We start the project 'Geography - passion since childhood, inspiration for life' prepared under the governmental programme Społeczna Odpowiedzialność Nauki II. Current schoolyear 2023/2024 will witness a great jubilee of 50. edition of Geography Olympiad. To celebrate this magnificent occassion we want to share our passion and history of Olympiad - and show what we love geography for. About the project 'Geography - passion since childhood, inspiration for life' The project will consist of: Series of lectures 'What do geographers do?' - online meetings with geographers working on vari...

GeoNight2023 is coming! Also in 2023 Polish Geographical Society - the proud member of the Association of Geographical Societies in Europe EUGEO - supports "GeoNight", an initiative conceived to link countries on an international scale with small and medium events with geography in the heart. The aim is, also, to reach with our discipline even beyond the limits of the Academy, and to show an international interest and support for Geography. GeoNight2023 is on April 14th. More information are on the international GeoNight website. This is, and it will be, a work in progress, but now essenti...

On April 1, 2022, the achievements of MapoFaktura 2022 workshops have been presented as a part of GeoNight initiative. The event was organized by the students of tourism and recreation programme at the University of Lodz, Faculty of Geographical Sciences. The idea of MapoFaktura was created by the students of the course on social media in tourism offered by assist. prof. Tomasz Napierała. This was the third edition of this spectacular event. This year, participants got to know how to edit, process, and use spatial data for crisis management. MapoFaktura2022, including both workshops and online...

On the 2nd of March, 2022, the letter to Prof. Michael Meadows, President of the International Geographical Union, and Prof. Dr Barbaros Gönençgil, Secretary General of the IGU has been sent. Executives of the Polish Geographical Society asked to consider whether Russia should not be suspended as a full member of International Geographical Union. It must be clearly stated that this bottom-up initiative is supported by the entire community of the Polish Geographical Society and expresses solidarity with our Ukrainian colleagues. Letter to executives of the International Geographical Union De...

On Thursday, 24th of February 2022, in the early morning hours, Russia launched an unprecedented invasion of Ukraine. The Polish Geographical Society strongly condemns the extremely dangerous and completely unfounded aggression by Russia against an independent and undivided Ukraine. Unjustified and unprovoked aggression is a clear violation of international law. Ukraine is a democratic and sovereign country with beautiful aspirations expressed on the international forum, although facing many social and economic challenges. By bordering with many countries, it builds relations within Europe...

We are pleased to announce the new call for abstracts for the IALE 2022 European Landscape Ecology Congress (July 11-15, 2022). The IALE 2022 Congress is IALE 2021+1, originally scheduled in 2021 but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call is reopen for all researchers, policy makers and practitioners with a special interest in landscape ecology. The congress will have an European focus but we look forward to welcoming participants from around the world. Congress is organised by Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Geography and...

On the September 8, 2021, President of Polish Geographical Society, prof. Urszula Myga-PiÄ…tek declared, on behalf of our association, that PGS fully support the initiative of about joint declaration by geographical societies on global biodiversity and climate protection. The idea was initiated by the International Geographical Union, the Royal Geographical Society of Scotland and the Royal Geographical Society. Joint declaration by geographical societies Geographers have unique opportunities and responsibilities in the face of the global biodiversity and climate crises. Geography is a d...

The call for symposia is now open for the IALE 2021 European Landscape Ecology Congress, taking place July 5-9, 2021 in Warsaw, Poland. Congress is organised by Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw in partnership with European and Polish Associations for Landscape Ecology (IALE-Europe and PAEK). Goal of the IALE 2021 European Congress Congress aims to highlight landscape ecology as the transdisciplinary platform linking past, present and future. This approach is especially needed now w...

Dear EUGEO representatives, First of all, a happy and successful new year. With this mail I would like to inform you about some forthcoming activities and events of EUGEO. Firstly, the "Night of Geography 2020" will be held on 3rd April this year. This will be the fourth edition of GeoNight initiated by our French member society CNFG in 2017, in order to increase the recognition of geographical knowledge among the public. This initiative, has in the meantime become truly European and is increasingly taking on a worldwide dimension due to the active support of the International Geographi...