by Admin | Nov 17, 2025 | News
The Earth Observation for Official Statistics and policy indicators reporting Conference (StatEO26) will take place from 5 to 7 May 2026 at ESA-ESRIN, in Frascati (Italy). The conference is co-organised with DG ESTAT, DG JRC, DG DEFIS, DG ENV, EARSC, EEA, OECD, UNSD,...Read article
by Admin | Nov 17, 2025 | News
The Lars H. Backer Prize 2025 in memoriam of Mr. Lars H. Backer was awarded to Rina Tammisto (Statistics Finland) due to her many significant contributions to the integration of geospatial data and statistics over the past 20 years. Rina was always there, connecting...Read article
by Admin | Nov 17, 2025 | News
The EFGS 2025, held in Oslo (Norway), being hosted and organised by Statistics Norway, was a special event as this edition included pre-conference activities related to training on the day before the conference (23rd September). The pre-conference day included 10...Read article
by Admin | Aug 18, 2025 | News
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...Read article
by Admin | Jul 3, 2025 | News
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...Read article
by Admin | Jun 5, 2025 | News
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...Read article
by Admin | Jun 5, 2025 | News
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...Read article
by Admin | Mar 24, 2025 | News
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...Read article
by Admin | Feb 17, 2025 | News
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...Read article
by Admin | Jan 8, 2025 | News
The Lars H. Backer Prize 2024 in memoriam of Mr. Lars H. Backer was awarded to the Republic Geodetic Authority of Serbia and Statistics Poland, respectively, for their major contributions to the development of a geospatial foundation for official statistics or for...Read article
