Day: 16 February 2014

  • Society for Supporting CitizenScience founded in Heidelberg

    A new German Society for supporting “Citizen Science” has been founded in Heidelberg: “Verein zur Förderung von Bürgerwissenschaft e.V.”. Among the founding members are several persons with links to the Department of Geography or the GIScience Research Group, such as Dr. Richard Leiner, Clemens Jakobs and Prof. Alexander Zipf. The society wants to strenghten the…

  • Visiting Professor Joao Porto is working on Disaster Mapping 2.0

    Prof. Dr. Joao Porto, a computer scientist from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil has received a grant by Heidelberg University funded through the DFG Initiative of Excellence that allows him to stay as visiting professor at the GIScience Research Group of Heidelberg University through 2014 and then returning to Heidelberg several times until 2017. His…