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Conference
Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) is one of the largest global gatherings for Member States, UN agencies, NGOs, the private sector, academia, and other partners. It provides a space to share expertise, hold consultations, and collaborate on challenges spanning humanitarian action and development solutions in crisis contexts.
Mapathon
This mapathon seeks to design a controlled experiment to measure how humans modify AI-generated road geometries at the atomic level.
Conference
The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) will take place in San Francisco, California, and virtually from March 17-21, attracting thousands of experts from academia, government, and the private sector.
call for papers
Call for papers: VGI and Remote Sensing for Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Environments
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.
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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.
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.
conference
The FOSSGIS conference is the largest conference for open source geoinformation software and OpenStreetMap in the German-speaking world.
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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.
Public lecture
On December 18, 2024, GIScience PhD candidate Steffen Knoblauch will present his research on “Habitat-Scale Environmental Suitability Mapping for Aedes aegypti.”
HGG Lecture by Prof. Dr. Johannes Glückler
Latin America: Energy Powering the Future.

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