THE WORLD GIS DAY 2023
Date: (15-11-2023)
THE WORLD GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS DAY
With a recorded number of participants, Bulgaria celebrates
THE WORLD GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS DAY 2023
Under the title "With GIS, we create a more sustainable world together", Valentin Mundrov, Deputy Minister of e-Governance, and Nikolay Naydenov, Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works, officially opened the largest GIS event in the country.
Especially for GIS Day, Philip Mott, General Director of Esri Europe, arrived in Bulgaria to present global GIS trends and European good practices in the use of GIS technologies.
Katarina Clemente from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) took part in the conference on the occasion of World GIS Day in Bulgaria. She led the agency's team of GIS experts and presented the latest developments in GIS applications for integrated European border management.
Some of the most significant and innovative GIS systems and applications implemented in the past year in our country by various organizations were also presented.
At the end of the solemn ceremony, the annual awards for special achievements in the field of geographic information systems were presented.
News
CMDR COE FEBRUARY Forthcoming events- In 3-7 of February experts from the CMDR COE team will take part in the Final Planning Conference of the SABER GUARDIAN ′14 Exercise, organized by the US EUCOM and BGR LANDFORCE.
The purpose of the exercise is to train and educate civilian and military participants in planning and conducting an UN mandated Chapter VII Peace Operation/Crisis Response Operation, based on a Comprehensive Approach, and focusing on co-operation and co-ordination within an unstable environment, involving all stakeholders. The principal exercise focus is the civilian-military cooperation and coordination. The scenario supports exercising a wide range of peace operations functions (e.g. rule of law, humanitarian, etc.). The CMDR COE will contribute to achieving the exercise objectives by providing subject matter expert support in the CMDR area and by organizing distributed point for White cell.
- In 11-13 February 2014 the Civil-Military Interaction: Disaster Preparedness and Response Workshop will take place in Sofia. The workshop is sponsored by the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Bulgaria and the CMDR COE. The workshop comprises lectures dedicated to NATO and EU Crisis Management, role of military in civil security, risk management, as well as discussions and tabletop exercise.
Internal CMDR COE Seminar on the Crisis in SyriaThe CMDR COE organised an internal seminar which was held on 20.12.2013. The main focus of the seminar was the crisis in Syria. The CMDR COE experts discussed issued related to the chronology of the crisis; the increased influx of refugees to neighbouring countries and Bulgaria; the positions of NATO, the UN and EU; the involvement of international humanitarian organisations etc.
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Visualizing Implications of Climate Change on Military Activities and Relationships was conductedOn 11-12 December 2013, the Crisis Management and Disaster Response Centre of Excellence (CMDR COE) co-hosted together with US European Command (USEUCOM) and the US embassy in Bulgaria the workshop Visualizing Implications of Climate Change on Military Activities and Relationships. The opening remarks were given by the Deputy Minister of Defence of Bulgaria, Mr. Ivan Ivanov, who welcomed the participants and underlined the importance of the topics that the workshop focused on.
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