Please make the maximum use of the ProGEO information sources: web site and the newsletter, to spread news and information, to announce your activities under ProGEO umbrella and to invite participation. They are intended to be used to inform ProGEO members and others of geoconservation activity in the countries, as well as to spread news of cross-border collaboration.

 

Coming events


ProGEO WG Northern Europe meeting 2010

ProGEO WG3 and the Polish Geological Institute organises a WG3 meeting and international Conference: Geodiversity, natural and cultural heritage of the Kaszuby region (Eastern Pomerania, Poland), 6–10 September 2010, Gdansk, Poland. Please read the second circular.


ProGEO WG Southwestern Europe meeting and International Conference on Geoevents, Geological Heritage, and the Role of the IGCP

ProGEO WG Southwestern Europe meeting and international Conference: Geoevents, Geological Heritage, and the Role of the IGCP, 15–18 September, 2010 in Caravaca de la Cruz, southeastern Spain.
ProGEO members in Spain, France, Portugal and Italy are welcomed on this web page: http://www.ugr.es/~mlamolda/congresos/geoevents/progeo.html
Please visit the conference web site: http://www.ugr.es/~mlamolda/congresos/geoevents/welcome.html
The second circular is also available: second circular.


Promoting geoconservation in South Eastern Europe - Geoparks

The Carpathian Balkan Geological Association, CBGA, invites all who are working on geoconservation and promotion of geological heritage to participate at the meeting and the Special Session 29 "Promoting geoconservation in South Eastern Europe - Geoparks" that will take place during the 19th Congress of of the CBGA, 23–26 September 2010 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The Organizing Committee would like to clarify the following:
1. Deadline for full paper submission is now extended to the 31 December 2009, being also the date for early registration.
2. Deadline for abstract submission is the 30 April 2010.
3. The S29 session welcomes both full papers or articles.
4. After communication with the Editors of GEOHERITAGE journal, Springer, it has been arranged that selected articles will be invited to participate in a Special Issue after peer review.

The second circular has already been announced. Please have the above changes in point 1 in mind when reading the 2nd circular. Please visit the Congress site http://www.cbga2010.org and learn more about the 33 Special and 12 General sessions of the meeting. Please read the S29 description, the Abstract Submission Form and the second circular .


1st international Geoconservation Symposium of Turkey and Southeastern European Countries ProGEO Working Group (WG1) Meeting

JEMIRKO, the Turkish Association for Conservation of Geological Heritage, invites us all to this conference at Firat University at Elazig in Turkey, 15–19 September 2010.

See web site at http://web.firat.edu.tr/jeokoruma/eng/default.asp?id=1 See also poster and invitation.


Meetings on EGN and GGN geoparks

The coming events and meetings of the European Geoparks Network (EGN) are announced on their web site http://www.europeangeoparks.org/.
The coming events and meetings of the Global Geoparks Network (GGN) are announced on their web site http://www.globalgeopark.org/publish/portal1/tab59/.