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19 October - 23 October, 2020
ONLINE RESCHEDULED - Geospatial Technologies for Monitoring Water- and Health-related SDGs

How can geospatial technologies and remote sensing monitor the progress towards SDGs relater to water and health? With the recent adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the call by UN Secretary General for a “revolution” in the use of data for sustainable development, geospatial technologies have tremendous potential to efficiently monitor SDGs progress.

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26 October - 30 October, 2020
ONLINE RESCHEDULED - Innovations in Disaster and Climate Risk Reduction

How can the information and communication technologies (ICTs) empower decision makers and citizens to play a proactive role in management and effective response to natural disasters? The Innovations in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) workshop will highlight the recent advances in ICTs and their impact on decision making.

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11 January - 8 February, 2021
Bridging ICTs and the Environment - Mapping the World with QGIS
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) became essential tools not only in academic research but also in our daily life. GIS includes (but not limited to) mechanisms of geographic data collection, storage, visualization and analysis. The range of available technologies and application areas is wide and the choice of solution depends on issues concerned and level of computer literacy.
 
The present course introduces geospatial data visualization (mapping) using qGIS, the most popular open-source free GIS package.
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11 January - 8 February, 2021
Bridging ICTs and the Environment - Monitoring Climate Change Impact Using GEE
Every hour numerous satellites generate hundreds of images of Earth surface, capturing multiple aspects of anthropogenic activities as well as environmental processes. For many years having access to, analyzing and interpreting these petabytes of information (very Big Data) was a privilege of a handful of experts.
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29 June - 8 July, 2020
CANCELLED - Constitution-building in Africa

History has seen several waves of constitution-building in the 20th century with an unparalleled boom starting in the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And while experts recently announced the end of this boom in new constitutions after the Cold War, the world is witnessing another wave of constitution-building, this time predominately in Africa. Quite prominent have been the dynamics in the Maghreb as a result of the Arab spring that have recently extended to Algeria and Sudan.

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18 January - 22 January, 2021
Cultures of Dissent in Eastern Europe (1945-1989): Research Approaches in the Digital Humanities - Online
The course is co-hosted by the Blinken Open Society Archives, CEU’s progressive hub for digital Cold War history and a natural home for scholarship conducted in this area. Our first 2019 course already based its demo datasets on digitized content from the Blinken OSA collections: records of the Radio Free Europe research institute, and of RFE’s telex communication between New York and Munich in the 1960s.
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22 June - 28 June, 2020
ONLINE - Bridging ICTs and the Environment
Decision-makers are faced with the constant challenge of maintaining access to and understanding new technologies and data, as information and communication technologies (ICTs) are constantly evolving and as more data is becoming available. Despite continually improving technologies, informed decision-making is being hindered by inadequate attention to enabling conditions, e.g. a lack of in-service education and professional training.
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27 July - 30 July, 2020
ONLINE - Green Industrialization: Pathways towards Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development
In many countries, Industrial production and consumption patterns outpace the renewal capacity of natural resources and the capacity of governments to manage waste products. These trends in resource use and energy consumption indicate that current forms of industrial production damages the health of natural resources, and risks undermining the social and economic development benefits achieved thus far. This calls for shifting to green and more sustainable approaches needed to satisfy the needs of the present- without comprising the needs of future generations.
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6 July - 10 July, 2020
ONLINE - Summer School in Latin and Greek Codicology and Palaeography

Course description

The Summer School is an intensive, real time (CET), fully interactive online course. It comprises two morning sessions and one afternoon session. With a focus on intensive Latin and Greek palaeography classes in parallel tracks, it also provides instruction in textual criticism and diplomatics. It includes thematic lectures, assignments, introduction to online resources, a palaeography exam and an opportunity for consultation. It gives a certificate of attendance and ECTS credits.
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22 June - 30 June, 2020
ONLINE RESCHEDULED - Cultures of Dissent in Eastern Europe (1945-1989): Research Approaches in the Digital Humanities

This 7-day seminar in digital humanities research methods is designed to expose a new generation of scholars in Cold War history and culture to methods of analysis and discovery involving computational techniques. Designed and run by NEP4DISSENT (New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent, nep4dissent.eu), COST Action 16213, the inspiration for the course is built around the transfer of knowledge from technologists and data scientists to humanists.

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