Geomundus

GeoMundus is a symposium on different Geoscience disciplines including, but not limited to Geography, Earth and Environmental Studies, Geographic Information Science and Geoinformatics, Agriculture, Ecology and Environment, Disaster Management, and any other area in the broad field of Geoscience. This conference is organized by the students from the consortium of Erasmus Mundus (EM) International Master's program in Geospatial Technologies. Is a free of charge conference organized by students and for students. The conference will have participants from more than 25 countries, and is also an opportunity to hear from expert speakers from different fields of Geoscience.

An important objective of this conference is giving interchange opportunities to young researchers approaching academic and job market worlds by favoring networking between young researchers and professionals in geo-related sciences and industries. In order to achieve this objective, GeoMundus will be a scientific conference with peer-reviewed papers and posters, where young researchers present and discuss their work during the presentation sessions. They will have the opportunity to learn from and connect with their peers and innovators in various domains.

The first GeoMundus 2009 was successfully conducted at the Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação (ISEGI), Lisbon, Portugal followed by the second GeoMundus 2010 at Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Castellon, Spain and the third GeoMundus 2011 in Germany at the Münster Castle, University of Munster. This year it will again be at the Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação (ISEGI) in Lisobon, Portugal on Friday, November 9 and Saturday, November 10. The 2 day conference is focused on topics that include (but not limited to) geosciences, geography, earth and environment studies. There will be four paper presentation sessions, a career building session and two workshops, one on GIS and one for programming mobile apps for Android. There will also be three keynote speakers from NGos/UN, academia and the business communities.  We are pleased to announce that two of the keynote speakers will be Professor Mike Jackson, from the National Geospatial Center, University of Nottingham, UK and Prof. Dr. Martin Raubal, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.  The career session will begin with a presentation by Prof. Michael Gould, followed by an opportunity for participants to ask career-related questions of him and the keynote speakers.