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Month: February 2015

  • Report on the first evaluation meeting of CAP4Access project

    On January 28, the evaluation meeting for the results of the first year of European FP7 project CAP4Access took place at European Commission in Brussels. Representatives of all project partners gave a presentation of the results and work-in-progress of their tasks which followed by questions from two external reviewers appointed by the European Commission. From the…

  • Children experiencing GIScience at the KinderUni Heidelberg

    On Saturday, 07.02.2015, the Neuenheimer Feld of the University Heidelberg was the area of interest for new “mappers” of the KinderUni workshop at the Institute of Geography. After an introduction about OpenStreetMap, the children between the age of 9-12 years were able to go out and do some mapping themselves. Equipped with GPS devices and…

  • PsychoGeography Project on Television

    During the last decades, the epidemiological research has given indications that mental diseases can be related to socio-economic, as well as to environmental risk factors. In cooperation between the newly founded Psychiatric-Epidemiological Centrum (PEZ) at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, the GIScience Research Group (Heidelberg University) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology…

  • Methods for Participation in Urban Planning in the Knowledge Society – New Project Accepted

    Recently a new joint project together with several groups at Heidelberg University has been accepted and is starting now. The interdisciplinary so called “Reallabor Urban Office” deals with sustainable urban development in the knowledge society and is coordinated by Prof. Gerhard (Geography of North America) and tightly linked to the Internationale Bauaustellung IBA Heidelberg. The…

  • Citizen Science Workshop in Osnabrück

    The German Federal Ecological Foundation organized together with the consortium „BürGEr schaffen WISSen (GEWISS)“ a citizen science workshop, which took place at the 26th and 27th of January. Participants from academia, industry and administration discussed recent trends and applications. Furthermore, group discussions regarding limitations and urgent problems of citizen science were also on the agenda.…

  • Disaster Mappers Heidelberg organize Talk on Humanitarian Mapping Technologies by Patrick Meier

    Thanks to the initative of the Disaster Mappers Heidelberg, Patrick Meier, co-founder of the StandbyTaskForce and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative will give a presentation on February 11th 2015 via videoconference at the Insitute of Geography, Großer Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48, Heidelberg at 4pm. Don’t miss this chance to learn more about Disaster Mapping, Crisis Mapping…

  • Two open thesis topics related to accessibility of mobility-restricted people

    As announced earlier in our blog, there are open thesis topics within the European project: CAP4Access. Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group is a project partner of CAP4ACCESS. Other project partners include UCL, Fraunhofer and sozialhelden.de with their wheelmap.org project. The goal of CAP4Access project is to improve the accessibility of mobility-restricted people, in particular those who are wheelchair users. As…

  • Last GIScience Colloquium Talk in WS 2014/15: Stephan Arnold on Land Monitoring in Europe

    The final talk of this semesters’ colloquium series of GIScience Heidelberg will take place next Thursday, the 05th of February, at 04:15 pm. It will be held by Stephan Arnold from the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden and is entitled “EAGLE – Eionet Action Group on Land monitoring in Europe“. The venue is the lecture…