4th International Conference "Crisis Management Days", Velika Gorica, May 25 and 26, 2011

The 4th International Conference “Crisis Management Days” (DKU 2011) was organized by the University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica in Velika Gorica on May 25 and 26, 2011. The first conference on this subject was held in 2008. The University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica was founded six years ago and it is the first higher education institution in Croatia offering systematic education of crisis management

Miljenko Lapaine dobitnik priznanja Međunarodnoga kartografskog društva ICA Honorary Fellowship

The International Cartographic Association (ICA) awards the Honorary Fellowship recognition to internationally reputable car­tog­ra­phers who made significant con­tri­bu­tion to ICA activities.The 29th International Cartographic Conference and 18th ICA General Assembly were held in Tokyo from July 15 to 20, 2019. A­wards for best maps, best children's drawings and recognitions were handed out at the closing ceremo­ny. The ICA Honorary Fellowship recognitions were awarded to Evangelos Livieratos and Miljenko Lapaine.Međunarodno kartografsko dru­štvo (International Cartographic As­so­ciation – ICA) dodjeljuje priznanje ICA Honorary Fellowship kartografima međunarodne reputacije koji su dali poseban doprinos radu ICA-e.U Tokiju su od 15. do 20. srpnja 2019. održane 29. međunarodna kartografska konferencija i 18. generalna skupština ICA-e. Na završnoj svečano­sti dodijeljene su nagrade za najbolje karte, najbolje dječje likovne ra­do­ve i uručena priznanja pojedincima. Pri­znanje ICA Honorary Fellowship do­dijeljeno je Evangelosu Livieratosu i Miljenku Lapaineu

Priča o izbjegličkoj krizi u Europi kroz objektiv kartografije

By Students in the Multimedia Cartography course at Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb in Academic year 2015/16A compelling multimedia narrative story of the Syrian refugee crisis across Europe (www.geof.unizg.hr/~akuvezdic/MultimediaCartography-Course2016.html) was envisioned by a group of graduate students enrolled in Multimedia Cartography, a course offered through the Faculty of Geodesy at University of Zagreb (eucenje.geof.unizg.hr). This multimedia visualization was created as an assignment for the course exercises during the summer 2016 academic term, in which students had to choose arbitrarily a subject to be visualized in a multimedia environment to explore the effects and components of a multimedia map.Studentski radovi iz predmeta Multimedijska kartografija na Geodetskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu u ak. god. 2015./2016.Studenti diplomskog studija na predmetu Multimedijska kartografija koji se predaje na Geodetskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (e-ucenje.geof.unizg.hr) osmislili su zanimljivumultimedijsku priču o sirijskoj izbjegličkoj krizi u Europi (www.geof.unizg.hr/~akuvezdic/MultimediaCartographyCourse2016.html). Multimedijski prikaz izrađen je u ljetnom semestru u ak. god. 2015/16. kao zadatak na vježbama u sklopu kojeg su studenti trebali proizvoljno izabrati temu koju će vizualizirati u multimedijskom okruženju s ciljem istraživanja mogućnosti i sastavnih dijelova multimedijske karte

The Story of Syrian Refugee Crisis Across Europe Through the Lens of Cartography

Studentski radovi iz predmeta Multimedijska kartografija na Geodetskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu u ak. god. 2015./2016. Studenti diplomskog studija na predmetu Multimedijska kartografija koji se predaje na Geodetskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (e-ucenje.geof.unizg.hr) osmislili su zanimljivu multimedijsku priču o sirijskoj izbjegličkoj krizi u Europi (www.geof.unizg.hr/~akuvezdic/MultimediaCartographyCourse2016.html). Multimedijski prikaz izrađen je u ljetnom semestru u ak. god. 2015/16. kao zadatak na vježbama u sklopu kojeg su studenti trebali proizvoljno izabrati temu koju će vizualizirati u multimedijskom okruženju s ciljem istraživanja mogućnosti i sastavnih dijelova multimedijske karte.By Students in the Multimedia Cartography course at Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb in Academic year 2015/16 A compelling multimedia narrative story of the Syrian refugee crisis across Europe (www.geof.unizg.hr/~akuvezdic/MultimediaCartography-Course2016.html) was envisioned by a group of graduate students enrolled in Multimedia Cartography, a course offered through the Faculty of Geodesy at University of Zagreb (eucenje.geof.unizg.hr). This multimedia visualization was created as an assignment for the course exercises during the summer 2016 academic term, in which students had to choose arbitrarily a subject to be visualized in a multimedia environment to explore the effects and components of a multimedia map

Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb at the Festival of Science, April 11–16, 2011

The Festival of Science has been organized for the ninth year in a row in order to popularize science among pupils, students and other citizens. This year's Festival was held in eight Croatian cities – Mali Lošinj, Omiš, Osijek, Rijeka, Sinj, Split, Rab and Zagreb from April 11 to 16, 2011. Visitors were offered numerous events, such as interesting and educational lectures, workshops, exhibitions, movie projections, presentations, contests, etc

Results of the 2017 “We Love Maps” Children’s World Map Competition in Croatia

The Barbara Petchenik award was initiated by the International Cartographic Society (ICA) in 1993 in memory of Barbara Petchenik, a past vice-president of the ICA and cartographer who worked with maps and children her entire life. The awards are presented every two years during the International Cartographic Conference, if possible at least one to every continent, with special attention paid to the age of the children producing the drawings. The goals of the competition include promoting children’s creative representation of the world in graphic form, and improving their cartographic and environmental perception. The Croatian Cartographic Society conducted the competition in Croatia in 2017, and 306 children’s works of art were submitted. A committee consisting of Prof. Ines Krasić and Assist. Prof. Igor Čabraja from the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb, Prof. Dr. Miljenko Lapaine and Assist. Prof. Ivka Kljajić from the Faculty of Geodesy of the University of Zagreb, selected the six best children’s drawings on the topic “We Love Maps” which were exhibited at the 28th International Cartographic Conference in Washington D.C., 2–7 July 2017

Festival znanosti 2017, Promatrajmo Zemlju uz Copernicus, Zagreb, 26. travnja 2017.

The Science Festival, a manifestation that has been continuously organized in Croatia since 2003, is intended for pupils, students and other citizens with the aim of encouraging and improving the dialogue between the scientific com­munity and the public.This year's theme of the Festival was "Time" (time physical, psychological, historical, meteorological, astronomical...).More about participating in the Science Festival, as well as the other activities, events and news about the Co­per­nicus program in Croatia can be found on the website of the Copernicus Relay and Academy Office Croatia http://science. geof.unizg.hr/copernicus/.Festival znanosti, manifestacija koja se u Hrvatskoj neprekidno organizira od 2003. godine, namijenjena je učenicima, studentima i ostalim građanima s ciljem poticanja i poboljšanja dijaloga znanstvene zajednice i javnosti.Ovogodišnja tema Festivala bila je „Vrijeme“ (vrijeme fizikalno, psihološko, povijesno, meteorološko, astronomsko…).Više o sudjelovanju na Festivalu znanosti, ali i ostalim aktivnostima, događajima i novostima o programu Copernicus u Hrvatskoj može se pročitati na web stranici Copernicus Relay i Academy ureda Hrvatska (CROC) http://science.geof.unizg.hr/copernicus/

Rezultati natječaja za dječju kartu svijeta „Volimo karte“ u Hrvatskoj za 2017.

The Barbara Petchenik award was initiated by the International Cartographic Society (ICA) in 1993 in memory of Barbara Petchenik, a past vice-president of the ICA and cartographer who worked with maps and children her entire life. The awards are presented every two years during the International Cartographic Conference, if possible at least one to every continent, with special attention paid to the age of the children producing the drawings. The goals of the competition include promoting children’s creative representation of the world in graphic form, and improving their cartographic and environmental perception.The Croatian Cartographic Society conducted the competition in Croatia in 2017, and 306 children’s works of art were submitted.A committee consisting of Prof. Ines Krasić and Assist. Prof. Igor Čabraja from the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb, Prof. Dr. Miljenko Lapaine and Assist. Prof. Ivka Kljajić from the Faculty of Geodesy of the University of Zagreb, selected the six best children’s drawings on the topic “We Love Maps” which were exhibited at the 28th International Cartographic Conference in Washington D.C., 2–7 July 2017.Nagradu Barbara Petchenik pokrenulo je Međunarodno kartografsko društvo (International Carto­gra­phic Association – ICA) 1993. godine kao uspomenu na Barbaru Petchenik, dopredsjednicu toga društva i kartografkinju koja je cijeli život radila s kartama i djecom. Nagrade se dodjeljuju svake druge godine za vrijeme međunarodne kartografske konferencije, po mogućnosti barem jedna za svaki kontinent, s posebnom pažnjom posvećenom dobi djeteta koje je nacrtalo crtež. Ciljevi natjecanja su promoviranje dječjeg kreativnog prikazivanja svijeta u grafičkom obliku, poboljšanje njihove kartografske per­cepcije i percepcije okoline.Natjecanje u Hrvatskoj provelo je Hrvatsko kartografsko društvo. Na natječaj je stiglo 306 dječjih likovnih radova.Povjerenstvo u sastavu red. prof. art. Ines Krasić i doc. art. Igor Čabraja s Akademije likovnih umjetnosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, prof. dr. sc. Miljenko Lapaine i doc. dr. sc. Ivka Kljajić s Geodetskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu izabralo je šest najboljih dječjih radova na temu "Volimo karte" (We Love Maps) koji će biti izloženi na izložbi dječjih radova u sklopu 28. međunarodne kartografske konferencije u Washingtonu D.C., 2–7. srpnja 2017