Author: Tomasz Napierała

IALE 2021 European Congress: The Call for Symposia

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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...
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EUGEO President’s letter

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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...
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Letter from EUGEO President

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Dear EUGEO representatives, After the 7th EUGEO Congress that took place earlier in May I would like to provide you a short summary on some recent developments within the EUGEO community, and draw your attention to future plans and programmes. Firstly, the "Night of Geography 2019" was held on 5th April this year. This was already the third edition of the Nuits de la Géographie initiated by CNFG in order to increase the recognition of geographers and geographical knowledge among the public. This year the event really crossed the boundaries of Europe with location in Africa and the Pacif...
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Post-doc position in economic and urban geography in Ostrava

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The University of Ostrava (Czechia), Department of Human Geography and Regional Development offers a post-doc position in economic and urban geography. Position Status: 12-month duration, full-time. Location: Chittussiho 10, 710 00 Ostrava - Slezská Ostrava, the Czech Republic. Principal Investigator: doc. RNDr. Petr Rumpel, Ph.D. Salary: Net monthly wage will be approx. 2,300 EUR. Important Dates: Application opening: 15. March 2019 Position opening: position is available no later than from 1st September 2019 The successful candidate will join the Department of Human Geography ...
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Message of Polish Geographical Society to the people of Gdańsk, and to the all people of good will in Poland

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On the January 13th, 2019, the shocking, unjustified and incomprehensible barbarity happened. During the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity on last Sunday, the mayor of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz was murdered. We offer sincere and profound words of compassion and comfort to the family of the mayor, and people of Gdańsk including members of Gdańsk Branch of the PGS and the geographical community of the University of Gdańsk. We join the relatives and friends of the mayor, share your immeasurable pain, and assure of our support and prayers. Death of the mayor Paweł Adamowicz makes us reflect an...
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2nd RELOCAL Project Conference “The Role of the Local in Improving Cohesion and Spatial Justice”

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We are pleased to invite you to the 2nd RELOCAL Project Conference "The Role of the Local in Improving Cohesion and Spatial Justice: integrating place-based with top-down approaches to local development", which will take place on 7th March 2019 at the premises of Lodz Agency for Regional Development and will be hosted by the Department of Regional and Social Geography, University of Lodz, Poland. The RELOCAL Horizon 2020 Project is funded by the European Commission and runs from 2016 to 2020. The conference intends to provide the debate on contemporary approaches to local development addre...
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IV International Scientific Conference – Problems and Challenges of Transport Geography

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Problemy Wyzwania Geografi Komunikacji
We have a great honour to invite you to: IV International Scientific Conference – Problems and challenges of Transport Geography. The main objective of the conference is to create a proper environment for scientific discussion focused around theoretical, methodological and empirical problems of transport geography. It will also be a great opportunity to identify some research challenges while ensuring closer integration between scientific and research circles in Poland as it used to take place during historical meetings of transport geography in Arłamów and Polańczyk. We hereby invite all res...
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Solemn visit of the representatives of The Geographical Society of China

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On October 15, 2018 in the Staszic Palace in Warsaw a solemn meeting of representatives of the Main Board of The Polish Geographical Society with representatives of The Geographical Society of China took place. The visit initiated by the Chinese side, was a part of the celebrations of The Year of Polish Geography and the 100th Anniversary of The Polish Geographical Society. Nine-member delegation from China was headed by prof. Bojie Fu - Chairman of The Geographical Society of China and Vice-Chairman of The International Geographical Union. Other members of delegation were also: prof. Shujin ...
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Letter from EUGEO President

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Dear EUGEO representatives, After the summer holiday season I would like to update you on some recent developments within the EUGEO community and on some forthcoming actions. Firstly, the French initiative of the "Night of Geography 2018" held on 6th April 2018 was a real success. This was the second edition of the Nuits de la Géographie initiated by CNFG in order to increase the recognition of geographers and geographical knowledge among the public. Thanks to the active involvement of our member societies the initiative has grown really to a European scale campaign this year with aroun...
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Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society indexed in Emerging Sources Citation

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We are pleased to inform that Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society has been selected for coverage in Clarivate Analytics products and services. Beginning with volume 32(1) 2018, this publication will be indexed and abstracted in Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science). Feel invited to submit your manuscript: http://prace-kgp.up.krakow.pl/. The journal has been published since 2000 by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Spatial Management at the Institute of Geography (Pedagogical University of Cracow) and the Industrial Geography Com...
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