We encourage you to see the final programme of EFGS 2021
| CEST | Day 1, 7th September | |
| 9:00 – 9:35 | Webinar Opening & Welcome speeches | |
| Dr. Georg Thiel, President of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany | ||
| Prof. Dr. Paul Becker, President of the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy | ||
| Viveka Palm, Director for the Department of Sectoral and Regional Statistics at Eurostat | ||
| Dr. Janusz Dygaszewicz, President of the European Forum for Geography and Statistics | ||
| 9:35 – 10:55 | Keynotes Moderation: Marie Haldorson, Statistics Sweden |
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| Robert Szucs, Grasshopper Geography | ||
| Stefan Jensen, European Environment Agency | ||
| Kira Schacht, Deutsche Welle | ||
| Discussion | ||
| 10:55 – 11:15 | Virtual Coffee Break Networking |
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| 11:15 – 12:10 | Session 1 - The Frame Moderation: Oliver Müller, Eurostat |
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| Geocoding and the Spatial Analysis of Population and Housing Census Data in Africa Ayenika Godheart, Andre Nonguierma, William Muhwava - United Nations Economic Commission for Africa |
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| Mapping for a Sustainable World – A UN-ICA Collaboration Prof. Dr. Menno-Jan Kraak - International Cartographic Association |
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| The Progress and Future of the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework Alex Mudabeti - National Statistics Agency Namibia, Co-Chair of the UN EG ISG |
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| UN-GGIM: Europe – keeping up with a changing landscape Carol Agius, James Norris, Cátia Nunes - EuroGeographics, UN-GGIM: Europe Secretariat, Ordnance Survey, Statistics Portugal |
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| Geospatial View of Generic Statistical Business Process Model InKyung Choi - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
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| UNGGIM: Europe Working Group on Data Integration – findings, challenges and obstacles Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu - Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy |
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| Discussion | ||
| 12:10 – 13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Session 2 - The Frame Moderation: Ingrid Vanden Berghe, National Geographic Institute Belgium | |
| 13:05 | Australian Bureau of Statistics and Geoscience Australia - Successful Collaboration on Location and Geospatial Information Simon Costello, Martin Brady - Geoscience Australia, Australian Bureau of Statistics | |
| 13:15 | From one-to-one NMCA-NSO collaboration to cross-governmental network for promoting integration of statistical and geospatial information – First-light experiences in Finland Panu Muhli, Rina Tammisto - National Land Survey of Finland, Statistics Finland | |
| 13:25 | GIS and the SDGs Linda Peters - Esri | |
| 13:35 | gvSIG Online as a Spatial Data Infrastructure in local administration Mario Carrera - gvSIG Association |
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| 13:45 | Geospatial ethics for statistics Alistair Calder - ONS Office for National Statistics, UK | |
| 13:55 | Discussion | |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Virtual Coffee Break Networking | |
| 14:45 – 16:15 | Session 3 - Presentation Lounge | |
| Non profit agriculture in rural areas in Italy: a geospatial knowledge infrastructure based on data integration Roberto Gismondi - Italian National Institute of Statistics | ||
| IRENE: a next-generation crop yield forecasting system for Italian agriculture Sofia Bajocco - Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment |
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| A Digital Twin precursor for drought impact monitoring: an Earth Observation based spatio-temporal data-cube Eva Ivits, Grega Milcinski, Maxim Lamare, Roel Van Hoolst, Bruno Smets, Lars Eklundh - European Environment Agency, Sinergise, Sentinel Hub, VITO, VITO, Lund University" |
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| Digital Twin Germany – A feasibility study Patrick Knöfel - Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy |
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| The address component of the Statistical Base Register of Territorial Entities Davide Fardelli - Italian National Institute of Statistics |
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| Characterization of the Andalusian population using Python and QGIS Luís Ángel Moya, Mº Encarnación Madrid, Francisco Javier Rodrigues, Miguel Sanz - Andalusian Healthcare Regional Department |
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| Facing uncertainty in geospatial data through statistical and geospatial data integration Rossano Figueiredo, Rui Pedro Julião - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa |
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| Digital Atlases Karsten Schmidt - Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy |
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| Methods and perspectives of geospatial statistical data integration – observations from the taskgroup UN-GGIM: Europe Nathalie Delattre, Markus Jobst - National Geographic Institute, Subgroup Leader UN-GGIM: Europe WG on Data Integration, Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying |
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| UN-GGIM: Europe – showcasing the added-value of geospatial and statistical data integration to compute SDG indicators Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu, Francisco Vala, Cátia Nunes, Eva Ivits, Fabio Volpe, Jerker Moström - Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Statistics Portugal, Statistics Portugal, European Environment Agency, e-GEOS, Statistics Sweden |
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| Geoportal.de 2.0 Benjamin Richter - Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy |
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| Cadastral information. Geocoding of real estate in Andalusia Joaquín Valverde-Martínez, Serafín Ojeda-Casares, Ana Ramírez-Torres - IECA, Indexa Geodata |
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| CEST | Day 2, 8th September | |
| 9:00 – 11:55 | Session 4 - The Key Moderation: Lea Bodossian, EuroGeographics | |
| 9:05 | GEOSTAT 4: The GSGF in Europe Rina Tammisto, Mervi Haakana - Statistics Finland | |
| 9:15 | GEOSTAT 4 - The role of quality for geospatial statistics Thomas Burg - Statistics Austria | |
| 9:25 | Grid-based analysis in regional and urban policy: a state of play Hugo Poelman - European Commission - DG Regional and Urban Policy | |
| 9:35 | Linked Open Data - enrich existing open datasets with thematic content in a very easy fashion Dr. Falk Würriehausen - Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy | |
| 9:45 | Integrating Spatial and Statistical Data in the Web Environment Pekka Latvala - National Land Survey of Finland | |
| 9:55 | Discussion | |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Virtual Coffee Break Networking | |
| 10:45 | New Methods for Statistical Disclosure Control with High Resolution Spatial Information Jan Weymeirsch - Trier University | |
| 10:55 | Heading towards spatial knowledge infrastructures – the role of the fundamental data theme ’Addresses’ for data integration Ingrid Kaminger, Markus Jobst - Statistics Austria, Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying | |
| 11:05 | Revealing Future Geospatial API’s – case GeoE3 Jari Reini - National Land Survey of Finland | |
| 11:15 | Customer expectations and innovation in the field of geospatial reference data: A case study on market transparency Peter Creuzer, Dr. Marcel Ziems - Landesamt für Geoinformation und Landesvermessung Niedersachsen (LGLN) | |
| 11:25 | Harmonised Labour Market Area Definitions: potential for multi-national local analysis Mike Coombes - CURDS (Centre for Urban & Regional Development Studies), Newcastle University | |
| 11:35 | Discussion | |
| 11:55 – 13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:00 – 15:25 | Session 5 A - The Unlocked Value (Parallel Session) The Value of Data Integration and What’s Missing Moderation: Timothy Trainor, International Cartographic Association | |
| 13:10 | Contribution of the NIVA project in unlocking value from IACS data Dominique Laurent - Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière | |
| 13:20 | Unlocking the value of authoritative geospatial information through a unique approach to interoperable pan-European datasets Angela Baker, Rhian French - EuroGeographics Head Office | |
| 13:30 | Development of a database for geospatial accessibility data on grid cell level Axel Ramstein - Federal Statistical Office of Germany | |
| 13:40 | Calculating commuting distances: challenges of a mandate and method transfer Elfie Swerts, Michael Bühler - Office Fédéral de la Statistique | |
| 13:50 | Discussion | |
| 14:05 – 14:35 | Virtual Coffee Break Networking | |
| 14:35 | Analysing changing mobility patterns during the pandemic using mobile network data Younes Saidani, Hans Dietrich - Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Esri Germany | |
| 14:45 | Mobility monitoring during the Covid-19 crisis in Estonia Erki Saluveer - Positium | |
| 14:55 | Calculating access to private outside space during a global pandemic Jordan Parker, Iain Goodwin, Max Engledew - Office for National Statistics, Ordnance Survey, Office for National Statistics | |
| 15:05 – 15:25 | Discussion and change of rooms | |
| 13:00 – 15:25 | Session 5 B - The Unlocked Value (Parallel Session) COVID-19-Session Martin Brady, Australian Bureau of Statistics | |
| 13:00 | From the EAGLE concept to national LC and LU data Stephan Arnold, Dr. Christian Lucas - Federal Statistical Office of Germany, LVermGeo Schleswig-Holstein | |
| 13:10 | Service geoportal.gov.pl as an example of unlocking value from data Ewa Surma, Waldemar Izdebski - Main Office of Geodesy and Cartography (PL) | |
| 13:20 | Covid impacts on Census-taking and time-space population modelling David Martin, Samantha Cockings, Andrew Harfoot - Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton | |
| 13:30 | The JRC-GEOSTAT 2018: a novel small-area population estimation for Europe Filipe Batista e Silva, Hugo Poelman, Lewis Dijkstra - JRC; European Commission, DG Regio | |
| 13:40 | Digitisation and Integration of Historical Census Statistics for England and Wales Justin Hayes, Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Christian Clausner - Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Research Lab (PRImA), the University of Salford | |
| 13:50 | Discussion | |
| 14:05 – 14:35 | Virtual Coffee Break Networking | |
| 14:35 | New and improved tools for spatial statistics Mirosław Migacz, Klaudia Peszat - Statistics Poland | |
| 14:45 | Sustainability assessment of settlement development with multi-dimensional spatial data: Experiences of spatial data harmonization for the IÖR-Monitor Tobias Krüger, Sujit Kumar Sikder, Gotthard Meinel - Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development | |
| 14:55 | Integration of statistical and geospatial information in Egypt Eng. Eman, Ahmed Oriby - Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), Egypt | |
| 15:05 – 15:25 | Discussion and change of rooms | |
| 15:35 – 15:40 | Closing Session | |
| Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy | ||
| 15:40 – 16:10 | General Assembly | |
The programme of EFGS 2021 conference is also available to download in pdf.