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26. Juni 2026 – Institute of Geography presents research at the first international conference on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI 2026)
From 3 to 6 June 2026, the 1st International Conference on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI 2026) took place in Ghent, Belgium.
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19. Dezember 2025 – Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) gesucht
Wir suchen ab dem 01.04.2026 befristet in Teilzeit (29,8725 Std./Woche = 75 %) eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d).
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01. Dezember 2025 – Land, Licht und Macht in Mozambique: Eine PhD Journey
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17. November 2025 – Shape2Gether in Turku: Alte Kollegen, neue Perspektiven
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04. November 2025 – Neue Angebote für Lehrkräfte Mit Satellitendaten den Klimawandel verstehen – Hackathon in Berlin
Die CDEC academy hilft Lehrkräften dabei, Geographie und Informatik zu verbinden und stellt dafür eigens entwickelte Lernmodule zur Verfügung. Der zweite CDEC Hackathon am 11. und 12. Oktober in Berlin Neukölln lieferte dabei wichtige Erkenntnisse zur erfolgreichen Einbindung der Module in den Unterricht.
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10. Oktober 2025 – Annual Meeting of the AK Fernerkundung at the Institute of Geography
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01. Oktober 2025 – Der ESCO Open Day 2025
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09. September 2025 – Bochum startet Wetterstationsnetz für klimagerechte Stadtentwicklung
Bochum, 04.09.2025 – Bochum begegnet den Folgen des Klimawandels mit datenbasierter Stadtentwicklung.
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15. Mai 2025 – ESERO Germany und DIEGOSat auf der Raumfahrtkonferenz SpaceTech.NRW in Köln vorgestellt
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02. April 2025 – Die wollen nur spielen - letzte Shape2Gether Summer School thematisiert Gamification
Die wollen nur spielen - letzte Shape2Gether Summer School thematisiert Gamification
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31. März 2025 – Mzuri sana! AG Geomatik in Kenia
Die AG Geomatik – Interdisziplinäre Geoinformationswissenschaften besuchte im März die Kolleg:innen der Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (DeKUT) in Nyeri, Kenia.
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28. März 2025 – Teamwork gegen Hochwasser - Great Disaster Challenge am 19.03.2025
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28. März 2025 – Gymnasium Siegburg Alleestraße am GI - Schüler:innen entdecken die Welt der Satellitenfernerkundung und Augmented Reality
Schüler:innen entdecken die Welt der Satellitenfernerkundung und Augmented Reality
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31. Januar 2025 – Mounir Azzam has successfully completed his doctoral defense
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15. Dezember 2024 – Elena Marci-Boehncke and Roman Hiby for the GI at the Global Moon Village Symposium 2024 in Luxembourg
Elena Marci-Boehncke from the Department of Geography presented innovative approaches to integrating remote sensing into German classrooms at the Global Moon Village Symposium 2024 in Luxembourg. The conference covered lunar topics of global interest, such as the potential establishment of lunar bases.
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08. Dezember 2024 – How LEDs are changing the night: Dr. Christopher Kyba in the DW Podcast
Cities worldwide are turning to LEDs to save money and reduce their carbon footprint, but this shift raises ecological concerns. In a recent episode of Deutsche Welles's Living Planet podcast, Dr. Christopher Kyba from the Institute of Geography sheds light on these issues during a night walk through Cologne, one of Germany's brightest cities.
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29. November 2024 – OER4SDI - Teaching material for students is available
For two years, a project team from Bochum and Münster developed materials on the subject of geoinformation processing for the training of students. The result is a structured collection for students of geoinformatics, geodesy, geomatics and related subjects. The Open Educational Resources (OER) are available for download.
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15. November 2024 – Geotools for smallholder farmers: COINS workshop explores sustainable land use in Ghana with digital geotools
How can digital tools and geodata support smallholder farmers in West Africa and promote sustainable land use? How can such tools be brought to the farmer?
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24. Oktober 2024 – Between sustainability and lunar tourism - Roman Hiby for the GI at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC)
The 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) took place in Milan from October 14-18, 2024. With a total of 7,200 abstracts submitted, this is the world's largest conference in the field of space science. Every year, the world's largest government space agencies, private aerospace companies and universities come together to discuss new missions and the latest research and development.
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08. Oktober 2024 – Nighttime lights at the ESA Open Days
Astronauts and researchers share their findings on ISS photography and night light research
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19. August 2024 – Student/Research Assistant (SHK/WHB) in the field of Earth System Sciences and Geoinformation - with immediate effect
Job advertisement of the AG Interdisciplinary Geoinformation Sciences.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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20.05.2024 – Shape2Gether begrüßt 31 Agents of Change in Norwegen
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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.
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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.
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19.04.2024 – New participatory project in the Muringato catchment area: MC2FM
The participatory project activates the community in the Muringato catchment area to assess climate change impacts, develop an early warning system for risky weather conditions and implement reforestation measures.
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21. März 2024 – A plea for the planet - we're in!
Experience innovative environmental protection topics and projects at the #WochederUmwelt: ESERO will be there!
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26. Februar 2024 – Humboldt Fellow Dr. Oluwafemi Odunsi explores impact of economic development initiative
Humboldt Fellow Dr. Oluwafemi Odunsi uses artificial intelligence and computer simulations in his work in Professor Andreas Rienow's research group.
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26. Februar 2024 – CanSat competition: Can satellites rise up to one kilometre
Pupils present self-built mini satellites at the 10th CanSat competition in Bremen - organised by Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
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22.02.2024 – Shape2Gether nimmt Fahrt auf
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03. Dezember 2023 – Christopher Kyba receives prize for citizen science project
For his project on light pollution, Dr Christopher Kyba received the "Knowledge of the Many - Research Prize for Citizen Science", endowed with 20,000 euros, on 29 November 2023.
[Read more] Interdisciplinary geographic information sciences, GI-News
27.10.2023 – Shape2Gether: Kick-Off in Olomouc
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22. Oktober 2023 – Count the lights - registration possible until 25.10.!
On 26.10.2023 (Thursday) we will go together to count lights in the city center of Bochum! As part of the project "Night Lights" we will collect valuable knowledge about light pollution and support the Citizen Science project.
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31. August 2023 – Counting lights for science
Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum are looking for interested people who want to participate in their project as Citizen Scientists.
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11. August 2023 – Torben Dedring receives the second place of the Young Scientist Award at EARSeL
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19. Juli 2023 – Research Data for the Great Acceleration
The Institute of Geography is now a member of "NFDI4Earth", the National Research Data Infrastructure Consortium Earth System Research.
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08. Juni 2023 – With AI and climate protection expertise, young people become active
The pilot project "Climate Data Entrepreneurial Club" has been launched. In it, young people acquire expertise in computer science, earth observation and pedagogy in order to initiate and prototype their own sustainability projects.
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08. Mai 2023 – Neues MOOC-Modul „Land & EO“ ist online
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01. März 2023 – MOOC module: "Agriculture & Livestock" is online
What is the role of agriculture and livestock in fighting hunger and achieving food security? How can Earth observation support this?
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15. Februar 2023 – Kick-off of COINS - Digital technologies for sustainable intensification of farming methods in West Africa
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08. Februar 2023 – Field visit and schooling on geomatics in Nyeri (Kenya) in January 2023
The WG Geomatics - Interdisciplinary Geoinformation Sciences visited the colleagues of the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (DeKUT) in Nyeri, Kenya, in January.
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06. Februar 2023 – MOOC module: "SDG2: Zero Hunger" is online
What is the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development? What goals does it include and how can Earth observation be used to efficiently and objectively measure progress towards them? In particular, how can satellite and geospatial data support Goal 2, "No Hunger"?
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14. Dezember 2022 – MOOC-Launch: „Towards Zero Hunger“
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26. September 2022 – Future of nighttime lights in Bochum: discussion and call for action
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12. September 2022 – School teams build their own mini satellites
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12. July 2022 – IdeenExpo in Hannover
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20. June 2022 – Von der Mikrowelle zum Radarbild - Neue Lerneinheit von ESERO onlne
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01. June 2022 – Geographisches Institut beim ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022 in Bonn
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09. December 2021 – Torben Dedring receives "Prize for Students" from the Rectorate
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16. November 2021 – Information on the Galactic Video Conference (In Flight Call with Matthias Maurer)
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15. November 2021 – First Practical Course of "Land in Focus MOOC" online: "Urban Spaces"
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15. November 2021 – Second Practical Course of "Land in Focus MOOC" online: "People, Land, Sustainability"
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02. November 2021 – Invitation to the Galactic Video Conference with Galactic Workshops!
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06. October 2021 – About continents, time zones - and SDGs
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09. September 2021 – Open EO MOOC: Land in Focus registration opened!
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24. August 2021 – Announcement of the 8th German CanSat Competition 2021/22
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24. June 2021 – With the mini robot "Calliope mini" to the International Space Station
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18. May 2021 – Observing the earth with a mini satellite
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03. November 2020 – Geoinformation and sustainable development
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30. June 2020 – Five years of fascinating images from space
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12. May 2020 – Virtual participation of the GI at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020 in Vienna
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17. January 2020 – Junior Professor for Interdisciplinary Geoinformation Sciences
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