitiveness Review
New Guest Editoral by Matthias Kiese, Christian Ketels and Dirk Fornahl.
[Read more] Urban and regional economics, GI-News
20.05.2024 – Shape2Gether begrüßt 31 Agents of Change in Norwegen
[Read more] Interdisciplinary geographic information sciences, GI-News
20. Mai 2024 – Mounir Azzam won the 'Best Presentation Award' at the ICUDRPRR 2024
The Working Group Interdisciplinary Geoinformation Sciences is pleased to congratulate Mounir Azzam for the ‘Best Presentation Award’ at ICUDRPRR 2024.
[Read more] Interdisciplinary geographic information sciences, GI-News
07. Mai 2024 – Girls Day ‘Zoom on the blue planet’
On Future Day, we took a group of 20 enthusiastic schoolgirls on a fascinating journey through the world of satellite images.
[Read more] Interdisciplinary geographic information sciences, GI-News