From March 18-21, the UN-GGCE convened the Second Meeting of the UN-GGCE International Advisory Committee and the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the UN-GGIM Subcommittee on Geodesy. The meetings included a workshop to discuss the findings in the Draft Global Geodesy Needs Assessment. In these meetings, Europe was well represented. The representatives agreed to continue the

The Eleventh Plenary meeting for UN-GGIM: Arab States was held in Doha, Qatar from 4th to 8th February 2023. The annual Plenary meeting drew Member States together from across the region to share progress, inform national updates and collaborate on regional priorities. To foster collaboration and knowledge sharing across the Regional Groups representatives from each

UN-GGIM expert consultation meetings were held in Aguascalientes, Mexico from 22-26 January 2024 . The consultation focused on advancing the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF), cooperation with the SDG Data Alliance as well as an Expanded Bureau Meeting of UN-GGIM. Frank Tierolff, co-chair of UN-GGIM Europe, represented the European Regional Committee during the sessions. Key

The United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence was inaugurated on the 29 March 2023 at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany. This is an exciting milestone in the journey for global geodesy. A journey that started ten years ago when the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) decided to

The Seventh Plenary Meeting of the European Region of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM: Europe) was held on the 22 – 23 June 2020 as a virtual event. The Plenary Meeting overlapped with the 2020 Plenary Session of the Conference of European Statisticians, with a common session organised

Tomaž Petek, Chair of UN-GGIM: Europe, presented at the European Space Agency workshop “Space Powering the Green Deal and Digital Innovation“.  The workshop was jointly organised by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education, the Faculty of Electrical Engineer and Computing of the Zagreb University and the European Space Agency under the auspices of the

The UN-GGIM: Europe Work Group on Data Integration met in Frankfurt/Main at the premises of Germany’s Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) on 30-31 October 2019 to define the new work plan for the period 2019-2022. 30 participants from 20 European Member States and the European Commission agreed to focus on three main tasks

Climate change adaptation and mitigation, rapid urbanization, increasing natural disasters, migration issues and unresolved humanitarian conflicts are some of today’s global challenges. More than 200 experts from 21 countries and 12 international organizations met in Vrdnik, Serbia at the international conference: Digitally enabled development for a sustainable future in Eastern Europe, to discuss how digital

The Sixth Plenary Meeting of the European Region of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM: Europe) was held from 5 – 6 June 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. The Plenary Meeting of UN-GGIM: Europe was hosted by Eurostat. The Sixth Plenary Meeting of UN-GGIM: Europe brought together senior executives and