Events

Upcoming Events

conference
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.
conference
The FOSSGIS conference is the largest conference for open source geoinformation software and OpenStreetMap in the German-speaking world. This year´s edition will take place from 26-29 March 2025 in Münster, Germany. Current research and development topics will be presented and discussed in various formats. HeiGIT is once again contributing with two different sessions.
conference
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. The theme of the conference is From Climate Change to Crisis: Integrating Disaster Preparedness and Climate Action. Together with other participants, we will explore the opportunities, challenges, and current developments in disaster risk reduction within the context of a changing climate.
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.
call for papers
Call for papers: VGI and Remote Sensing for Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Environments
Conference
The conference was established to address rapid urbanisation in Africa and the corresponding challenges for transport and infrastructure.
Mapathon
The first Mapathon this year will be on February 7th.
Conference
Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, is hosting a three-day conference with an emphasis on OpenStreetMap in Africa
Colloquium
We are very pleased to host guest speaker Sebastián Block Munguía from the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (Yale University), who will give a talk on “Spatial datasets to assess countries' environmental performance”.
Lecture
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf, Scientific and Managing Director at HeiGIT and Professor of Geoinformatics / GIScience (GIS) at Heidelberg University, will give a lecture on the topic “Climate Protection and Humanitarian Aid: Support from Geoinformatics.”
Lecture
The Heidelberg Geographical Society (HGG) has invited leading experts to present on urgent contemporary issues and engage in discussions with the audience afterward.
Workshop
HeiGIT organizes and participates in several events throughout the week, such as “Piloting Drones”, “Mapathon with German Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders”.
Call for Papers
We invite you to contribute to the workshop on Geocomputational Analysis of Socio-Economic Data at the International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in Hamburg on November 13, 2023!

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