Events

Upcoming Events

Lecture
This HGG lecture is given by students from the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University who participated in the Vietnam excursion.
Conference
At this year’s AGIT conference in Salzburg, Austria, HeiGIT will host a poster session to our new Silver Ways project, developing a walkable routing system to cater the needs of older adults.
Conference
HeiGIT is participating in this year’s ICUC12 – 12th International Conference on Urban Climate, which is taking place from 7 to 11 July in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. HeiGIT will be presenting in the session “Recent advancements in monitoring and modelling urban greenhouse gas emissions”.
Lecture
The last HGG lecture of this summer term 2025 will look at the terraced landscapes in the Peruvian Andes, focussing on human-environment interactions.
Mapathon
This Mapathon is organized in cooperation with Doctors Without Borders and is part of the Missing Maps project. The project uses the open-source platform OpenStreetMap to map areas lacking geographical data for humanitarian aid.
Workshop
In this interactive workshop at the KIT Science Week 2025, participants can learn about active mobility while mapping their city.
Lecture
The third HGG lecture is about the function of glaciers as early warning systems for climate change and how this has changed over the years.
Mapathon
Our next mapathon will take place on June 3, 2025 at 6.30 PM in the Hörsaal of the Geography institute in the Berliner Straße 48.
Conference
HeiGIT will be participating at this years QGIS User Conference from 2nd to 3rd of June 2025 in Norrköping, Sweden. The conference includes a variety of presentations, workshops, and discussions on a wide range of QGIS topics.
Lecture
The second HGG lecture of this semester answers the question of why tree borders exist and how climate change influences them.
Lecture
The Heidelberg Geographical Society (HGG) begins its open lecture series for the summer term 2025.
Conference
Several of our colleagues are attending this year’s EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria.
Conference
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.
conference
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.
exhibition
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.

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