IALE 2022 European Congress – New congress date: 11-15 July 2022!

Posted on Friday April 9th, 2021 by Tomasz Napierała Posted in Calendar, Conferences

We regret to inform that due to the ongoing difficulties arising from the coronavirus pandemic we have been forced to postpone the IALE European Landscape Ecology Congress to July, 11-15, 2022 (Warsaw, Poland). Congress is organised by the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw in partnership with European and Polish Associations for Landscape Ecology (IALE-Europe and PAEK). The venue will remain the Old Library of the University of Warsaw, Poland. The new call for abstracts will st...

The Visegrad Atlas has been published

Posted on Thursday March 11th, 2021Tuesday April 27th, 2021 by Tomasz Napierała Posted in News, Reviews

In February 2021, the Wacław Felczak Institute for Polish-Hungarian Cooperation (IWPW) and the Polish Geographical Society (PTG) published the Visegrad Atlas. It is the result of the project carried out by PTG and was financed by IWPW. Its aim is to show the geographical specificity of the countries forming the Visegrad Group: Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia in their natural, socio-cultural and economic diversity. The publication is also an attempt at a comprehensive description of the phenomena and processes resulting from the intertwining of the historical and contemporary development...

EUGEO 2021 Congress on the Geography of Europe

Posted on Thursday February 4th, 2021Thursday February 4th, 2021 by Tomasz Napierała Posted in Calendar, Conferences

On bahalf of EUGEO The Association of Geographical Societies in Europe, we are sending you up-to-date information about the 8th EUGEO Congress, which will take place in Prague (Czechia) from the 28th June to the 1st July 2021. Due to unpredictable situation around the coronavirus pandemic, the 8th EUGEO Congress will be organized as a fully hybrid event, which means that participants will be allowed to choose between physical and online participation. EUGEO 2021 main topic The main topic of the congress, Sustainable geographies in the heart of Europe, refers to the passion geographers ha...

IALE 2021 European Congress: The Call for Symposia

Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2020Wednesday March 17th, 2021 by Tomasz Napierała Posted in News

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...

EUGEO President’s letter

Posted on Monday January 27th, 2020Wednesday December 15th, 2021 by Tomasz Napierała Posted in News

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...

Letter from EUGEO President

Posted on Friday July 26th, 2019Wednesday December 15th, 2021 by Tomasz Napierała Posted in News

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...

Post-doc position in economic and urban geography in Ostrava

Posted on Saturday March 30th, 2019Wednesday May 6th, 2020 by Tomasz Napierała Posted in News

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 ...

Message of Polish Geographical Society to the people of Gdańsk, and to the all people of good will in Poland

Posted on Friday January 18th, 2019Thursday February 24th, 2022 by Tomasz Napierała Posted in News

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...

2nd RELOCAL Project Conference “The Role of the Local in Improving Cohesion and Spatial Justice”

Posted on Sunday January 13th, 2019Monday November 2nd, 2020 by Tomasz Napierała Posted in Calendar, Conferences

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...

IV International Scientific Conference – Problems and Challenges of Transport Geography

Posted on Tuesday December 11th, 2018Monday November 2nd, 2020 by Tomasz Napierała Posted in Calendar, Conferences

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...