UNIGIS Honourary Award
At the UNIGIS meeting held in Krakow in 2005, an honorary professorship was given to Dr. Jim Petch, who played a crucial role in the establishment and growth of the UNIGIS network and who is currently working as Head of Distributed Learning (Teaching Learning and Assessment Office) of the University of Manchester.

GIS Day
Nov 16 2005
GIS Day is a grassroots event that formalizes the practice of geographic information systems (GIS) users and vendors of opening their doors to schools, businesses, and the general public to showcase real-world applications of this important technology. The event is principally sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Association of American Geographers, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the United States Geological Survey, The Library of Congress, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett–Packard, and ESRI.

AGI 2005
November 8 - 10 2005, Chelsea Village, London, UK
This is the largest GI focused conference and exhibition in the UK and includes the highest quality papers and plenary sessions. Industry sectors incorporated include transport, utilities, environment, central government, local government, business, technology and health. UNIGIS UK will be represented at the conference and the exhibition at Stand 47 and will welcome visits from past, present and potential students.

AfricaGIS 2005
Oct 30 - Nov 4, 2005, CSIR International Convention Centre, Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa
The theme of the 7th Africa GIS conference is "Beyond talk: Geo-information working for Africa". With this theme, the conference hopes to encourage contributions to the conference emphasising what has been achieved through more effective geo-information management and utilisation in Africa.

Workshop on Grid Middleware and Geospatial Standards for Earth System Science Data
Sept 6 - Sept 8 2005, e-Science Institute, 15, South College Street, Edinburgh
This workshop will review developments in the application of Grid middleware and geospatial standards to interoperability for earth systems science data. A focus will be on the specifications of ISO TC211 and the Open Geospatial Consortium, and Grid technology solutions investigated by partners to the Australia-UK collaboration, AUKEGGS, and other UK-based researchers.
Day Three is a full-day workshop on the Geography Markup Language (GML) to be given by GML co-editor, Simon Cox, of CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Australia.

International Summer School, Hungary
Aug 12 - 19 2005, Székesfehérvár, Hungary

ESRI International User Conference
July 25–29 2005, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California. UniGIS tutors will be present at the conference.

22nd International Cartographic Conference
July 9-16 2005, A Coruña, Spain
The theme is "mapping approaches into a changing world".

AGI North Spring Conference
June 15 2005, Manchester Met University, Manchester, UK.
N.B. This meeting has been postponed until autumn 2005.

GISPlanet 2005
May 30-June 2, 2005, Estoril, Portugal
Following on after the AGILE conference, GIS Planet 2005 will continue the strong tradition begun by GISPLANET 98, bringing together the world-wide GIS research and applications community in a forum for discussion of GIS from a global perspective.

8th Agile Conference on GI
May 26-28, 2005, Estoril, Portugal
The organization’s mission is to promote academic teaching and research on geographic information science by representing the interests of those involved in GI - teaching and research at the national and European level - and the continuation and extension of existing networking activities.

Henk Scholten honour
On Friday April 29th, 2005, Henk Scholten, CEO of Geodan and Course Leader of UNIGIS Amsterdam, received a Royal Decoration from the acting mayor of the Dutch municipality Drechterland, mrs. A.G.M. van de Vondervoort. This Royal Dutch decoration, Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau, was conferred on him for his significant contribution to geo-information, both on a national and international level.

AGILE- Education
On November 10, 2004, the new web site for the AGILE Working Group on Education was made public.
The Working Group on Education of AGILE, the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories of Europe, has around 40 members. Everybody who is interested in the working group and who will actively participate is most welcome.
The site should become an information source for everyone interested in education in the field of GeoInformation, and is certainly not limited to members of the WG only: Everybody is welcome to view all the information on this site, registered members of the working group can add to and comment on (most of) the content.

GeoSpatial World 2005
April 26th - 28th 2005, San Francisco, California, USA

Intergraph’s Education Symposium 2005
April 27, 2005 at San Francisco, California USA
This event will include an Education Panel session, chaired by Professor Michael Goodchild from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and will include Ignacio Guerrero, Executive Vice President, Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions Product Center; international panelists from EAST and UNIGIS; along with notable award winning academics Farrell Jones of CADGIS, Louisiana State University and John Moore, Burlington County Institute.
The symposium will once again offer an education network session to provide a forum for discussion and interaction among peers while learning about the latest Intergraph Education Program offerings.
Presentations from around the world will include regional education models in Mexico and the USA, information on NGA grant opportunities, and innovative approaches to K-12 education.

Map Middle East 2005
April 23-25 2005, Al Bustan Rotana Hotel, Dubai, UAE
This is the 1st Annual Middle East Conference and Exhibition on Geospatial Information, Technology and Applications and is a joint initiative of GIS Development (India), Dubai Municipality (UAE) and CSDMS (India). The theme of the conference and exhibition is "Geospatial Information and Knowledge Economy".

AGI Technical SIG
Feb 10th 2005, London UK
The Association for Geographic Information Technical Special Interest Group will be running its second seminar on 10th February in London on the subject of introducing GI interoperability issues. In similar fashion to previous events, it is intended to provide a broad overview of business and technical issues from a technology-neutral (and vendor-neutral) perspective. Leading speakers from the UK and Europe have been invited to offer their experience.

Map India 2005
Feb 7th -9th 2005, Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi, India.

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