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Daily Archive for February 16th, 2014

Society for Supporting CitizenScience founded in Heidelberg

Posted in External Projects on Feb 16th, 2014

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 linkage [...]

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Visiting Professor Joao Porto is working on Disaster Mapping 2.0

Posted in Crowd Analyser, Uncategorized, VGI Group on Feb 16th, 2014

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 [...]

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