Activities
A series of 12 specialist meetings
Two strategic reviews
Two NSF-ESF Summer Institutes in 1995 and in 1996
Programme management
The Steering Committee is chaired by Professor Ian Masser (Dept. of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, UK)
There are 15 contributing organisations
More about the programme
- enhance existing national research efforts and promote collaborative ventures overcoming European-wide limitations in spatial data integration, data base design, and social and environmental applications;
- increase awareness of the political, cultural, organisational, and technical and informational barriers to an increased utilisation and inter-operability of GIS in Europe;
- promote the ethical use of integrated information systems, including GIS, which handle socio-economic data by respecting the legal restrictions on data privacy at the national and European level;
- facilitate the development of appropriate methodologies for GIS research at the European level;
- produce outputs of high scientific value;
- build-up a European network of researchers with particular emphasis on young researchers in the GIS field.
