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digital-earth.eu
The digital-earth.eu project examines the use of geographic media in schools and teacher education. Geo-media is the visualisation of information from different media sources and is concerned with digital content and its processing based on place, position and location. Many geographic media are widely used for navigation and routing purposes. Cartographic communication has never been so easy to implement, therefore 21st century school education needs to include geo-media into daily work. Innovative approaches to teaching and learning are needed to study environments from local to global scale.
The digital-earth.eu network links innovative centres around Europe where geo-media use is well developed. Products, resources, experiences and ideas are shared between the centres and opened to the public wherever possible.
A digital-earth.eu infrastructure is under development. The European Centre and an accredited network of national and regional Centres of Excellence are developing an online catalogue of materials, courses, publications, links and good practice scenarios, and are publishing a series of core publications.
Centres of Excellence: Call for Applications launched at Geospatial World Forum 2012
digital-earth.eu was presented at the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam (April 23-27). Project partners from Salzburg University, EUROGEO and VLA attended the conference and discussed the network activities with policy makers and leading geospatial industrialists. More than 1000 participants from 78 countries attended GWF. At the main plenary session on “industry - institution connections”, the digital-earth.eu Call for Centres of Excellence was launched by the session chair, Karl Donert, in his opening address. He also presented the lobbying activities of the network in the session on the “Digital Agenda for Europe” and produced a manifesto for action, which has been confirmed by members of industry, professional bodies, academics and policy makers.
European institutions and experts in learning and teaching digital-earth are invited to apply for accreditation as a digital-earth.eu Centre of Excellence or digital-earth.eu Expert.
- Call for Applications - download application form here
- Link to GWF2012
digital-earth.eu Conference 2012: Meeting Geography in Manchester
The second digital-earth.eu Conference took place from April 11-15th in Manchester, UK. After one day of introduction and Special Interest Group workshops, delegates were invited to benefit from the GA Conference presentations and workshops held at Manchester University. At the final plenary, criteria of excellence and next steps on the way to a sustainable European network of Centres of Excellence in learning and teaching with digital-earth were discussed and defined.
For pictures of the event follow this link!
digital-earth.eu presented at Media and Learning 2011
More than 300 delegates present at the Media and Learning Conference attended digital-earth.eu screening on Nov. 24th, 2011. The presentation introduced the importance of geospatial information for school education by demonstrating online digital earth tools.
The First digital-earth.eu Conference
took place from July 4-8, 2011 in Salzburg, Austria
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