The Lars H. Backer Prize in memoriam of Mr. Lars H. Backer will be awarded for major contributions to the development of a geospatial foundation for official statistics or for significantly improving the relevance of geospatial statistics for evidence-based decision...

With still 11 weeks to conference start we are happy to share news that more than 30 abstracts for the main conference have been submitted, with more than 60 registrations. For the preconference workshop day, we have registered a lot of interest and are closing in on...

The European Forum for Geography and Statistics (EFGS) is pleased to invite you to this year’s conference that will be held in Oslo, Norway. The conference is organized by Statistics Norway and the Norwegian Mapping Authority. The main event will take place 24th –...

We are pleased to announce that registration for the European Forum for Geography and Statistics 2025 conference that will be held in Oslo is now open!  The main conference event will take place 24th – 25th September. In addition, there will be pre-conference...

On behalf of the European Forum for Geography and Statistics (EFGS), we invite to participate in the annual EFGS conference, which will take place in Norway from 23 to 25 September 2025. We are excited to meet in person again, which will foster stronger connections,...

GISCO (Eurostat) recently released a set of indicators on the accessibility to healthcare (hospitals) and primary education services (schools) (see here). This release concerns accessibility indicators to these basic services computed on the census 2021 1km resolution...