9th EUGEO Congress, Barcelona
9th EUGEO Congress, Barcelona 4-7 September 2023. Geography for our common future.
The 2023 congress took place between Monday, September 4 and Thursday, September 7, 2023 in Barcelona, organized by the Catalan Society of Geography and the University of Barcelona.
This ninth EUGEO congress has hosted sessions and papers to present research in Geography across Europe on a wide variety of topics, shaping some of the challenges facing humanity and the planet it shares today. Geography, by focusing on the interaction between people and the environment, is well placed to answer questions about the state of the world and propose solutions for our common future, as the theme of this congress reminds us.
The congress has had more than a hundred sessions on a diversity of topics related, among others, to cartography, toponymy, geographic information systems (GIS), forest fires, sustainable development, political and geopolitical geography, reindustrialization, climate change, transport and mobility at different scales, tourism, urban public spaces, didactics of geography, geography of the environment, geography and geopolitics, geography and geopolitics, geography of the environment, geography and geopolitics, geography of the environment, geography and geopolitics, didactics of Geography, housing, rural areas, urban planning, land use planning, renaturalization of urban spaces, demography, migrations, geographic heritage, landscape, river management, energy, culture, cross-border cooperation, gender perspective in Geography, education, regionalization, socio-environmental conflicts, geohumanities, sea level rise.
More than 700 people from all over Europe and even from other continents registered. The number of papers and posters received exceeded one thousand. Fifty scholarships have been given to university doctoral students and 45 volunteers have participated, who have been essential for the smooth running of the Congress.
The sessions, all of them face-to-face, were held at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Barcelona, 6, Montalegre Street, except for the inaugural session, which took place at the headquarters of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 47, Carme Street.
For the first time an EUGEO congress was multilingual: some papers were presented in Catalan, as well as in French and Spanish, although most were in English. The opening and closing sessions were simultaneously interpreted in Catalan, Spanish, French and English.
More about EUGEO and its congresses
EUGEO is an association of European Societies in Europe and was created between 1994 and 1996, and since 1997 operates as an international scientific association under Belgian law. The aim of EUGEO is to coordinate and promote activities of all geography societies of all member countries to advance the knowledge of Geography. However, it has no administrative structure of its own. It consists of an executive committee headed by Zoltan Kovács (Professor of Geography at the University of Szeged and member of the Geographical Institute of the Hungarian Research Center for Astronomy and Earth Sciences) and Massimiliano Tabusi (Professor of Geography at the Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy), president and secretary respectively.
The Catalan Society of Geography (SCG), a subsidiary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, is one of its members since 2004.
Every two years EUGEO, through one of its members, organizes a European Geography congress on the topics of research and teaching in this discipline. The previous congress was held in Prague in hybrid format from June 28 to July 1, 2021, still limited in capacity due to pandemic restrictions.
- 2007 - Amsterdam - Pathways for creative cities
- 2009 - Bratislava - Challenges for the European Geography in the 21st Century’
- 2011 - Londres - Geography's stake in Europe: People, environment, politics
- 2013 - Roma - Europe, what’s next?
- 2015 - Budapest - Convergences and divergences of Geography in Europe
- 2017 - Brussel·les - Geography for Europe
- 2019 - Galway - Re-imaging Europe’s Future Society and Landscapes
- 2021 - Praga - Sustainable geographies in the heart of Europe
- 2023 - Barcelona - Geography for our common future / Geografia per al nostre futur comú / Geografía para nuestro futuro común / La géographie au service de notre avenir commun