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 Working Group/NW Europe Meeting: Geological heritage and geoconservation at the north
western edge of Europe.

We are invited to this working group meeting 16–20 September 2013, in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Abstract dead line is 15 July. Please see the provisional programme and the 1st circular.

The XX Congress of Carpathian Balkan Geological Association, CBGA 2014

The Organizing Committee of CBGA 2014 would like to invite you to attend the XX Congress of Carpathian Balkan Geological
Association, a jubilee Congress, which will be held from 24 to 26 September 2014 in Tirana, Albania.

Please visit http://www.cbga2014.org/.

GeoTreat

The Geological Survey of Sweden invites you for a workshop with the international GeoTreat Mobile Tourist App community, in
Uppsala, Sweden, May 14–15, 2013.

Please read this invitation.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly.
Special Session: Geodiversity and geoheritage in geoscience research (session SSS6.3/GM1.5).

Vienna, Austria, 7–12 April 2013.
Convener: Emmanuel Reynard. Co-Conveners: Hanneke van den Ancker, José Brilha, Erik Cammeraat.

Deadline to submit abstracts: 9 January 2013. Please visit http://www.egu2013.eu/.

12th European Geopark Conference. Geoparks: an innovative approach to raise public awareness
about geohazard, climate change and the sustainable use of our natural resources.

Cilento and Vallo di Diano Geopark is hosting the 12th EGN conference, in Ascea-Velia-Elea, southern Italy, 4–6 September 2013.

Please see the first circular, and visit http://egnconference2013.cilentoediano.it/index.asp?ref=pagine&id=109&lan=ita .

International Conference. Unique Geosites of Russia: Conservation and recreation potential.

The Federal Agency of Mineral Resources and VSEGEI invite us to attend this conference in St Petersburg, Russia, 27–29 June 2013.

New dates! Please see the invitation letter and the first circular.

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/english/
and on Unesco's web site http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/earth-sciences/geoparks/.