IYPE Hungarian National Committee Meeting

The building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2008

The interdisciplinary Hungarian IYPE Committee met to evaluate of the National Opening Event of the International Year of the Planet Earth today. Chaired by Dr. Károly Brezsnyánszky, the Committee discussed the follow-on actions including important international and domestic conferences such as the HUNGEO (ELTE, Budapest, last week of August), as well as the joint event of the IYPE and the Year of the Bible (Sopron, October 16-18, 2008). The recommendation of  HUNAGI representative to consider to take part on the Digital Earth Summit hosted by the GFZ in Potsdam by a HAS delegation under the aegis of IYPE was unanimously  together with the idea to integrate the anticipated  FAO/CEN/ISO conference to be held in Budapest in December in the series of the IYPE programmes.