At the 30th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development
in the Information Society (REAL CORP 2025), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kirsten Von Elverfeldt, working in HeiGIT’s Climate Action Team, will present a paper on hiWALK and hiBIKE, co-created assessment tools to foster active mobility for all. The presentation is a part of the session Environmental Friendly, Effective, Attractive and Smart Mobility on all Scales.
HeiGIT will be attending this year’s Urban Greenhouse Gas Conference and Stakeholder Summit in Geneva. Dr. Sebastián Block will present his research on scalable, high-resolution bottom-up GHG emission inventories using open data.
Climate mitigation and protection against heat have many facets. The exhibition “The Aesthetics of Climate Adaptation” aims to present urban measures for adapting to the consequences of climate change with a focus on Heidelberg's Bahnstadt district.
This year, Anne Schauss and Melanie Eckle-Elze will take part in the German Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (Fachtagung Katastrophenvorsorge), which will be held on March 26–27, 2025.
HeiGIT is participating to this year's Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Weeks with a session on the practical applications of AI in humanitarian work, presented by Sukanya Randhawa and Alec Schulze-Eckel.
On December 18, 2024, GIScience PhD candidate Steffen Knoblauch will present his research on “Habitat-Scale Environmental Suitability Mapping for Aedes aegypti.”
