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45-422: EGEA also provide publications in partnership with EuroGeography . They operate in 32 European nations and have over 3,000 active participants. The aims of EGEA are to offer personal development opportunities to young geographers across Europe, and enable them to fulfill their potential as young scientists. EGEA provides complementary and alternative learning opportunities, beyond formal education of geography. This

90-537: A European perspective and represent nationally and internationally the views of its members. EUROGEO activities include organising events, producing publications, supporting geographers in their jobs and careers, the teaching of geographical sciences, identifying and promoting good practise, co-operating with the European Union, Council of Europe, European Commission and other relevant organisations; lobbying at global, European and where relevant national level, providing

135-566: A European perspective. EUROGEO cooperates with many other international institutions and associations including the AAG , SEAGA and the International Geographical Union ( IGU ) and is a stakeholder organisation in the UNEP , EyeonEarth and "Geo for All" initiatives. EUROGEO members are geographers and related professionals who work in the public, private, and academic sectors. They work in

180-407: A forum for the discussion of matters of common interest to geographers, giving advice on geography and making recommendations to policy makers. EUROGEO was first established in 1979 under the name of European Standing Conference of Geography Teachers Association (ESCGTA). In the beginning it was an association of associations. In 1994, when other European countries became members, the association took

225-564: A participative member of the Conference of International NGOs of the Council of Europe. The association is involved in national and international activities and projects in geography including those related to education and training. It is a not profit organisation, which aims to develop, support and promote policies designed to advance the status of geography; establish and promote cross-border cooperation; promote education and training in geography from

270-674: A program by the EU , "Youth in Action" as well as a partnership to a program by the Council of Europe , "European Youth Forum". There are also cooperations with ESRI , a supplier of GIS programs, and with the Utrecht University . Heeg Heeg ( Dutch: [ɦeːx] ; West Frisian : Heech [heːχ] ) is a village in Súdwest Fryslân municipality in the province Friesland of

315-632: A result of the discussions that took place at several Herodot meetings. At the annual meeting of EUROGEO in Liverpool in September 2008, member associations unanimously agreed to change the legal status and remit of the association. This was presented to HERODOT partners, after which members of the EUROGEO Presidium and the HERODOT Core Group held a joint meeting to form a working group to restructure

360-409: A wide range of careers, as teachers and trainers, state and local government employees, planners, cartographers, scientists, non-profit workers, entrepreneurs, business people, graduate students, retirees, and university administrators. There are three categories of membership: EUROGEO has published a large number of books, articles, magazines and conference proceedings and the society has developed

405-488: Is "to develop and pilot an online professional development communications platform for teacher preparation in geography." This includes resources (teaching materials and communications tools), international collaboration and online teacher exchanges. EUROGEO participates in the SeaChange Horizon 2020 Project, raising awareness of the importance of Ocean Literacy. The project aims to establish a fundamental "Sea Change" in

450-528: Is Luxembourg. This region contains all entities of countries that are located around the Mediterranean Sea. There are entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey. The Board consists of six persons, four of whom fulfill the functions of President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. These four Board members are elected by

495-476: Is a 3-year project with a key objective to create teacher training materials to develop teachers as curriculum leaders through a capabilities approach . The project embraces diversity in culture and language and in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards. The project believes that a capabilities approach helps geography educators in all jurisdictions articulate the relevance and power of learning how to think geographically. The key output

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540-666: Is divided into four administrative regions: the North & Baltic, the Eastern, the Western and the Euro-Mediterranean regions. Every region elects a new Regional Contact Person each year. As helping hands they have one or more Regional Assistants. Together they form the Regional Teams. The function of Regional Contact Person was introduced in 2012 to relieve EGEA's board members of coordinating

585-480: Is done by encouraging and enabling involvement in intercultural interaction, as well as by development of academic, scientific, cultural and professional activities intended for young geographers on terms of equality, diversity and non-discrimination. EGEA actively contributes towards the promotion of geography through its network capabilities and through strategic partnerships, with the ultimate goal to strengthen geography’s place in members’ local communities. The EGEA

630-425: Is to empower young people to become engaged and affect EU youth policy. An e-tool will be produced to close the gap between youth and institutions by collecting the perceived needs of youth in key policy areas and providing guidelines to public institutions that help address them. Through training YouthMetre will provide youngsters with necessary skills and knowledge to foster effective implementation by policy makers of

675-587: The Council of Europe . Since this time representatives from the association have participated in NGO meetings in Strasbourg , being the voice of geography and geographers there. In 2003 the status of EUROGEO, along with other NGOs, was reviewed and the association became a fully participating NGO at the Council of Europe. In 1999 a successful application was made by EUROGEO for a European Minerva Project (Euro.Geo) to produce materials that promote European citizenship through

720-710: The Netherlands and had a population of around 2,175 in January 2017. Because of its location on the Heegermeer Lake, eel fishery and trade have been important to Heeg for a long time. Until 1938, eels from Heeg were exported to London. The Hegemers could thereby make use of the Dutch Mooring (Dutch landing) at the Thames , not far from the Tower of London . The trade was so important to

765-641: The Annual Congress held in September. Congresses always include workshops, excursions, trainings, and lectures with a scientific background. There are also meetings for Contact Persons of the entities and regional or international assemblies. Students exchanges are the core activities of EGEA. They enable small groups from 2 or 3 EGEA entities to visit each other in their countries, learn about culture, explore local habits and experience that country's natural environment. Most importantly, they enable young geographers to get to know their international peers. Following

810-783: The Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia (except for Kaliningrad and Saint Petersburg), Slovakia and Ukraine. The countries in this region that currently don't have active entities are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia and Moldova. By members and entities the Western Region is the largest administrative region of EGEA. It comprises the British Isles, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and parts of France. The country in this region that currently doesn't have an active entity

855-732: The EGEA. In most cases there is a main theme to show particular regional or local characteristics. The programme can be scientific or have a more informal level. Some of the regional weekend activities, such as those in the Baltic states, the Slavic countries, Germany, the Benelux countries, the Iberian peninsula and the Balkans, are mainly aimed at people from that region, whereas other weekends are open to all EGEA members. EGEA

900-749: The EUROGEO Annual meeting held in Madeira, Portugal at elections for new Presidium Karl Donert was elected President of the association. In 2002, the proposal to establish a Socrates-Erasmus Thematic Network project on university Geography and the Bologna Process funded by the European Commission was successful. This was the HERODOT Network for Geography in Higher Education. This thematic network

945-503: The Erasmus +, Jean Monnet, Citizenship and Horizon 2020 Programmes. Since 2009, the number of innovative geographical projects EUROGEO has been involved in has increased. Four types of projects have been developed and supported i) networks, ii) multilateral projects iii) awareness raising and iv) support for associations. EUROGEO has been responsible for the creation of networks of academics and educators on specific priority themes, such as

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990-726: The European Journal of Geography. The European Journal of Geography published its first issue in 2010 and since then has regularly produced issues and widely cited articles on geographical themes relevant to the activities of the association. In February 2014 the European Journal of Geography was accepted and indexed in Scopus . EUROGEO is associated with the geography education journal, the Review of International Geographical Education Online, which developed as an initiative from HERODOT members. EUROGEO regularly applies for new projects, currently under

1035-603: The General Assembly out of individuals from the Association. A representative of the entity chosen to organise the Annual Congress was also a member of the board, but this latter position was replaced by an elected Event and Public Relations Advisor at the General Assembly of 2015. The Board represents and is the executive body of the Association. The Board is supported by the Secretariat Coordinator, previously called

1080-573: The Net Yn 't Net tennis club, the SSS Heeg gymnastics club and its own ice club. Heeg has two primary schools located in the same building: CBS It Wrâldfinster and the catholic St. Jozefschool. [REDACTED] Media related to Heeg at Wikimedia Commons EUROGEO-European Association of Geographers EUROGEO is a European scientific society, which networks geographers . It is an international non-governmental organisation. Since 1987 EUROGEO has been

1125-533: The Regional Restructuring went into effect, turning the previous four regions into three new regions. EGEA has several teams (previously committees), carrying out important work to keep the association up and running. Currently the following teams are active within EGEA: EGEA has several partnerships with organizations like EUROGEO , IAAS , ISHA ,and Studyportals . Furthermore, there is a partnership to

1170-586: The Secretariat Director, whose seat is the office at the EGEA headquarters in Utrecht. This position was first created in 2005 and contrived by the entity of Utrecht. In 2016 also the grant team with its coordinator was created to take care of financial grants. The Regional Contact Persons maintain the contact between the entities in their respective regions and the European Board. At the Annual Congress 2024,

1215-424: The agreement, one entity is hosting the other one. During the hosting time young people take care of the accommodation, food, and programme. Later on, the hosting entity becomes the visiting one and repays the visit. Exchanges are numerously the most attended activities, when taking into consideration number of events taking place every year. Each year at the Annual Congress there is also a scientific symposium, where

1260-610: The association as a membership organisation. After lengthy discussions both organisations held a joint meeting in Ayvalık , Turkey in June 2009, where the new EUROGEO association held its first elections and passed its revised statutes. Karl Donert was then elected president of EUROGEO. This was the final meeting of the HERODOT network. The new, restructured organisation now deals with educational, scientific, research and applied parts of Geography with

1305-648: The best known. This shipyard was established more than 300 years ago. In the center of the village are a few buildings from the 18th century including the Dutch Reformed Church from 1745. Before 2011, the village was part of the Wymbritseradiel municipality. The village has the sailing club WSHeeg, as well as other clubs related to water sports. It also has the VV Heeg football club, the Heecherop volleyball club,

1350-586: The bi-annual meetings that were originally organised and funded by the European Commission in Brussels. EUROGEO was led by a small committee of volunteers headed by Henk Meier representing the Dutch Geographical Association (KNAG). In between each of these conferences a EUROGEO bulletin was published. In 1987 EUROGEO applied for and was accepted as an international NGO with representation at

1395-476: The central meeting point for all EGEA members across Europe.At the 2009 General Assembly in Heeg a change of EGEA's legal status was decided. Since then EGEA is working as an association. Until 2014 EGEA has grown from its initial three entities to a current number of 90 entities in 36 different countries. There are several local, national, and international activities organized by the entities of EGEA. The main events of

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1440-855: The digitalearth.eu: geomedia in schools network (Lifelong Learning Programme), where a number of Digital Earth Centres of Excellence were accredited, and since 2013, the School on the Cloud network: connecting education to the Cloud for digital citizenship. EUROGEO has participated in a large number of multi-lateral education development projects. These have established training of teachers and educators in important geographical areas, such as GIS (the iGuess and iGuess 2 Projects), data and statistics in schools (the I-Use Project) and more recently powerful disciplinary knowledge (the GeoCapabilities project). GeoCapabilities

1485-483: The funded network. Under HERODOT, Geography became a subject assessed under the project Tuning Educational Structures in Europe. By 2009 HERODOT had connected more than 300 organizations throughout all European countries and 60 partners from other countries around the world. These partners joined HERODOT meetings and workshops to share their ideas, innovations and best practice online and face-to-face. The broad partnership of

1530-470: The guidelines provided by the "Youthmetre". In 2013 EUROGEO was awarded a Jean Monnet grant for pan-European associations. The Association organizes events and activities for members, the most relevant of these is the annual conference and the Annual Meeting. EUROGEO is managed by its Presidium, which consists of a President, Secretary General, and Treasurer and up to five Vice Presidents. The Presidium

1575-495: The members are able to present their scientific work, for example diploma or PhD theses. There are a few seminars every year, always organized by several entities. The seminars are held on a scientific level that cover different themes in the particular disciplines of geography. During the semester breaks in summer and winter EGEA also gives students the chance to participate at self-organized summer- or winterschools. The national or international weekend activities are organized by

1620-539: The name of its bulletin, EUROGEO: European Network of Geography Teachers´ Associations. The principal aims of that organisation were to advise and promote the European dimension in geographical education and teaching about the countries of Europe as a contribution towards the development of a European dimension in education. Members were geography teacher associations and geographical associations from around Europe. Presidents of these associations or their representatives attended

1665-456: The network included universities and research centres, companies and NGOs as well as teacher training and other education bodies like Ministries of Education. Many of those who participated in the work of HERODOT are still actively collaborating in follow up activities, project and meetings. The idea to establish a European Geography association that supported not only teachers and educators, but also geographers working in other professions came as

1710-564: The regions. Source: This region is located in Northern Europe around the Baltic Sea. Entities that belong there are situated in: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia and Sweden. The countries in this region that currently don't have active entities are Iceland and Latvia. The Eastern Region is the largest geographic region in EGEA. Part of this region are the entities of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria,

1755-502: The use of ICT in teaching geography in school education. The project was coordinated by Karl Donert at Liverpool Hope University. At the Liverpool meeting of EUROGEO in 2001, members of the association decided to apply for a project to share news and information about the state and status of Geography in Europe. The project produced a Web site, interactive maps of Europe as well as teaching and training resources in different languages. Henk Meijer decided to stand down and in 2002 and during

1800-409: The village that the children from Heeg at primary school all used to learn English. In 2009 a reconstruction of the ship that used to sail eel to Londen was made, called Korneliske Ykes II. The oldest known name of the village is Hagekerke , that appears from a fake document dating from 1132. In other documents the name is spelled like Haghekercke or Hagakerke . Nobody is entirely sure about why

1845-434: The village was called that way. Some say the church (kerk) was surrounded by a hedge (haga). Others say it comes from an old Frisian word hag , which means the height the church was located. Later on in 1389 kerk disappeared from the name and in 1505 it became Heech , 74 years later it was just Heeg. Nowadays, Heeg is a known water sports center with a variety of marinas and shipyards, with Piersma shipyard for flat bottoms

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1890-561: The way European citizens view their relationship with the sea, by empowering them, as Ocean Literate citizens, to take direct and sustainable action towards a healthy ocean and seas, healthy communities and ultimately a healthy planet. EUROGEO has been coordinating since 2016 the YouthMetre Forward Looking Project that addresses EU Youth Priority 7 "Using e-participation as an instrument to foster young people's empowerment and active participation in democratic life". The aim

1935-525: The year are the congresses. Other annual events are national weekends and summer schools. In addition, entities organize their own events. The spectrum of content of these events reaches from scientific seminars or excursions to events where the main focus lies on getting together. A high popularity among EGEAns are exchanges between entities. Five congresses take place each year: four Regional Congresses in Spring, organized by one or more entities in each region, and

1980-661: Was coordinated by Liverpool Hope University and led by Karl Donert. HERODOT sought to improve the quality of learning and teaching in higher education and teacher training and address issues raised by the Bologna Process like quality assurance, the use of new technologies and research in geographical education. There were two phases of the project that ran from 2002 to 2005 and 2006–2009. A large number of publications were produced and many events were held around Europe dealing with issues relating to Geography in higher education and teacher training. Members of EUROGEO participated in

2025-417: Was founded in 1987 by students from universities in three main cities; Barcelona, Warszawa and Utrecht. The aim for the organisation was to allow students from varying European countries to exchange knowledge regarding the geography of the region. One year later, in 1988, EGEA was officially registered as a foundation with chair in Utrecht. In 1996 the first website of EGEA was launched. The homepage would become

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