The event will showcase the university's knowledge and technology transfer, spotlighting projects across four focal areas: socially relevant, industrial, sustainable and tangible.
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”.
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.”
The Heidelberg Geographical Society (HGG) has invited leading experts to present on urgent contemporary issues and engage in discussions with the audience afterward.
HeiGIT organizes and participates in several events throughout the week, such as “Piloting Drones”, “Mapathon with German Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders”.