EFGS 2026 Conference
30 September – 2 October 2026
Brussels, Belgium
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The first laureate of Lars H. Backer Prize
European Forum of Geography and Statistics has pleasure to inform that Marja Tammilehto-Luode was awarded the very first “Lars H. Backer Prize” at EFGS 2016 Conference in Paris. Marja Tammilehto-Luode has been a leading figure in the development of European Spatial...
Table Joining Service (TJS)
Statistics Netherlands has recently performed a proof of concept for a Table Joining Service (TJS) together with the Dutch Kadaster, Geonovum and the Dutch hosting organisation for INSPIRE services PDOK. This was done with the help of a Eurostat Grant. It resulted in...
EFGS 2016 Conference – all presentations now available on-line
We have a pleasure to inform, that all presentations from EFGS 2016 Conference in Paris are now available online. You can find them on the conference website: http://www.efgs2016.eu/ ( access by session ). All presentation will be soon submited on EFGS website.
INSPIRE Conference 2016
This year’s annual INSPIRE Conference took place in Barcelona on September 26th-30th. Janusz Dygaszewicz – President of the European Forum for Geography and Statistics had the opportunity to present the forum on a plenary session “INSPIRE by thematic communities”. He...
State of European Cities Report 2016 published
In partnership with UN Habitat, the U.N. programme working towards a better urban future, the European Commission released the State of European Cities Report 2016. It supports the Urban Agenda by assessing the performance of European cities with regards to its...
New Global Human Settlement Layer website and report
The Global Human Settlement Layer project of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre has a new website: http://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ It features the "Atlas of the Human Planet", presenting the key findings of the analysis of the Global Human Settlement Layer...