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Central Croatia has been hit with two strong earthquakes on December 28th (5.3 on Richter scale) and on December 29th (6.3 on Richter scale) creating massive destruction in towns of Petrinja, Sisak and Glina, and even some damage in 50 km distant Zagreb...

4th GEOBIZ project progress meeting will be held on February 9th, 2021 starting at 14:00 hours and lasting 2 hours. The meeting will be online (via Zoom) and the access link for the meeting is below.

1st GEOBIZ PAC meeting was held online on December 2nd, 2020. Read more about the topic of the meeting in the notice.

Here you can find interesting and relevant document: Survey report - Academia-Business Survey on Needs and Cooperation in Field of Spatial Data Infrastructures (2020) This survey was undertaken as part of the Erasmus+ project BESTSDI – ‘Western Balkans Academic Education Evolution and Professional’s Sustainable Training for Spatial Data Infrastructures’ together with EuroSDR.

2nd progress meeting of the GEOBIZ project will be held on 14. and 17. September 2020. The meeting will be online, and the hosts are team from University of Zagreb. Draft Agenda cand be found below.

Copernicus Hackathon Graz is organized by the ESA Business Incubation Centre for Austria as part of the European Union’s Copernicus Programme. It will take place on 15th and 16th October 2020 online! If you are interested in participating in this EO hackathon, get to know interesting colleagues and mentors and compete for the prize fund of 4000 EUR. You can find more information and apply on the link below.

XIV International conference on Contemporary Theory and Practice in Construction – STEPGRAD 2020 was held in on-line mode on June 11th and 12th. Professor Branko Božić from University of Belgrade wrote, together with Dajana Todorović, Tanja Fržović from University of Banja Luka, project related paper: "Application of PBL model on study program of geodesy at The Faculty of Architecture, Civil engineering and Geodesy at the University of Banja Luka". The paper has been published in Proceedings of International conference on Contemporary Theory and Practice in Construction XIV (2020) (page 434-442).

Webinar Inter-project coaching scheduled for Wednesday, September 23. 2020. The webinar is an effort of different scientific groups from the water sector that aims to further discuss water resources management issues met through various implemented or on-going projects. It will involve several speakers from different universities and as part of the webinar, the GEOBIZ project will be presented.

In GIM International Magazine, well known international publication headline interview with Joep Crompvoets (Secretary General of EuroSDR) and Mick Cory (Director of Eurogeographics) has been published in March-April issue. The Directive on Open Data and the Re-use of Public-sector information which has been published in summer 2019 by the European Union is bringing many changes to the Geospatial Data Market. In the article, Joep Crompvoets and Mick Cory gave insight view in the consequences of this Directive, implication to public, and especially authoritative data and repercussions to the market.

GEOBIZ Project is a partner of GEA Internation Conference which will be held Online from 28. - 29. May, orginized by University of Montenegro. GEOBIZ project team will present the paper: Reducing gap between business and academia in introducing modern technologies – GEOBIZ project approach

1st progress meeting of the GEOBIZ project was successfully held from 4-6 May 2020. The meeting was held online via the Zoom platform, and the hosts were project partners from the University of Novi Sad. Although in this new format, a number of topics have been covered, and you can see a list of all the presentations in the agenda below.

GAUSS LTd, our partner on the GEOBIZ project, held on 11.03.2020. workshop at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Civil Engineering in Tuzla

From February 2-4, 2020, a three-day kick-off meeting of the project was held in Zagreb. How was the first day on the premises of the University of Zagreb you can see in the attached pictures.

The journal Geodetski glasnik invites all researchers, colleagues and readers interested in geodesy and other areas related to spatial information to publish their papers.