Vespucci Initiative 7th Annual Summer Institute

07 May 2009, 4:05pm

The Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science announces the 7th Annual Summer Institute on Geographic Information Science
Florence (Firenze), Italy : June-July 2009

29 June to 3 July 2009 : "Cognitive Processing and Representations of Place, Space, and Time "

6 to 10 July 2009: "INSPIRE implementation"

Download the Vespucci Summer School 2009 Flyer at the link below.

Celebrating the fifth centenary of Vespucci's discoveries, the Vespucci Initiative recaptures his spirit of multi-disciplinary intellectual enquiry to explore new frontiers of knowledge. To that end it organizes and conducts a range of research and teaching activities, bringing together senior scientists and promising young researchers from around the world. This unique interdisciplinary mix creates what has been called the Medici Effect. (Perhaps it is no coincidence that the summer institutes are held in Florence!) What these particular researchers have in common is a special interest in the locational aspects of societal challenges. These aspects are being studied and exploited in the emerging field of Geographic Information Science and are being implemented within the GIS, Location Based Systems (LBS) and other industries.

The Institute builds on the successes of the Summer Schools organized by the European Science Foundation's GISDATA programme and the (US) National Science Foundation's National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis in 1995-97. The Institute is open to post-graduate researchers in the academic, public, and private sectors selected on a competitive basis through an open call for expression of interest.

The language of the Institute is English.

Vespucci Summer School 2009 Flyer

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